Thursday, May 27, 2010

Chase's Marshall Island's Family Picture


Chase brought this drawing home from school last week. It is one of the very first pictures he has drawn of our new family of four. It made me realize that Chase really gets this. He asked me just today if we could please go get his baby brother tomorrow.

The picture is our family of four in an airplane over the Marshall Islands. I love this!

Saturday, May 8, 2010

It's official...Immigration Approval!!!

It is official! We received our immigration approval letter in the mail yesterday! I checked the mailbox late last night and it was there! I can't believe how quickly it came. Things are really falling into place, but we are still trying to be guarded. We know there are still so many things that could happen. It is getting hard not to get our hopes up. The baby boy will be four weeks this Sunday (Mother's Day) and can officially enter the program at that time. So.... we wait....

Sunday, May 2, 2010

No news is good news!

Today the little baby that is waiting and could be our son is three weeks old! Our Dossier's are in the RMI and being reviewed by the attorney for any issues. We have not heard anything and at this point, no news is good news. So... we continue to wait and hope. In the meantime we are continuing to read our books (five books that have to have book reviews done on each). I have completed two and am working on the third. This past week we finally started organizing the basement to prepare for moving Chase's playroom down there. We still have to organize Chase's closet and install shelving. Then we can start on the baby's nursery. We have picked out the fabric for the crib bedding (well, I should say I have and I hope Chris likes Peter Rabbit.. haha). Some of the baby items have made their way upstairs and there are signs of a baby-to-be in the Herrell house. It is getting exciting. We are as always, cautiously optimistic!