Alex's picture

Alex's picture
Qing FuHai (taken in late June)

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

We got updated measurements


I'm so excited!   I woke up this morning to an email that had Alex's updated measurements in it.  Alex's birthday is Thursday this week (Oct 14th) so a few weeks ago I hunted down a company in China that will deliver care packages to children in orphanges.   We wanted to send him some things that he could keep and bring home with him.  Hopefully this will ease his transition as he will have something familiar to hang onto.  So, we had the company send him pj's, a blanket, a stuffed animal and some toys.  They also sent a letter that we wrote to Alex (translated in Chinese so the orphange workers could read it to him) and a soft photo album that had pictures of Doug, Sam and I.  I am thrilled with the way it turned out.
Well, when the company sent this care package to him, they also asked the orphange for updated measurements on Alex.  We were told originally that they weren't able to get them because the province office wouldn't allow this information to be shared until we were there to pick Alex up.   However, today I received an email with an update.   At one year old he is 19.1 pounds (15% on US growth charts for weight), and 26.4 inches tall (3% for height).   Looks like we're going to have another "vertically challenged" son.   I'm so happy to have received this information this morning and thank God for all his blessings!

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