LEGALS!!!

Well as I said before, I sent all the acceptance paperwork off on Friday and it got to Holt on Monday. Well, today I found out it was all approved. YEAH!! So then I got an email telling me that our LEGALS should be here by this FRIDAY!!! I am so excited. We really expected it to take a month as that it was what I was constantly seeing on the Holt bulletin board. I will post as soon as I receive them of course and then when I send out the I-600. I can't tell you how excited I am to be finishing up the paperwork within a week!!!! YEAH!! I guess that means it will soon be the Dallas USCIS job to help get my baby home quickly.

Baby Bedding

After the initial shock passed that we finally got our referral, I decided of course on Thursday to start looking for crib bedding. I have been looking off and on for months now and have been able to find nothing that really stood out to me. Well, I found it and Aaron likes it as well. So now all I have to do is purchase it. It is Peek-A-Boo Baby Snoopy crib bedding and I think it is absolutely adorable and I LOVE the colors.

First Shopping Trip

Today, I went shopping for a care package for Kaiden. We definitely want to send him a piece of ourselves so that he can get to know us. We also want his foster mom to see who his parents are and give herself some comfort getting to know us as well. I decided to send a photo album. Here is the one that I picked.

It is the Baby Einstein Baby Photo Book. It will hold 6 4" by 6" photos.

I am excited about picking the pictures in my album for MY baby to look at!!

I also picked up two outfits and 3 of the cutest pair of socks. I am still unsure about what to get the foster family, but I am working on it slowly. If you have any ideas for me, please let me know.

Congratulations Mommy and Daddy!

On Wednesday March 25 at 2:15pm, we got the call that would change our lives forever. I was teaching students when the receptionist called from the office that there was a call from Holt International and would I like to take it. I sat in my chair and was shaking. When I picked up the phone, she evidently was ready for speechless excited people and just told me that we had an assignment for a baby boy and that she was going to send the information to my email in the next few minutes. She asked me if I was there after she told me this and I said yes. Then, I asked her was she sure she wasn't joking. She laughed at me and said she wasn't joking. I immediately picked up the phone and called Aaron. I just blurted out on the phone ,"WE HAVE A BOY." He told me I had better not be messing with him. I told him I wasn't and there was complete silence on the phone. I can say this, the rest of the afternoon and the following day was a complete blur. Between crying and screams of happiness for us, I don't remember much of anything except our prayers have been answered in the form of a tiny wonderfully adorable baby boy.

Kaiden's actual Korean name is Seo Eun-jun, but we have decided to name him Kaiden Seo. Aaron actually really helped with the naming process. We have always known if it was a boy we were going to name him Kaiden, but Aaron helped pick the spelling of his first name and his middle name. I have never seen my husband so excited and happy. We are both just unbelievably thrilled.

I turned in all the acceptance paperwork today. And boy, that was a load of paperwork. That should all get to Holt on Monday so hopefully soon our paperwork will be on its way to Korea.