Answered Prayer!

Today was momentous!  Toni, the Visiting Orphans team leader, and Ying a member of our team showed Luke the photo album we sent and introduced us as his family.  It went really well!  Here is Toni's email:

What fun today was in sharing your photo album with Luke! I video taped and another woman on our team who is a professional photographer (and adoptive mom) snapped many photos of Ying reading the book to him.  We knew he was aware of the pending adoption, but he did not know it was your family. He listened very intently and nodded when Ying would ask him if he understood. He would get excited when he saw his photo in the book and wanted to flip the pages ahead to see more of himself. He was also excited about your dog;)  He also loved the little monkey you sent, then he got down and ran off to play.

I had Ying ask the director to keep the book somewhere safe, but to have someone read it with him regularly. I'm sure Jing would take that in a heartbeat. I guess a few days ago Jing told one of the nannies that she would be sad when he left, because she would not have any one to play with. I say she won't have any one to play with because she is mean to everyone!

I can't post video from here, so I will have to share that and the photos with you later. For now here are a few others from today. He and Isaac were being silly with the wheelchair. In the group photo, the director was excitedly sharing your book with Juan. Juan is now a reporter for one of the local papers. She asked the director for an exclusive on your adoption story and he laughed!

It was an honor to share today...brought tears to my eyes.

PS. The other little boy in the pictures, Isaac, is being adopted by a first time mommy and daddy in St. Charles!  They a best buddies and they will be reunited. God is good!