Wednesday, May 3, 2006
5:08 PM
One really amazing thing about the orphanage that Cupcake is in is that there are a lot of people going through, both adoptive parents and volunteers. We've been able to get in touch with a few of these people and get some information on how Cupcake is doing and what her personality is like. Vietnam doesn't really give out "personality snippets" with referrals like China does; when we accepted the referral, we didn't know if Cupcake likes being held, likes to be outside, or "likes soft cakes" (that seems like a popular one for China). So to have people who have spent quality time with Cupcake tell us what she's like is SUCH a tremendous blessing. To have this access to our child right now is... well, there are no words. If we can't be there, knowing people who ARE there is the next best thing. It definitely helps with the wait to know she's doing well and is being taken care of.
So far we have heard that Cupcake is "serene", "lovely", "beautiful, chunky and healthy." My favorite information about her came this morning from a volunteer: "we all love her, she is sooo adorable. She is a very happy girl. Recently she was moved in to the toddler room because we had 3 new born babies come in and since she is one of the older babies she got moved out. She was sick last week so we gave her extra care, but she is better now and back to her normal happy self. She has started crawling pretty well which is really neat to witness." I'm so sad we are missing her first crawls, but I keep reminding myself there are a lot of other milestones we will witness. I'm just so thrilled that she is growing and doing well. That she's happy...
One day at a time, right?
In the meantime I have started Cupcake's Lifebook/Scrapbook. I started yesterday afternoon and got one page done. I'm now working on her referral photos page. It's a lot of fun, but I really hate measuring and using the paper cutter (I'm used to using "crop" in Photoshop) so that part kinda frustrates me.
