Good News

We just got an email update from our adoption agency that the family ahead of us (that is in Vietnam right now) was approved by US Immigration and are free to come home with their new baby girl. This is great news. The first family that traveled had some trouble with Immigration and ended up staying in Vietnam for about two months trying to get it worked out. Though, in the end they were able to return to the states with their baby it was still making us very nervous. We kept thinking about how scary it would be to be stuck in country for that long - not to mention having to foot the bill for room and board plus an attorney. We have a whole new confidence now that things went so smoothly for the second family. Please keep us in your prayers that everything will go that well for us.

On another note; we have scheduled the baby shower for November 18th so we are keeping pretty busy with that. I think we're about done now. Mom is in charge of decorations and Tiff is in charge of the cake. I have so many other folks helping out with the refreshments. We're having it at Tiff's house - I think it will be nice. I hope everyone shows up! I had Brad sealing the envelopes last night so I could mail out the invitations today. I think they came out really cute. Let me know what you all think.

I still haven't done anything in the nursery. I need to at least start washing the outfits that I want to take with us. I guess I need to wash his bedding too while I'm at it. Brad and I bought a Baby Bjorn on ebay this weekend that came in today. It's in really good condition - it looks brand new. We also bought a LSU windsuit from a lady in New Iberia that we picked up this weekend. Brad says it's "tight". That lady was so nice; she even gave me two little Ralph Lauren shirts for Jackson.

We keep trying to imagine what life will be like once the baby is here. It's so weird to think about how much things will change. Brad is freaking out because "we will have to take him everywhere we go". I didn't ask him if this was a new revelation or if it's something he's been thinking about for a while. I wonder what Kos will think about Jackson. I need to get him a "I'm the big brother" shirt. Do they make those for dogs???

I printed out our baby registries for Ms. Peggy today and noticed that a couple of things have already been purchased...how exciting! It's still sinking in that we are really going to be parents and we'll really need all of this baby stuff.

Raegan