Vitamins

Duane and I will travel to Africa sometime in the next 3 months for our court date and to meet our little guy in person. Then we will go back about a month later to pick him up and bring him home for good. We will be taking Ty and Ali on the 2nd trip. We have to wait for his immigration papers to go through after the court date, so that is why we have to make 2 trips. When we started this process it was only required for us to go the Africa once, but since we have been in process the rule changed and we have to go twice, so if anyone is looking for Christmas ideas for Ty and Ali, airline tickets would be great:o) If anybody has any spare prayer time, please pray that we can get him home by Christmas.

We are so excited and happy that this little guy is joining our family. Several people have asked if there is anything that they can do to help or if there is anything that we need. When we go over they ask that we bring a donation for the orphanage. I would like to take as many childrens chewable vitamins as I can fit in a suit case, so if anyone would like to contribute a bottle or two to the orphanage let me know and I will get them over there. There are about 75 kids in the orphanage with our little guy, so I hope to collect about 30 bottles so they have a months worth.

We also got an update today that said on our first trip, we can't take anything specifically to our child. We will meet our child in a group setting, and he won't specifically be told that we are his new parents. It sounds like it has been hard for some of the kids when they are introduced to their new parents, then their parents have to leave them in the orphanage for a month while they wait for the immigration stuff to go through. It has to be really hard for those little guys to understand. It will be hard for us to, but at least we can understand the process.

Thanks to you all for all of the support and prayer. We just feel so blessed and excited about this whole adventure.