Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The Plan

As anyone who knows me or who has read my blog for awhile can tell you, I have questioned so many decisions I have made when it comes to our adoption. I second guessed myself constantly. Did we pick the right agency? Should we switch agencies (when wait times increased again and again)? Will this ever happen for us? Well it is happening. I truly do not believe it. I feel very calm right now. Packing is nearly complete. But still I don't believe it is really happening.

I know longer second guess my decision. I am so glad we stuck it out with our agency and waited longer. Because after all T wasn't even born when we considered switching. I truly feel like he is meant to be ours. That's awesome and difficult at the same time. I am not naive-at least not anymore. Two plus years of waiting taught me a lot. I know that this beautiful little boy with a crazy mohawk was loved by another first. My heart breaks for her. I so hope we get to meet her on trip two. I want her to know that he will be ok and will be loved always.

So apparently the plan was for us (especially me) to grow and become less naive, meet some really awesome friends who we now consider family, board a plane with 2 of our closest friends, and have the love and support of said friends as we meet our boy and leave Ethiopia without him.

I am still so nervous about court, but I can't wait to see how the rest of this plan unfolds. I can't wait to board another plane and bring home our (soon to be) son.

Think of us and The Busters and send a few good thoughts or prayers our way.


Saturday, July 17, 2010

Friday!!!!!!!!!!!

We leave on Friday! I can not believe it. After all this time it does not feel real. We meet him in 9 days. T is now in Addis which means we will get to see him twice instead of just once. My biggest concern is of course passing court.

We received T's social report yesterday with lots of photos. Let me tell you he is even cuter then I could have imagined. He is holding his head up well or at least it appears in the photo. He drinks all of his portion of formula and mostly cries when hungry.

Next to court my biggest concern is seeing his lifebook. I'm not sure how to prepare for this. I am glad that we will have the chance but not sure how to process the info we receive.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Cleared for take off!!!!!!!!!!

We got a call today telling us our MOWA date was good and we are a go for our court date. They actually said we could come a week earlier (this weekend), but with additional costs, the wedding I need to photograph and a few other details we thought we better wait.

So we leave in 10 days!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and our boy is now in Addis, not Hosanna. So we might get to spend more time with him.

Someone pinch me! (ok not for real I'm crying enough as it is)

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

My Peanut

He's little. He started off around 50 percentile and is now in the 3rd percentile. He has gained weight but not a lot. He is 8lbs & 22 inches at 3 months old. He needs to get home so I can fatten him up.

And on the airline front... we are tentatively booked on the same flight as E&D. At least once we get to Germany. I so hope we get news this week that our court date is solid and not tentative. I think we'll need to book tickets very soon.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

And more waiting...

Right now we are waiting on word to go ahead and purchase our tickets. We have tickets on hold for us and will probably have to go ahead and buy them on Friday!!! It's so hard to think that we could be in Ethiopia in less then 3 weeks but still don't know for sure.

One thing I do know is that I am THRILLED that there is a very good chance that we will be there with two of our closest friends. The thought is more then I can take. We have joked about this for months but who would have actually thought it would happen? It will make it that much harder if we get bumped back a week or so.

Right now every sentence starts with Three Weeks From Now...
we could be leaving for ET
we could be arriving in ET
we could wake up in ET
be eating breakfast, HOLDING OUR BOY, be preparing for court. We could be waiting for the judge to say Yes!

We could officially be his in about 23 days.
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