I can't believe I'm typing this.........

We have LOA!!!!!!!!!

This is the letter of acceptance from China. This means that China has agreed that our paperwork is satisfactory and we can adopt Mei Mei. We are one more BIG step closer to bringing Mei Mei home!!!!!!!!!!! This piece of paperwork came about a month earlier than I expected it too, we are so surprised and thankful! We now have to complete the immigration paperwork and get travel approval. Hopefully we will travel in a few months!

And now we are allowed to send her a carepackage as well as share her picture, so without further ado........

Here she is....

And the party continues....

We had a small birthday dinner with family at our house for M. She was soo excited all day, she couldn't even fall asleep for nap.

M jumps back as baba lights her lotus candle.
What party is complete without a pinata filled with chocolate candy? This is our 1st store bought pinata,(thanks to Tar*get clearance, $4.98) and it had a few dozen ribbons hanging under it and you pull the ribbons one by one until one lets the candy loose. Well we went around the room and everyone pulled a ribbon and when it got back it M, she grabbed and pulled about 5-6 ribbons
at once, and wouldn't you know out came the candy.

I can't believe she's 5! Where did my baby go???
M loves these lotus candles. It spins as the flower opens and plays "Happy B*irthday".

This is her real cake, had to make the extra flat one for the candle.
Thanks to our friend, Miss Nancy for letting us borrow your cake pan! M wanted a princess doll cake with a purple dress. She must have been happy with it, because she said, "Mama you make the best cakes ever and you the best mama ever! You do a great job on that!"

She knows just how to melt this mama's heart.