Happy 6th months little man

Van is 6 months today. We had hoped that we would have him by now but alas there are no travel dates in sight at all. On the up side, yesterday I opened my yahoo to see an email from the family that are over in Vietnam now adopting a baby girl from the same orphanage. This family had offered to take pics and video of our little guy so we were counting down the days until January 20th. We were not disappointed!!! She took 4 pictures and 2 short videos. It was so very wonderful to see our little guy. He looks great!! He even had on the little outfit we had sent and his nounou was holding the stuffed toy :) The family also told me in the email that he seemed very happy (laughed a lot) and healthy. So thank you Nadia and family for taking the time to do this and as a result giving us such an amazing gift!!!

Any adoptive family will tell you how hard the wait to travel was and how important updates are, especially updated pictures. It is unfortunate that we have to count on each other to get this information as opposed to getting it from our agency but that is the way it is and you have to accept it. At least we do have each other. I hope that when the time comes we can do the same for another waiting family!