It's a Wonderful Life

Wow...where have the days gone?  We have been keeping very busy here, and making slow, steady progress, even though some days it doesn't feel like it!! 

We finished our video to send to the boys, and, NO, I am not going to post it here.  :P   It is sooooo CHEESY!!!  We were actually quite nervous about making the video.  After all, it will be the first time that our kids will hear our voices and see our faces...it felt kind of intimidating, to be honest.  Well, we hope that the video will help the kids get familiar with us a little bit, and with our home.  So, we introduced ourselves, walked through the house, talked to them a bit.  We spoke in Spanish as much as we could, because we heard from B, our social worker, that the kids usually laugh their heads off at their parents' funny accents.  And I'm sure we will sound goofy to them...not just an American accent, but a Fargo-type accent thrown in there too!  We sent the video, the photo album, and some teddy bears down to the boys last week, but don't know when they will be given to the kids. 

We finished our I800 documentation (citizenship/immigration paperwork), and it is on its way to the Feds.  We hear that we should receive approval in approximately 3 weeks.  Once we have this, we can start planning our actual travel dates and booking tickets, and also apply for our visas.  We are still waiting for our fingerprints to come back from the FBI, but they are in process and there is nothing we can do to speed them up.  Hopefully it will only be a few more weeks before they are ready.

We have been having lots of fun making plans for the upcoming "baby" showers.  And here we must say a huge thank you to everyone who has been involved.  We have been amazed at the outpouring of love and support from those around us...it is as if the excitement and joy of welcoming these three little boys into our lives is absolutely contagious.  People that are practically strangers to us want to know what they can do to help, how they can be involved.  It is awesome, and very humbling, to see.  It feels sort of like we are having these George Bailey/It's a Wonderful Life moments...seeing how your own life has intertwined with and touched other peoples' lives...how friends and family and community are hoping and praying and willing to reach out to help our little boys and our family.  Words cannot express our gratitude.  And sometimes I feel like running through the street, like George Bailey did at the end of the movie...bursting with joy...kissing that stupid old bannister post when it came off in his hand for the millionth time.  Not that we won't have challenges in the days ahead.  We know we will.  But we know that we won't be alone...and for that, we thank all of you!