OK - so we were DTC (Dossier to China) on 4/18...and now is the longest part of the wait...and I am seriously going buggy...it is too early to really do stuff, still waiting to decorate the room, got the bed spread, need to get the dressers and accessories...ughhhh...I hate waiting. In the mean time we have been having fun adventures with Mac. Last weekend we went to the Serenbe May Day Festival and it was great! Not too crowded, great gourmet food truck TexsTaco (tried all 4 different tacos - it is like Taqueria del Sol on wheels! King of Pops had their little cart there - Georgia Peach popsicles! Mac got to pet some sheep adn a baby pig and see a horse that his mother and father were too impatient to wait in line for him to ride. We said "bye bye horse".
They had really good bluegrass music and .really good margaritas and Mac's favorite - a dude that knew how to juggle! I don't even know if he was part of the festival but as you may know a BALL is all that matters in Mac's world...that and squirrels. So a dude that could take 3 colored balls and make them dance in teh air with out dropping them - I wish I could hire that guy to stand in my den and juggle while I cook dinner and do a load of laundry!
Maybe I can find a video of someone just standing there juggling...gotta check YouTube!
Sunday we went to Piedmont Park for a walk and let Mac play on the playground. Lucky for him he also found a squirrel that wasn't too shy!
This little critter loves graham crackers and Mac was in heaven!
I sent LuciQ a care package this week and a letter telling her about our Easter fun. I was going to only send care packages with stuff for the orphanage use or treats to be enjoyed at the orphanage and not stuff specifically for Luci...but I changed my mind (luxury of being a woman!).
Since we recently earned through the last pics and update that Luci has been in foster care since last Sept and not in the orphanage...and in every pic I have of her she is wearing something we sent in a previous care package or holding the doll we sent. So now that I know she is actually being given the stuff we are sending and she is not in the general orphanage population I feel better about sending her packages specific for her use...with cookies to share with her foster family! Here are the pics of the package we just sent...check out the precious Crocs!!!!
Picture Album with her cousins Molly and Cate, then a pic of her cousins Alex and Derrick and Baba and Mac, a pic of Mac and cousin Ty-Ty at Easter, and a pic of my family on the front porch at Easter.
Cute summer outfit - but I hear that the Chinese are notorious for bundling the crap out of their kids - even when it is sweltering outside so I am sure this cute little ensemble will get buried under a poofy coat. The other adoptive parents call them the clothing police becasue when Americans go over to get their kids the Chinese always chastize them for not having enough clothes on the kids. Luckily I don't know Chinese so I can just smile like a tourist!
So hopefuly she will this her package this week and hopefully we will get some pictures back in a few more weeks...so far we have been very lucky and gotten pics back with every care package. Those pics are the key to my sanity during the wait!
This weekend I am so excited that we will be attending a picnic at Donna's house for adoptive parents from China that live here in the Atlanta area. I can't wait to meet the amazing kiddos (and parents!) that I have only been able to read about in blog land!
