What Anteneh is doing right now...

Here is an excerpt from the book I was talking about, "There Is No Me Without You", by Melissa Fay Greene...The Layla House is the orphanage in Ethiopia where Anteneh is right now... and the picture book she is referring to is something that all of the AAI adoptive families make for their kids. We sent one ahead of us last week..."When she visited the Layla House, the children who had been matched with new families ran to retrieve the photo albums they'd received from America. The fat little albums brimmed with nearly unbelievable images: grinning adults (white Americans or, in about 20 percent of the cases, black Americans) stood on green front yards or beside tremendous vehicles; laughing children sat on slides and swing sets; children in goggles leapt into swimming pools; children in satin uniforms posed with their teams on green fields; children shook hands with a jumbo Mickey Mouse or wrestled with dogs in front of a fireplace or pulled sleds up a snowy hill. The orphans turned the plastic pages slowly, trying to make sense of each image. These had to be fairy tales! Yet the owner of each album had been told it was his or her destiny to leap into these scenes."
I just can't believe it but Anteneh is looking through the album we made for him probably today, wearing the shirt that Tracey embroidered for him that says, "We love you...Daddy,Mommy, Sister, Brother, Doggy"...or putting his Cars stickers on his Cars book that makes peel out sounds that we sent. He's flipping through an album with pictures of Grace and Luke at New Beginnings in front of the lake holding frogs, of Luke in a Powerwheels Jeep, and of Daryn and Me dressed up in front of a fancy Christmas tree. And he's looking at our brick house that must look like a castle to him. And he's seeing the picture of Daryn and Luke laughing and maybe he is thinking 'that is going to be MY daddy'! Wow...it's surreal. I can't wait to leave in 3 weeks!!!!!! Right now I feel like it's all a dream. Is he REALLY half way around the world flipping through his little album, looking at pictures of us? YES! SO cool. So exciting!