Another photo of Lily Zi Tao

Well everything is moving forward with the adoption of our Lily. We've signed all the papers and she is officially ours now. We know when we travel and when will get her in our arms. Because Lily is in the south of China we will fly into Hong Kong, then onto Guanghzhou in Guangdong province and then to Beijing. We will get to see a lot of the country and will experience lots of different weather so that will pose a packing challenge.

We also are preparing a care package for Lily. We get to send her a few things like a toy, our family photo (just a few things that will fit into the tissue box). Our agency will send the packages in late December to be distributed. My guess is that they may let the children look at the photos or hang the photo in the crib so when we meet we might not seem like strangers.