Tae's Christmas package

The whole family packed Tae a Christmas package to mail to Korea. Charlie and Moots picked a picture to color for him and we went shopping for him. We bought him a cute one piece sweater outfit with an adorable hood from Old Navy, some monkey PJ's, 1st Christmas pajamas, a stocking, CJ and I recorded our voices on "Guess How Much I Miss You" book (yes, i cried as we did it!) a storybook rhymes book, a little lamb that sings-Jesus Loves the Little Children and lots of goodies for the foster family. We are very sad that he couldn't be with us to celebrate Jesus' birthday, but are so thankful his foster family is caring for him so well! We miss you and love you, Tae- Merry Christmas sweet boy!

Tae 8 month pictures!!!

We just got Tae's update with pictures. He is so sweet-crawling, waving and smiling and best of all sleeping through the night!!!! The only thing about the sleep is that it is with his foster mom on the floor-AHHH. Here we go again. I am sure he will be in our bed until he turns 10! In the pictures the foster mom is reading him the book that we sent with all our pictures. In the update it said that she sings hymns to him and takes him to church- so, i am thinking she loves the Lord and is showing our baby the love of Christ! We were sooooooooo excited to get these pictures and just wish we could get our hands on him and love all over him! Charlie said, "Mommy-it's Tae- I just love him so much- can we keep 2 babies-Tae and Jerri Lynn". Jerri Lynn said, "Baby Tae". He weighed 18.7 lbs on November 2.

We received our pre-approval to adopt an orphan from South Korea. So all fingerprints are done and we are just waiting on Korea to do their part! Praying it will be sooner rather than later. The quota has already been met for this year, so they won't resume processing until mid-January.

We love you, Tae!

1st Disney World Trip!

CJ had a conference in Orlando, so we decided to tag along! We started out at Embassy Suites and had so much fun at the indoor pool. It was such a blessing to use his hotel points at the Hilton at Disney World- it was right beside Downtown Disney. The first night, we checked in and walked all around Downtown Disney- the kids were soooooooooooo excited! Both kids slept all night! The next morning, we were 1st in line for the bus to Hollywood Studios! We arrived and waited for it to open. We had a plan =Charlie and I would run to the Star Wars Jedi Training and CJ and Jerri Lynn would go to Fast Pass the Buzz Lightyear ride! We were all signed up and to come back at noon for Jedi Training- well, Charlie just couldn't wait he asked 4000 times if it was time and didn't want to do anything else! Well, the time finally arrived and he was so excited- very serious and excited to be doing that! Definetly made lots of memories- he was the youngest out there and kept up with everybody. He had to fight Darth Vader and did it! The kids also liked "Indian John" (Jones) that is what Charlie called it! Got on the bus and went back to the hotel and everybody slept all night again!!!

Breakfast with Minnie!

Our hotel offered breakfast with Jerri Lynn's favorite character: Minnie Mouse! Pluto also was there and a bear! She was so excited to see Minnie for real! We had Mickey Mouse waffles for breakfast and so much fun with the characters!

Magic Kingdom!

So, we learned after being the 1st people in the park at Hollywood Studios that it wouldn't be necessary to open Magic Kingdom, especially since it was going to be open until 1 am! We woke up- ate breakfast at the hotel and got on the bus to the Magic Kingdom. The kids were thrilled to ride the monorail, because Ree Ree has a monorail toy at her house (she bought at Disney when CJ and I were engaged!) Charlie was in disbelief to see that it is really real! We went through the gates and Snow White was standing there- Mootsie had to see her! Then, we hurried to the Buzz Lightyear ride and rode it 2 times or maybe 3- very fun! We waited in a long line to meet Mickey and we went in Minnie's house. We rode Small World (my favorite) and Peter Pan and then watched several shows. Did I mention that the kids wanted to eat everything in sight! We had the double stroller and it was getting really crowded, so we parked it and made Char walk and carried JL. We did Country Bear Jamboree, Tiki Room, Jungle cruise- Pirates of the Caribbean. A nice man gave us free hot dogs, because they were out of buns. Charlie and I waited in line for Dumbo forever, but it was worth it-he loved it! Then we all rode the carousel. We watched the electric parade and it was getting really late, but we wanted to see the fireworks, so we started walking out of the park- well, so did EVERYBODY else in the whole park- it was like a mosh pit!!!! Got back late around midnight and went to bed!

Tae's First Drawing

We just opened an envelope from Dillon and it was an envelope from Korea with Korean writing and Tae's first picture he drew! So special and truly meant the world to us!!!! His foster mom mailed it to our agency to give to us. The agency said it was the first time this has ever happened for a foster mom to send something like this for the family! I think it is God's love reflecting through her to share with us. Who knows- we may have a little artist!