Zoë Update

Not much new to report. We're waiting for China to give us permission to travel. We're still hoping to head over in the middle of October. In the meantime, we're trying to get ready for her arrival. Her room is almost set up. For those who've visited us here, Zoë will be in the sunroom off the master. We took out the big wardrobe and have put in a carpet, comfy chair, etc.

We also sent her a care package yesterday, including a doll, a soft album filled with photos of us and a couple of cameras so hopefully we'll get some photos as keepsakes of her early months in China. We included a letter to the orphanage staff asking some questions about what her life has been like thus far - trying to figure out what she will want to know when she gets old enough to start asking questions.

I finally got around to converting Zoë's referral photos to jpg format, so now I can post them in the body of a blog post.