I left home 70 days ago
That has seemed like an eternity some days
and others it seems like its flown by
My heart always finds great comfort in writing
so I am going tp get back to it. There is so much going
on in this heart and head of mine that its great having
a place to share. More for myself than for any one else
The last time my feet were on US soil was 70 days ago
I have to say that I knew this would be difficult
however, there are simply things I don't know that we
could have prepared for if we had researched this country
for months.
After 70 days here, we have nothing to show for
our time spent here. We have nothing to show
towards the adoption of the boys other than the
head of social welfare informed us two weeks ago that
they were processing our case. Which, we were not
given any idea on what that means.
This country states that they require a 3 month stay
in country with the children. We saw
within our first two days in country that most likely
was not going to be the case.
It is our hearts desire at this point to simply be given
a time frame.
To know if any of the time I've spent in country will count
towards our 3 month requirement.
However, it is not appropriate to ask those questions as
it will potentially cause your process to be stopped intentionally
So, its difficult to know how to proceed
and quite frankly difficult on the heart to simply
have no answers
In the meantime....
We are spending our days bonding with the boys
and continuing to get to know them.
They've lived in our house now for about 68 days
Levi has learned to crawl in that timeframe
He is crawling EVERYWHERE
He desires to pull to stand and really would enjoy walking if he could
Luke on the other hand is finding the crawling thing
a bit more difficult.
He has a very large umbilical hernia that appears to have
weakened his abs. That little guy is slowly but surely
getting stronger ( thanks to my sister who is
a pediatric physical therapist) She has given several tips and
just has encouraged me in getting him moving.
They each have their own sweet personalities.
Levi is a cuddly, gentle teddy bear of a baby
Luke on the other hand is regularly heard being as loud
as possible. He loves hearing himself :)
He is very independent until hes sleepy
then he wants to be scooped up and loved on
He is very independent until hes sleepy
then he wants to be scooped up and loved on
He is cutting four top teeth currently and is handling
it like a champ
This mommy is worn out but I wanted to give at least some idea of what
in the world we are doing
