Our agency allows one care package to be sent as we wait. We had a BLAST finding stuff to send Danny (we actually sent it in December and amazingly enough were able to find 3 short sleeve shirts to choose from!). John and Ryan each chose a shirt and socks. We splurged on a recordable teddy bear from Hallmark and recorded a "Hello - we love you!" message to Danny so he could hear our voices when he squeezes the bear's tummy. I made a photo book with pictures of all of us, the kittens, our house, and the back yard, all with captions both in English and his native language (found a great translation web site!). Then we added Superman pajamas complete with cape, two toy cars, and a ball. We also added some candy cane hand soap (the boys chose the scent), extra batteries for the bear and a screwdriver, and a note to the foster mama. And believe it or not, I managed to squeeze it all into the child size fire truck back pack! (Although a couple weeks later in our agency's monthly update, we were requested to not over stuff the back packs - oops!)
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| Sending some love to our boy! |
Our hope as he opened the back back was that he would be excited and happy to see the toys, not too freaked out by pictures of a white American Mom and Dad, and comforted that two older brothers have the same color skin as he does.
We bought two more of the same back back - we'll take one with us when we travel and the boys will fill one with stuff for him for when we all come home. Hoping that seeing the same back pack will be a calming sense of familiar for him.
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