Through another adopting family we learned of a care package company serving families like us. LadybugsnLove allows you to purchase different values of packages to send to your child all via the Internet. What a great idea. This company is run by a lady in China who communicates directly and regularly with a number of orphanages. We were like kids in a candy shop not knowing what to buy, but very excited about the process. Part of this package deal includes a letter written by the sender up to 500 words to your child which she would then translates into Chinese to send along with the other purchased items. As a result Jin received books, candy and nuts (to share with his Nannies), pictures of us with captions, our letter. Then we decided to go all out with a CAKE. We thought this treat would be great since it would be shared with his friends. We also included a disposable camera for some cake eating pictures and hopefully some of his orphanage for us to see and keep for him.
Here is the cake. It is amazing and quite beautiful. The writing on it reads Happy Birthday. Apparently, birthdays are not celebrated in the orphanage so this was a very big treat, for sure. When Jon Campbell saw the pictures he was quite upset and started to cry because he wanted to eat the cake with Jin. Hearing him say that brought tears to my eyes. Jon Campbell is very excited about his brother's arrival. He calls him Brother Jin.
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