Bittersweet Update Time

As I have mentioned before, we receive an update on our kids every four months or so.  When we know it is update time, we wait expectantly for an email to come saying the update is here. We get a little giddy with excitement wondering how our kids will have changed, what they will look like, what we will learn about them. 

This is our third update since we have been matched with our kids and wow, is it such a bittersweet thing. 

Bitter because we are watching our kids grow up though pictures.  They are growing and changing, and we are sad that we are missing so much of their little lives.  They change SO much in between every update, they get a little bigger and they are going through phases without us.  They are no longer drinking from bottles (Thai kids generally take a bottle until age 3-4). They are toilet trained.  Now I know, some of you are thinking, that's amazing!  Not really, it means we missed another stage. 

Sweet because we get to see their precious faces and they are beautiful!!  I wish I could share them with you, but we have been asked not to share them publically.  Trust me though, they are beautiful!  It is also sweet because we can tell they are being well taken care of.  They have smiles on their faces and they are sitting close to their foster mom.  They are wearing clean clothes and their hair is being taken care of (our little girl has the most adorable pig tails!), all the little things.  And trust me, we notice every little detail of these pictures.

This update was especially sweet because we finally know (we had just been told to assume) that they know about us.  In the pictures we received, they were each holding the bears we sent them, and the reports said that they enjoy looking through the album of pictures we sent and they point to us and call us "Mommy" and "Daddy".  Marc and I agree, it is kind of a crazy thing to think that there are two little kids on the other side of the world calling us "Mommy" and "Daddy".  Crazy amazing!! 

We are in love with them.  We don't know exactly how we can love two little people who we have never met so very much, but we do.  We love them. And we cannot wait to get a call saying that we have first approval and can travel to bring them home. 

Will you pray with us?  The Thai Adoption Board will not be meeting this Wednesday morning like they normally do, they will be meeting on Thursday morning, May 8th, so our Wednesday night, May 7th.  So, we will be having "Thai Wednesday" instead. At any one of these meetings they could grant us first approval.

Speaking of bittersweet, I am reading an excellent book right now with that very word as its title.  It is true of so many things in life, not just our updates, so many things are bittersweet.  But that is a whole other blog post for another time!