Our Ladybug's 1st Birthday is tomorrow, May 28th!!!

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Our Avery turns 1 tomorrow, on May 28th. It is a very happy and sad day all together for many reasons. I am happy to celebrate her birth, and also we signed out LOA this week, so she is ours and we are hers, a forever family!!

We just received confirmation from Fed Ex that our LOA has been received in China, so they will start to make our travel plans now, so we are much closer to going to get her and bringing her home. I'm sad that she will be in China for her 1st Birthday, when she has parents here that love her, and want to celebrate with her so much. I know she is well taken care of by the nannies at the welfare institute, but a love of a family is different and I wish for her to feel that, and know that we will never leave her. I am so thankful that someone found her on that riverbank and brought her to this place. I am so grateful that someone picked her up and saved her life and set her on this journey.  I am overjoyed that we have chosen this journey and it has led us to her.

All the coincidences that have happened during this journey, all the signs, if that's what you want to call them...we were meant for eachother. We were meant to be her parents, and her our daughter. Although the journey has had many, many, ups and downs, and twists and turns, fate has brought us together to be a family.

Being that it is going to be her 1st Birthday, I've been thinking about her biological parents lately. Do they remember that it's her Birthday? Do they think about her? What were the reasons they gave her up? Was it her special need? Were there other circumstances that lead them to their decision? I hope they know that we are here for her, and will love and take care of her, and she will be surrounded by a big loving family for the rest of her life. All of those questions Avery will ask us one day, and how will we answer? We will tell her what we know, and everything about her journey to us when she is old enough to handle it and to understand. We will find the grace and the words to tell her, and comfort her when these questions arise.

When Avery was found there was a note in her pocket that her parents put her birthday, and her Chinese given name on. We hope they have saved it for us (for her), so she will have that tie to her biological parents.

A lot of questions have been on my mind lately. I think it comes with the territory. I had a dream the other night about the day we will receive Avery...surreal.

It is so surreal to think that in a month we will have little feet thumping around the house. The change of a lifetime!! We are so ready for this and we want to wish our little ladybug Happy Birthday!!! We can't wait to meet you, and hold you, and hug you, and kiss you, and become a family at last!!

Happy 1st Birthday Avery Lin Niu Xuan Newton!! We are going to celebrate your birth here tomorrow, with family and cake and ice cream. I hope you can feel the love where you are and we are thinking about you constantly...until the day we meet very SOON!!

Wo Ai Ni Avery!!
Mommy & Daddy