Care Packages

As I mentioned in my last post we get to send care packages to our kids every three months.  We put a lot of thought into these little packages as they are the only connection we have with our children at this point.  Our agency has some pretty strict guidelines, the packages are to be flat, weigh no more than a pound and must fit in a gallon size Ziploc bag. Meeting these guidelines is a challenge!

We sent our first care package back in July when we officially "accepted" our kids. We sent them small photo albums with pictures introducing ourselves and our families.  We also sent them letters telling them about ourselves and how excited we are to meet them...and we signed them "mom" and "dad"!  We sent them blankets and we sent our little girl a small doll and our little boy a small airplane.  We also sent a disposable camera in hopes that their foster mom will take some pictures of them and give the camera back to us when we travel over!


We hope that these blankets will be good transitional objects that they
can get attached to and then bring with them when they begin life with us.

Marc and I had so much fun making Build-A-Bears for our kids' second packages, which we sent in late October.  We recorded a little message in Thai and in English in each of them, that we hope will help them start to get use to our voices.
 

Marc giving the bear some clothes!

Here's a picture before they were crammed into their bags!

We just sent our third package last week.  Since our last package didn't exactly meet the guidelines, we tried extra hard not to send too much this time.  I picked out these toys for them while I was out Christmas shopping.  

I can just picture our little boy pushing these cars around in the dirt!

And our little girl carrying this purse around! 

 All ready to go!

 Sent with much love to our precious little ones!