Beautiful Pics - What Can I Say!?

I was unexpectedly blessed with new pictures of the girls today. This has to be the best picture of the two of them together. Gadisae is wearing a little necklace that I tucked into a purse in my care package I sent her. She has the cutest little grin on her face, while Mesai has her quiet, gentle look that I am becoming accustomed to.

I love to see how their little afros are coming in so nicely. This is the message that I received about our girls today:

Here are the pictures I was able to take of your girls. They were so excited to have their pictures taken, knowing that they were going to their mother. What lovely girls. They and the rest of the toddler group sang beautifully to us just before I took their pictures. You would have been so proud of them. Hope these pictures help to make the wait a little easier.

I have to tell you when another parent takes the time to lovingly take a picture for another waiting adoptive parent they bless them immeasureably. This wait is not nearly as long as it could be because we have gotten to 'know' our girls through video and photos. We are incredibly blessed.

If I had never seen a photo other than the agency photos, which nice as they are to receive, are not natural, such as the 'parent taken ones' are, I would not know my girls' characters. When they are asked to smile for the camera for parents who are picking up, they just seem to understand that this is an exciting day and they just shine. Whereas, the pictures that we gratefully receive from the agency, seem more plain. We don't see their personalities popping out. Perhaps it is because they have spent time with these people who are picking up their own children and so they *want* to have their pictures taken at that particular moment. I don't know. I just know that we are eternally grateful for these pieces of the last three months of our girls lives. There are less blanks to fill in.

When we pick them up I really feel like I will not walk in there blind. I think I know a little bit about our girls and who they are. I expect - and hey, I may be way off base! - that Gadisae will be quite exhuberant, and Mesai will be more reserved and quiet. But when it comes to *their* big day, perhaps Gadisae won't be quite so outgoing. It is exciting to think that it won't be long before we find out!