Last week we got an unexpected update on Ruby (her blog name, not her real name). The social worker had asked for one as soon as we froze her file in April, but I didn't think much about it. The update had some really recent photos (June 2012!), plus kind, loving descriptions of Ruby's personality from her nannies:
"Her general health condition is good. Her body coordinated well. She is a active, clever and lovely girl."
We also got new photos, including:
These are great, because they show her outside and experiencing real life, not just orphanage rooms. Some children never go outside, and that first day with their parents is so scary for them. It depends on the orphanage. We think she's in a pretty good place. One of the other blogs I've read shows photos of the interior of the orphanage (we haven't received any of those ourselves). It has many colorful toys.
The update makes all this process so much more real. After a trudge through the paperwork, the real child behind it gets a little two-dimensional. But here she is in all her one-and-a-half-year-old chubbiness. She's 24 pounds, and her BMI is 24.1, which sounds great!
**Update: we learned some months later that Ruby was being raised in Beijing in a foster home, not in the orphanage that was in charge of her. So these are photos of Beijing's environs, not Inner Mongolia.
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