care package blues

it may seem strange that i am feeling a little bit sad about dropping off our second care package for max at our agency today. the past week or so i had been working on getting some stuff together to send to korea for our little one. oddly, having the care package around made me feel closer to my boy. i was able to hold what he will soon be holding and look at the pictures that he will soon see. so now that it is not in my reach any more, i feel a bit sad.

i'm sure i will feel better when i know that he actually has received it though. we were originally told that a family from our agency would be traveling in july, but now they are saying it might be a few more weeks. so until then, max's items that were chosen with care will sit in our agency in colorado. here is what we're sending him!

some adorable clothing:

a rattle/teether/crinkly toy:

and my favorite: a soft baby photo album!

here are a few of the pictures that are inside his little album:

also in the album is a picture of max with his foster mother. we are hoping she will be able to use this album to help explain to him who we are. we also included a few small items for the foster mother and foster father. of course everything needed to fit in a 1 gallon size freezer bag, so the items have to literally be "small".

i enjoyed putting this care package together more than i did his first one. for his first one i felt extremely rushed. we had received our referral on april 5th and i found out on april 6th that we could send a care package, but that everything needed to be purchased by april 7th since our agency was leaving for korea after that weekend. here are some pictures of the first care package that max received in april:

i searched the stores for this item. my nephew had something similar and he seemed to love it. i hope max does too.

i had actually purchased two outfits, but later realized that they wouldn't both fit in the bag.

out of the two, brian liked this one better, and i liked what the little tag says. : )

his file said that he liked taking baths, so i bought him some bath stuff.

we also included a few things for the foster family, however, these chocolate covered peanut butter filled pretzels didn't fit in the bag... that's ok, brian and i enjoyed them!