7 more sleeps!

It's pretty difficult for children to grasp the concept of time for quite a while. Since Grace was about 2 or 3 we explain time to her with 'how many sleeps' it is until the event occurs. Today it's '7 more sleeps' until we leave for China. Lot's going on here. Just have last minute things to add to suitcases (3 of them each weighing in under 44 lbs. per the in China rules for flights). Dan and Grace each are carrying on a backpack, me a small lightweight messenger bag. We will have our hotels do our laundry so we don't have to bring clothes for 2 solid weeks. I've received more pictures of William Michael from his foster home. These are him opening the package we sent. We sent a t-shirt from the movie 'Cars' on it and you can see that he loves it and decided to put it on immediately. He also is playing with Elmo and looked at the photo album we sent and I guess he showed it to his little friends there too. This all doesn't seem real to me sometimes but it sure will be next week when we take that 15 hour flight from Chicago OHare to Hong Kong. We leave Thursday July 17th, arrive in Hong Kong late afternoon the 18th. Sat. the 19th we fly to Fuzhou. Sunday we meet our son. In Fuzhou we will do some sightseeing and hopefully visit Will's foster home and orphanage. After his adoption is registered and notarized, we get his passport and travel to Guangzhou for his medical exam and then get his US visa on July 30 (my birthday) Can't imagine a better birthday gift!