Our little guy preview

How and where do I start? From the fact that we were late for our first meeting. We don't have the middle name "late" for nothing! This time, it's my usual 5min lateness. So we walked in to the office; I knew where to go but I must still have this frazzled look in my face, since the lady on the first floor said to me, "2nd floor, for E." And she walked in with us and got us to the 2nd floor saying, "he's already here. We love him." So we walked in to our SW's office and she promptly stood up and took us to one of the meeting rooms, opened the door and there was our little guy... just walking around looking to see who was coming in. Everything is a little hazy after that but I remember noticing our foster mom teary eyed. She pointed us to our son and said, "umma, appa" (mommy, daddy). So I bent down and picked him up and lo and behold... my first time to finally hold our son. Heaven! Thank you Lord! I think he reached out for our foster mom after a while so I handed him over. And after a little while I think she handed him to UD. AAAhhhhh! That was so truly blessed to see. I have waited a long time to see this. Our son tolerated us pretty well, in my humble opinion.
Every once in a while I would hear our foster mom sigh and see her get kind of teary eyed. I think she will have a hard time grieving for a while. Bless her heart. There was also another woman there with her foster child. I missed this part, but apparently our SW mentioned that she was our son's first foster mom. I cannot recall her saying that at all but UD and GM both said the same thing. I was a little pre-occupied I guess. But her being there, I think helped our foster mom a lot - to keep it together. So I oohed and aahed for a little while longer; talking baby talk and then we all went out to eat. I carried our little guy for a while; then handed him over to our fm and she handed him over to UD after a while. That seemed to work really well. We went to a Korean barbecue place where you sit down on the floor to eat and eat with your fingers pretty much. The food was very good but I didn't eat very much.... first I was too full from lunch and I was too busy watching our son and taking pics of course! It was at dinner time that we found out how much of a busy body our son is! I mean, B-U-S-Y!!! Watch out We-i... this one might take over your B-U-S-Y throne really soon! By the way, I am sorry there aren't any pics yet... we brought all our gadgets except we brought the wrong adapter. So our laptop is just about dead;
got the pics transferred on to my flash drive to load on the blog, then I found out the computer here at guesthouse doesn't have a USB plug in/thingymajigger. Oh stink!!!!

No place for a card reader thingy majigger either! Stink!!! But to go on with our little guy preview... our SW agreed to letting us have a little more play time with our little guy here at the guest house! Just us and the two foster moms! Yay! Thank you Lord! They didn't speak English but we had no problem communicating at all. The other foster mom sure knew how to get things across by either pointing to what she meant or just body language.. can't quite describe how well she communicated despite not speaking any english. We had fun just getting little guy time. UD's words after the meeting, "he's strong willed!" And that's not an understatement! WE are going to have the time of our life especially coming home! He is CONSTANTLY on the move! Heaven help us. Pray with us some more please that we would come out of this plane ride alive and sane! I am not sure how long our foster moms were gone but they did go upstairs to maybe see the babies I played with yesterday. During that time, our little guy did pretty well with just us. I can tell every few minutes he would look around for our foster mom. My prayer is and have been for a while now that THE meltdown could possibly be held off until after we come home.
Poor little guy is going to have a rough time ahead of him for a while. I fervently pray he will recover well and come out of it not traumatized for life.

How did I feel the whole entire time? Blessedly calm and just oblivious to anything but our little guy. Thank you every body for praying for us. There were no tears shed; not even happy tears. I was JUST so blessedly happy, no tears would/could come. I am glad and thankful we got to see him before he becomes ours tomorrow. I am going to need to pick up a lot of stuff in our room here in preparation for the rest of our "trip." Our room is not at all kid proof! Fair warning, there might not be any more posts after tomorrow. Well... long posts anyway. I am telling you, this kid is going to keep us on our little toes for a LONG time! And I say... bring it on!!! I thank you again Lord for this wonderful opportunity to be able to raise our little guy. Please Lord, keep our hearts sensitive to his needs and yet be able to apply tough love at the same time. I thank you for our birth mom; may she somehow know of our love for this little guy of hers and ours. I thank you for foster parents, especially for our foster parents for giving our little guy much needed nurturing early on. Thank you for family. Everything seems so surreal right now... will really try and find an adapter tomorrow before we pick up our little guy. We get to have lunch with our foster mom again tomorrow! Yay! And then we are on our own!

Thank you for reading this long post. Hope everything is well with everybody - family, friends, and coworkers. I am praying specifically for EP submission for my friend Chris.

By the way, did I mention I think our son is super cute? HE IS! Pics do not do him justice!

AC