THURSDAY, APRIL 5 Our day started downstairs with breakfast again. We put Gideon in a high chair for the first time, and he was not a fan. So we scarfed down a bowl of cereal and headed back to the playroom. Except this morning, Gideon started...
MONDAY, APRIL 2 (GIDDY DAY) We’ve already talked at length about the big emotions that defined our first day and first week as a family, so we’ll spend most of our time this post just talking through the highlights of our first week with Gideon. But...
We're jumping right back into the blog to cover our custody trip! We'll start with our day-by-day, and then - because I probably get more questions about travel to Korea than just about anything else - I'll share our full Korea Travel Guide! I updated our...
Gideon was placed in our arms 4 months ago today, and we still haven't posted his photo on our blog. For those of you who have been following our blog since the beginning and waiting so patiently to see our boy's beautiful face, we are...
{Written by Brian} I don’t tend to be a very emotional person. My parents have a home movie of my twin brother and me on our 6-7 year birthday, sitting in front of our presents. Randy is bouncing up and down, rocking back and forth, cheesing...
Feeling still worse, and having drooled all over myself because my throat hurt so badly all night (sorry, TMI), I finally agreed to go find a doctor before our flight out of Korea the next day. I remembered Kelli telling me that Itaewon was a...
We woke up early on Thursday, incredibly nervous for court (well, I was…Brian is always cool as a cucumber). Yes, so many families had told us court isn’t a big deal. And yes, it’s supposed to be mostly a formality. But we knew we had...
We had our second visit with Giddy on Wednesday, March 7, this time in the playroom at SWS. We arrived about 15 minutes early, and foster dad was standing outside. He recognized us and waved us over so excitedly, motioning for us to go in....
Moment of truth: This post right here is 90% of the reason this blog is two weeks late in coming. Tuesday, March 6th was the most perfect day of our lives. It truly felt like God arranged every single detail and then gave us the...
