One year...

Hello Little One!

Today it has been one year since we were officially approved to adopt from the Philippines! We are so excited that the first year has passed quickly and now we know that we should have a year or less to wait for you! We cannot wait to meet you and get to know you! We love you already and we are ready to be your Mommy and Daddy!

We have been planning how we are going to announce your arrival (well the proposal). We have a plan and things are falling into place! We have a nice surprise for our family and friends that is in the works! We can't wait to announce that we are going to be a Mommy and a Daddy...

We love you and we pray for you, your birth parents and your caregivers often. It is our prayer that you would continue to grow up and be healthy and be safe...and that God would provide you with all that you need...that you would have enough to eat, and drink...that you would have many caregivers and friends who love you and care for you and that we would be able to come and get you as soon as possible!

Goodnight Sweet Little One...We love you!

Announcement

Little One...we are waiting for you! The wait is not as difficult as we anticipated, mainly because we know that you are going to come and join our family soon.

We have been planning how we will announce that you are coming to our family and friends. We have thought long and hard about it and we decided that your fuzzy friend Ferdinand the Moose (made especially for you) would go on a hunt, searching for his purpose in life. We took a bunch of silly photos of Ferdinand looking for his purpose and then finally he realizes that his true purpose in life is to be a hugable, loveable, furry friend to you...Our Little One...we have been calling you that for a while now...At the end of our book, we will paste an envelope onto the back cover we will place your announcement picture into the envelope. We have to have the books pre-printed because it takes a week or so to have them printed and we don't want to wait that long once we receive our referral to tell all of our family and friends so a photo insert at the end will do perfectly.

We ordered a sample copy for your dad and I and we received it today! Shhh...it's our secret though. Oh, Little One, it is so amazing! We can hardly wait until we have your referral and we can give these gifts to our family and friends. We are so excited!

We can hardly wait for you to come and join our family...loving you already....

Your Mommy

(We made a few small changes to the book and over the weekend (Thanksgiving 2009) we ordered all the copies for our family! I can hardly wait! We'll be ready when we get the proposal to make the announcement to our families! - we're so excited about the book that we had a hard time not talking about it at our Thanksgiving dinner!)