Suggestion for an adopted child gift

When I adopted my daughter, a friend gave me this poem matted and framed:


It's not attributed to anyone so I don't know who wrote it.


Another friend gave me a beautiful plaque with my daughter's name, her birth date, the date of our adoption of her and the meaning of her name (Bringer of Peace).

Of all her baby things, these are the two things (aside from a baby quilt I made for her that she hangs on her wall) that she still has in her room. She's seventeen now.

How sweet - great suggestions.

There are lots of products available that can feature the child's name. I gave each of my kids a handmade set of letter blocks that interlocked to form their name.

If you live in an area that has an educational or independently owned toy store, you can buy a wooden train with each car supporting a letter so that the full train spells out the child's name.

A co-worker just adopted a little boy out of Africa. They are keeping his African name but added two middle names. The man has two adopted cousins from Africa who Anglicized their names during middle- and high-school but discovered in college that their African names were 'cool,' and returned to using them.

A nice child-sized blanket would be nice. My daughter still sleeps with the one she got as an infant.

Really anything that you would send any new baby would be fine -- just get it in toddler size!