Trixie's Prayer

Trixie loves to pray and we never know what to expect when she prays. Tonight's started with her classic intro, "Oh, Lord!" and then she continued with, " I don't know when we'll get Henry but it needs to be soon! I will give him some food and mango to eat." From there her prayer skipped on to how "we're all connected to other stuff" (something she picked up from a Pocahontas song). So sweet that Trixie is praying for Henry and how funny that her concern is feeding him. That's my girl! :)

Approved

We got our approval today from immigration for our I600A application. I was starting to get worried since it has been over a month since we mailed the application in. What a relief to get these things taken care of. I also found out today about a couple more referrals. 8 referrals since April 1. We've got to be right at the top of the list -- I hope the referrals keep on rolling out!!

Mother's Day

Today was the best Mother's Day I've had yet! There was one particularly sweet moment that I want to remember so that Henry can know about it some day. This morning I was giving Brent a kiss and hug to thank him for the card and of course Lydia and Trixie wanted to join in. They always want to join in with Brent and I's hugs. As we were all hugging and kissing each other Lydia shouts out "Let's send kisses and hugs to Henry!" We all blew kisses to Henry. Then Lydia said "Let's give extra big hugs for Henry!" As we're all hugging Lydia shouts out, "Happy Mother's Day, Henry!" It was just so sweet.

We're getting there!

I just checked the Lifelink online group and saw that there has been another referral. There have been a total of 5 since April 1. If my calculations are correct we should be about #3 on the list now!!!! We're getting so close -- yikes & yahoo! Looking at the referral pictures makes me so excited ~ those babies are incredibly cute. There's some major things to do, though. We need a new car, another kitchen chair, Trixie needs to get moved into Lydia's room, Brent and I need to take our adoption courses and wow! can I really do this?! The answer is a definite YES!

Ridiculous Red Tape

Just when I thought everything was going smoothly we get caught in a snafu of govt. red tape. We got a letter saying that something was wrong with our homestudy and we couldn't be approved until changes were made. Our Social Worker tried to find out what the problem was, but immigration wouldn't release the info. to her until we sent in a privacy consent form. We scanned and emailed our consent form in, but they didn't like that one. So Carol had to come out to our house so that I could sign a new consent form to scan and email to them. It turns out that there was a sentence that they didn't like and needed to change about when our post placement visits would be occurring. This just strikes me as a bit petty to make us go to all that trouble over a couple sentences. Seems like their time could be better spent in other ways. Oh well! I'm glad it was an easy fix and hopefully in a few days we'll officially be approved. That will be a relief.

Sweet Lydia

Sweet, sweet Lydia is always thinking of Henry. Tonight in Mission Friends we made a picture of bluebonnet flowers (the Texas variety) with blue tissue paper. The children were supposed to draw of picture of themselves on the paper as well. Lydia drew extra butterflies and a picture of an Asian boy (Henry) and then wrote across the top "to Henry." I was complimenting her and telling her how proud and happy my heart felt about all this and she said, "I want to hang this in his room so that when he gets here he will see it and feel welcome." What a gal! Someday when Henry and Lydia are older and arguing I need to remember this. :)