Update!!

Still finding it hard to post. Too much swirling around my already crowded head. Very busy at work, home, life. But there is a little sunshine to tide me over. Him. Our little man.

Last week we got the good news that Ethiopia would not be requiring the two trips for the time being. Huge for us since going there once will nearly break the bank. The day after we received that bit of good news we got an even better bit....our Court date!! Not to give too much away, as I am still extremely leery about posting too much and getting my butt in trouble, but it is next week. Next week we will hopefully pass Court. Next week he will, for all intents and purposes, be ours! So, if you are reading this keep sending positive thoughts our way and if you pray, send one up to the Big Guy for us. If we pass, and I think we will, then we wait for our Embassy appointment date. When we get that we go. Could be sooner, but really hoping for June.

The Empress and I, with a bit of help from T, put the nursery together this past weekend. It turned out cute, but feels really incomplete. With the Empress we had tons of clothes and toys and lots and lots of girly girl things for her before she arrived. With him, not much. We decided on an elephant theme and I have a few real cute elephant goodies. I took apart some of my childhood "Babar" books, (*cringe") framed some of the pages and called it good. Babar was one of my favorites as a child and I had all the books.....they are all over 40 years old. Sad I took them apart, but plan on replacing them soon for our little guy.

We got an update on "him" on Friday. He is growing and is currently tipping the scales at 20 lbs. He is also an amazing 27 in. Perhaps that doesn't sound big to anyone else, but we only have experience with one little peanut from China. He is crawling, too. I am sending an iron supplement and multi-vitamin over with a traveling family this week. Hopefully our boy will have kicked his iron deficiency anemia by the time we bring him home. The gal who is taking the meds to him has also promised lots of pictures. Hooray. I only have a week to wait to see more of those big brown eyes.

Gotta close. Things are moving along and we couldn't be more happy!