We have received our first update!

Hooray!! On Tuesday, we received an email which made our hearts so happy! Keith called me at work a minute (no joke!) before lunch recess was over to tell me we had received new pictures of our son!  Of course I did not have time to go check my email and had to wait until after my tutoring group was over after school!! I cried so many tears both happy and sad.  We were already so in love with his face and now we have some more pictures to add to our hearts which show some more of his expressions.  From what we can tell, the most recent picture was from December and he appears to be enjoying some tummy time! There are two pictures taken with his foster brother and it makes me so happy to see the love between the two of them and it breaks my heart at the same time to know that someday they will have to say goodbye. It makes me teary thinking of this, but I am so pleased our baby is loved by such a great big brother! We received an update as well where some developmental milestones were marked.

I have been wanting to tell my students about our adoption and my excitement could not be contained and so I shared my news first with my class! I wish I had a camera or a video to capture their sweet reaction and faces when I showed them our referral photos.  Lots of "awes" and :oohs" and I received a name suggestion...."How about Ryan?" of course named after said student. :0)  I was able to show them our new photos the next day.   It has been two days and my kids already reference "our baby" and have drawn pictures of me holding the baby or me and Mr. holding the baby. So very sweet.  A parent told me her son was talking about babies in their family and included our little guy, saying "Mr. & Mrs. Mc's baby is part of our family too" ....love is all around.

In other news on the adoption front.....the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare will begin processing emigration permits (EP's) on Monday!!! So happy for the many families who have been waiting for their call, I hope they receive it very soon so they can bring their child home.

And without further ado....here are two pics.  Let me know if you would like to see the others as I will not be posting them here...we received five. :0)

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Dear Baby Boy,
  You are loved so much already.
 oxoxox