Ai Lan

One other thing I need to tell you about our  new daughter...her real name is Ai Lan, which means "love orchid."  She was given the western name of Adele for the purpose of the adoption agencies.  But after watching her caregivers play with her and call her Ai Lan in some video footage we have received, we have decided that we love her Chinese name, and plan to use that as her name once she makes it to the US.  She'll be nearly three or more by the time we get her home, and changing her name to Adele doesn't seem to make sense to us.  We think she'll be much more comfortable with keeping her name.  And they call her "La La" as a nickname, which I think is adorable, so we'll keep that too!  So from now on, we won't be referring to her as Adele, but Ai Lan!