Oh My Goodness

We are busy, busy getting ready to go meet our son! I wish I could say more about that but for now all the emotions and thoughts are just too much for words.

Today we took Faith out for a "special day" to celebrate the end of our status as a three person family. We have browsed in the Build-a-Bear store many times but she has not been allowed to shop there, so today David and I took her there and let her build a friend to help her through this next. . . umm. . .transition. She got to build one for her brother as well. For herself she chose a light gray cat and for him she chose a dark brown bear. We let her record her own voice and ours on soundboxes inside each of them, and I think we [well, I] got a little carried away when making the bear sounds. We may terrify Davis with this one.

When it came time to choose names for the animals (For their birth certificates. How weird.) Faith had a hard time deciding on the kitten's name. She had no trouble at all naming the bear. She called him Chocolate. Then after hesitantly tagging the cat with Hannah she had a brainstorm and started calling her Vanilla.

So Davis has a bear named Chocolate, and Faith has a cat named Vanilla.

Please pray for my parents as they keep watch over Miss Priss. I am a little concerned about them because of a conversation I had with Faith last night:

"Faith, you be sure you listen and obey MeMa and Pop-Pop and Aunt Lindsey when you are with them. Do you understand?"

"Mama, I don't think I will be able to remember those words when I get to MeMa's house."

Beautiful Boy

Visit our dropshots page to see new photos and a video of our beautiful boy. The password is the name of our city. Many thanks to the Rutland family who were sweet to our son, sent photos to us, and made the awesome video.

Affording Adoption

Just checking in for a moment to link to this blog post on financing adoption.

We are waiting for one last thing to fall into place to finalize our travel plans. We'll post more soon.

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

Hallelujah!! WE PASSED!!!

Pictures and details to follow! Thank you for the prayers and kind words of support throughout this process.

Davis Berhanu Bullington is now legally our son!!!!

The adoption process: It's not so unlike pregnancy. . .

. . .in that there is a lot of eating involved in both. I haven't lost my waiting-for-referral weight and now I'm adding waiting-for-court-date weight. Wow.

Please pray for our family as we wait for what Faith calls "the meeting"-our court appointment - which will be taking place as we sleep (or don't sleep) Wednesday night.

Actually, to be more accurate, Faith calls it THE MEETING as in "Has THE MEETING happened yet?? I hope it is a GOOD MEETING!!"

She's an awesome big sister already.

An Apology

I am so sorry that we have not written anything lately. It is partially because I've been frustrated by slow-computer-syndrome and using all of my meager processing capabilities to add and rearrange my photos on our dropshots site. We do have Easter pics there they are just on weird dates so you'll have to scroll through a bunch of days to see them all. Remember, you have to know what city we are in to view the photos, thanks to my rampant paranoia.

We'll be back again soon with a proper update.