AUGUST UPDATE: Oh, baby!

Today was a really tough day... until we got the update photos, of course! I had the day off. I didn't get much of anything accomplished. I just want to sit around in my pajamas all day and wait... wait for something to happen... wait for my life to start. I felt like this a lot right before we got our referral. Anyway, I had been thinking a lot about how much Hannah Claire must have grown and changed since we last had photos and an update. And just this morning I wrote a little letter to her... and look what happened! Poof! The update we've been longing for!

Kevin went to the dentist today and stopped at the mall. I can't believe that he came home with three little boxes of Robeez baby shoes. That's so unlike him. He doesn't buy himself shoes, much less go out and buy baby shoes. Very amusing.

Tonight I worked my worries into a headache and went to bed. About 9:30pm I hear Kevin yelling for me. "Sarah!!! Come here!" I got out of bed and stumbled in my sleepiness into the kitchen where my computer is. I knew by the sound of his voice, this was something very good, or something very bad.

Kevin has it set up that when we get an e-mail from the adoption agency, it makes a "tada!" like sound on my computer and Outlook automatically forwards a copy of the message to Kevin's computer as well. Obviously, we want to know we have these messages, right away! Haha! Opening the e-mail was a lot like opening our referral e-mail. What do you look at first? The text, or the pictures? We read the text first, and my sleepy mind tried to do the math. "Okay, 4.9kg times 2.2kg/pound is... uh... still an itty bitty baby." That's 10.78 pounds to be exact, but this is a weight on her from July 31st where she was 57cm (22.44 inches) long. That was several weeks ago. There were only two photos in this update. I was scared to open up the photos and hesitated. Kevin's like... "Hurry up and open it!" Too funny. Anyway... wow. She looks older, but she still looks like that girl that we know and love only through photos. Same little expressive eyebrows and upper lip. Her hair is getting longer. She's in an over sized light pink romper with snaps down the front. Yes, put my baby girl in pink! From the looks of the crib, she's moved out of the little baby room into the big baby room.

We forwarded the photos to the grandparents right away and called them on the phone to check their e-mail. Gotta take care of those grandparents. I'll bet by my parents already have photos printed out to take with them to work tomorrow to put on their desks.

In other happenings, Kevin is very excited to go on his first Canadian fishing expedition near Chapleau, Ontario, with my dad and THE GUYS, leaving next Friday. I'm glad that we got the updates now instead of while he's gone and out of reach by telephone.