Thanks CoCo!

Well, here's our translated letter to the orphanage which will be included in our care package. It basically says that we're happy, grateful and honored. It also lists the contents of the package and requests that all items be returned to us and the camera we're including to be used and returned.

One of the Chinese high school students in our town translated it for us. She said she also teaches Chinese classes at the library and Jeff and I think that would be a nice thing not only for us to sign up for, but for Lili as well. It would be a shame for her to lose that language. She told us to make sure to bring Lili in to their restaurant so she could meet her. She's such a nice girl!

We hope to have our care package sent out by the end of this week.

I was toying with the idea of having a "care package company" send one out for us, but you have to send a standard package, you can't pick out your own stuff to send. The prices were OK compared to what we found FedEx would cost (around $100!)

We were told by several people who have sent things to send it by the good ol' USPS. It costs about $11 and arrives usually in a week. There haven't seemed to be any problems doing it that way, so that's what we're going to do.

Tonight, we get to take some photos for the album we're going to send. Hopefully we won't look too scary!

Here's a list of what we're sending:

• a blanket, washed in our detergent and slept with for one night
• a Mickey Mouse stuffed doll
• some girly trinkets--necklace, magic wand, etc.
• photo album with pics of each of us, us together, our house, etc.
• the letter to the nannies/staff
• some stickers
• disposable camera

I think that's about it. We thought about sending an outfit, but I don't think we're going to do that....we may change our minds.

I really hope that Lili gets everything in the package. It would be nice if everything was returned to us on adoption day, but if not, we'll consider it a donation. I just PRAY we get the camera back with ALL of the pictures taken. That would be so priceless to us.

I just can't wait to go. I just want to be there. Not looking forward to GETTING there, though!

I want my daughter!! She's OURS now. Let's go CCAA!!