Lola's Enthusiasm

Since we've told Lola about adoption and what it means for our family, she has been excited.  Her immediate response was "I want both a brother and a sister".  She then went into telling us how she would love to feed the baby and make silly faces at the baby but has no desire to change any dirty diapers.  The next day she went to school and told her teacher all about adoption, she even wrote a short story about having a baby brother.  Her excitement and want for this next chapter in our lives is affirmation to us that we are on the right path.  This brings me to the picture.  Part of the home study process is that Joe and I need to write an autobiography.  We were given an outline to follow.  I worked on mine last week and Joe spent about 3 hours red-penning my rough draft's yesterday.  During this time Lola was watching and I was designing the blog.  She pulled out a piece of paper and wrote UDOPT (phonetic for adopt), then asked her Daddy to write out her thoughts.  It says:
"When you adopt: By Lola
- It's very important
-You have to do a lot of stuff
- It's really really cool to have a brother and sister
- You have to take a lot of care of them"

She then started red-penning her copy just like her daddy was doing to mine.  She was so eager to be a part yesterday while we were so busy working on adoption "stuff".