Balloons galore!

I've been wanting to have a mural of hot air balloons painted in Reed's room. I left a couple messages with a few people that friends suggested and never heard back from them. I'm glad my calls were not returned because we decided to try and do it ourselves and we're having so much FUN. (ok, I'm having fun and Tim is doing most of the work). I came up with the bright idea of printing out a few balloon pictures and enlarging them on a copier...........we taped them to the wall, traced around them, drew in the lines and walah- balloons galore!! I LOVE it. It is SO cute!! I haven't figured out how to do the clouds yet, but the balloons are really cute. Here's all we've (Tim's) got done so far.........
It got dark outside and I forgot to turn on the flash so the wall color looks funny but the blue with all the bright colors looks really good.

Who's got the best hubby EVER?!

more shopping

Shop till you drop, right? I found some of the cutest outfits over the weekend. This is so much fun!!! Now all I need is for Reed to COME HOME

FCC Halloweeeeen

Tonight we went to the waiting families dinner, which happened to be the Halloween party also.
All the kiddos looked SO cute!!
(Gotta go check on Tim, he's making friendship bread- too funny!) Have a great weekend!

Dry, dry eyes!

I haven't been able to wear contacts for about 2 months now because I've got dry eyes.
The ophthalmologist said it could be a side effect of an auto immune disease or low estrogen and he wants to plug my tear ducts.
The blood work is back today and no auto immune disease was detected (yippee!) so I've got to go have my estrogen checked. Any of you ladies had this problem?
I recently found an old friend on Faceb()()k and she made a comment about us getting old.
I'm really feeling OLD now :)

Ordered a care package

I received permission from our agency to send a care package to Reed.

We quickly ordered a package from Ladybugs N Love. We also sent some pictures of us and a letter to the nannies to share with him. Here's a shot I received of some of the items being sent:

I wanted to send more goodies but I'm just not sure they will let him have too much stuff.

PS: Day 29 waiting for LOA!!

Retail Therapy

Today was our fingerprint renewal appointment in Birmingham.
We checked in at 9:02 (glad I don't have to drive in that traffic every day) and out at 9:24 so it was the perfect opportunity to do a little retail therapy at the Summit!!
We got a few cute outfits, a sweet pajama set and a book. I'm trying not to go overboard until I get more measurements but I couldn't resist a few things. They are all 18m but they look big!

What's in a name?

I guess I never explained our name choice:

William is my dad and granddad's name
Reed is Tim's middle name and his dad's middle name.

William Reed covers dad, granddad, Tim and Tim's dad.
I never had the chance to meet Tim's dad, but I know he would be proud!

L I D !!!!!

We have our log-in-date !!! Sept 10
Only 5 days after DTC (dossier to China).

We also got out paperwork in the mail today from CIS . Our fingerprints expire in November so it looks like we'll be getting them done again (3rd time).
Lisa, you should be getting yours soon too!

Care package

I really want to send little man a care package but I don't want to do anything to upset the apple cart. What do you think? Is it ok to send a package before getting LOA ?

DTC

Tim just spoke with the agency and we will be dossier-to-China today or tomorrow!

Tonight I was thinking about our journey and everything we have been through to get to this point and I realized; Yu Jun was born almost 9 months after we started our adoption process.
All this time we have been waiting we did not realize that he was conceived only a month after we started our paperwork. I pray that his birth mother somehow finds comfort and peace and could be reassured that we love him dearly. We will always be grateful that she chose life.