Friday, November 20, 2009

November- still waiting!

To sum up these past few weeks- we are still waiting for the travel call! I have to be honest, this has been frustrating. I'm a planner and not knowing when we are leaving is a little stressful. But, I am trying to keep busy. I have almost all of our Christmas shopping done. I don't think I've ever been done this early before! Once Julia is home, I'm guessing there won't be much time or energy to shop. I also went to visit a college friend in Ohio this past Monday- Wednesday. Nate is off this week so I was able to go without the kids. I enjoyed spending time with my friend, Beth and her family. Her youngest, Clara, is 6 months old. It will be fun to have daughters so close in age! Julia is 8 months old now.

On Tuesday night, Nate got a phone call from our social worker at 10 pm. He was a little surprised, but it wasn't the travel call. :) She was telling us to look for a document in the mail on Wednesday that we needed to sign, notarize and drive to the Grand Rapids office on Thursday morning so the form could be mailed back to Korea on Thursday afternoon. Julia had her visa physical in Korea and the physician noted that she had a hemangioma on her scalp. They then need the adoptive parents to sign a letter of acceptance basically saying, yes, we still want our child. Seems a little silly, but they have to make sure everything is legit. We already knew about her hemangioma and have seen pictures of it. It's like a raised birthmark under her hair. Not a big deal, but we'll sign whatever we have to and drive all over MI to get her home! So, our social worker is hopeful that the form will arrive in Korea by Monday and MAYBE we could get our travel call by Tuesday or Wednesday??? I am trying to strike a balance between being really excited, but also not getting my hopes up. Have I said this waiting game is difficult? :) I know once Julia is home though, the wait will be worth it!

In the past couple of weeks Nate and I have helped out in Caleb's classroom. He enjoys school so much and is learning alot. He is very close to reading. He is learning some phonics and is excited that he can sound out some words! We have started taking Isaac to the Dash and Splash program at the gym. He is a little young, but does well if we stay with him. He needs a little help following the teacher's directions. :) He likes the scooters during the gym portion and is actually learning quite a bit in the swimming portion. Isaac is still our silly, snuggly child. He has adjusted to Cardale being gone, but he still doesn't play alone well. He prefers to follow me around and do whatever I'm doing. Isaac has also started the "scared of the dark" phase. We leave the hall light on now when he goes to bed and he's been waking up more at night and having a hard time going back to sleep. I remember when Caleb went thru this phase. I thought it wouldn't be an issue for Isaac since Caleb is in the room with him, but I guess I was wrong. :)

2 comments:

spainer said...

I don't know WHY you'd like to plan ahead for when you will travel across the world ;)

Mom J said...

Guess you got the planning gene from both of your parents! We would love to have the luxury of lots of time to plan for our stay in South Haven too! Maybe the worst of the H1N1 will be out of western Michigan before you bring Julia home----that's a good reason to wait, right?