Cars, Trucks, and Buses - Oh, My!

We received our official Travel Packet today - not Travel Approval (TA), mind you. It contained all of the original photos of Jack, the original Chinese paperwork, including medical paperwork, additional paperwork for us to complete, and a copy of our dossier. Seeing the complete dossier was very gratifying, I must say. Here is the final product of all of our paper chasing!!!

We also discovered that Jack loves cars, trucks, and buses. When he would see them when he was a little younger, he would clap enthusiastically. I imagine that when I see him for the first time, I'll have a box of animal crackers in one hand and a toy car in the other - a sort of "Hey, I'm really a nice lady once you get to know me" kind of offering. :0) Oh, and his favorite color is blue - just like his dad!

Included in our paperwork were a couple of pictures we hadn't seen of a much younger Jack - approximately 2 years old. We had a fit when we saw them - they are so darned cute! They didn't scan well, but at least you can see him, in what looks like a fit of giggles. Oh, how we wish we could turn back the clock and have the chance to know him sooner. Sometimes it's difficult to understand why God would have this child grow and have time to bond with his caregivers in an orphanage, only to be taken away by these funny-looking strangers. But God's plan is perfect ... kind of like an exquisite Monet painting. Up close, all you can distinguish are blobs of various colors, with no real form. But when you step back and look at the entire picture, the Artist's individual strokes suddenly make sense and we see a complete picture that leaves us in awe.