Okay, I'm a day late posting on the blog, but yesterday was our little Minsy's 4th birthday. It is her last one in China. Next month (hopefully!) she'll be here! Yesterday we had a little bitty celebration here for her at home with cake (no ice cream -- I'm trying to manage this adoption weight gain a little). I had a funny experience that may or may not mean anything. China is 13 hours ahead of us, so while we were celebrating with some very yummy cake Minsy was actually sleeping her night away on September 2nd in China. But yesterday morning at 4 am I woke straight up. Nothing seemed to have woken me up. Usually I at least open my eyes at around 4:15 or 4:30 when Savannah and Laney get up to get ready for early morning seminary. But I always head back to sleep soon after, only waking fully up when it is time to get Spencer out of bed for junior high. Well, yesterday I woke up on my own at 4 am, and I was wide awake. The house was totally silent except for Brownie's loud but eerily comforting snoring. I just lay in bed for a long while, thinking that I really needed to go back to sleep or I was going to be a royal grump all day. But sleep didn't come. Suddenly I thought about Minsy in China. It would have been 5 pm there -- a perfect time for a birthday celebration. I imagined her receiving the cake we had delivered to her home in China and the package of presents that we sent to her. I could picture the celebration in my mind. It was strange, but at that moment I just felt a real tangible connection to her. Now I don't know for sure that there was any sort of cosmic meeting of souls or whatever at that moment. It could have just been the hallucinations of a weary mother who really needs to get more sleep someday. But, whatever it was, I really am grateful that I had those small quiet moments I was able to enjoy yesterday morning -- just me and my thoughts of Minsy. They were precious to me.
So we didn't do anything really fancy for her birthday celebration, but the kids were excited to do something to celebrate. You can see in our picture above that Katie is a little red faced. She was a bit weepy, and the more we tried to get her to stop for the photo, the more she cried. She has a printed picture of Minsy that she carries with her everywhere. She was holding it up so that at least Minsy's picture could be part of our party, but it was covering up Hyrum's face. When we told her to put it down she felt like we had yelled at her, and she was a bit sensitive about it. She is just so super excited to have a little sister to share with. It is sometimes hard for her to manage all the emotions inside her. She'll be an awesome big sister, I know.
We are still waiting for our travel approval. I'm hoping to get it sometime next week. Today we had a happy delivery though. We got our passports back with brand new Chinese visas. Now we can enter China officially. Hurray! One step closer!
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