So, this morning as I am getting ready there was a story on the news about a local woman, who stabbed her baby to stop the crying. How did the news put it..."She wanted to put a smile on her babies face". How sick is this?! I see these stories all the time on the news and I am just outraged by people who abuse their children. As I was eating lunch today, I was checking msnbc out for news. And what do I see?! "Mom ate brain after killing baby". WHAT?! What has our world come to that people are hurting/killing their children? I don't even have the words to describe how outraged and angry this makes me!!!! It amazes me the paperwork and background checks adoptive parents go through when adopting. And then there are these women/men, who are not ready to be parents, have a baby and abuse them. They aren't required to have background checks, and they should!!!
Sorry had to vent!!!!!!! It just breaks my heart!!!!
Monday, July 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Finalization Date Set and Start of the Next...
Update....
On April 15th, we recieved our notice to appear in court to finalize Ryan's adoption. We are so excited!!!! We can't believe that it has been over six months. They have flown by and are looking forward to the future. We bought Ryan a really cute outfit for court. We will post pictures of the BIG event.
Also on April 15th, we were informed that we are official on the list for the next adoption from Korea. It is a long story and will post more details later, but we have to use a different agency. We are still getting use to the idea because we aren't as comfortable with this agency. We can only use two agencies in Vermont for Korea, and our agency closed their program. Our homestudy will be going to Korea in December of this year, and we should get a referral 5 to 6 months from then. It is hard to predict exactly when, so these dates are projections.
So keep us in your thoughts and prayers....
On April 15th, we recieved our notice to appear in court to finalize Ryan's adoption. We are so excited!!!! We can't believe that it has been over six months. They have flown by and are looking forward to the future. We bought Ryan a really cute outfit for court. We will post pictures of the BIG event.
Also on April 15th, we were informed that we are official on the list for the next adoption from Korea. It is a long story and will post more details later, but we have to use a different agency. We are still getting use to the idea because we aren't as comfortable with this agency. We can only use two agencies in Vermont for Korea, and our agency closed their program. Our homestudy will be going to Korea in December of this year, and we should get a referral 5 to 6 months from then. It is hard to predict exactly when, so these dates are projections.
So keep us in your thoughts and prayers....
November, December and January.....
I have tried really hard to update everyone, but it just isn't getting done. We are enjoying our time with Ryan so much. I am going to add some picture from November through January. Hey, a picture says a 1,000 words. Right?
Ryan played with this ball forever. I just love this picture of him. He would roll it away from him, and go crawl to it. And start all over again.
What a cutie!!!
Sleeping with Mommy....
At Middlebury College during a Korean Culture Club dinner for Korean Adoptees with Marc playing on the piano. 
Playing with Mommy's baskets.
Just love it!!!
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. Ryan absolutely loves turkey!!
Ryan got this AWESOME sled from his Godparents, Amy and Jeremy.
Ryan with Amy and Jeremy.
Ryan loves playing with Abbie's cage. Abbie...not sure what she thinks about that.
Ryan loves looking out the windows.
Trying to get a family photo for the Xmas card.
Our little Eskimo in his AWESOME sled.
Setting up the Xmas train with Daddy.
Swimming with Mommy. Ryan LOVES the water!!!
Sleepy boy!!
Celebrating Xmas with the boys...
Celebrating Xmas with Papa and Meme.
Ryan's First Xmas
Ryan was playing Peak-A-Boo with the new curtains.
Celebrating Xmas with Nana.
New Shoes!!
LOVES playing in Abbie's water bowl. Ugh...
Watching Signing Time with Alex and Leah...doing "More"
Playing Piano with Mommy.
Playing piano...
Showing off my crawling skills.
Once again looking out the window.
Started taking Baths in the BIG bath tube. No more sink.
Look at my pearly whites.
On the last warm day before winter started, we took Ryan to the park. He loved the swings!!!
Ryan played with this ball forever. I just love this picture of him. He would roll it away from him, and go crawl to it. And start all over again.
What a cutie!!!
Sleeping with Mommy....
At Middlebury College during a Korean Culture Club dinner for Korean Adoptees with Marc playing on the piano.
Playing with Mommy's baskets.
Just love it!!!
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. Ryan absolutely loves turkey!!
Ryan got this AWESOME sled from his Godparents, Amy and Jeremy.
Ryan with Amy and Jeremy.
Ryan loves playing with Abbie's cage. Abbie...not sure what she thinks about that.
Ryan loves looking out the windows.
Trying to get a family photo for the Xmas card.
Our little Eskimo in his AWESOME sled.
Setting up the Xmas train with Daddy.
Swimming with Mommy. Ryan LOVES the water!!!
Sleepy boy!!
Celebrating Xmas with the boys...
Celebrating Xmas with Papa and Meme.
Ryan's First Xmas
Ryan was playing Peak-A-Boo with the new curtains.
Celebrating Xmas with Nana.
New Shoes!!
LOVES playing in Abbie's water bowl. Ugh...
Watching Signing Time with Alex and Leah...doing "More"
Playing Piano with Mommy.
Playing piano...
Showing off my crawling skills.
Once again looking out the window.
Started taking Baths in the BIG bath tube. No more sink.
Look at my pearly whites.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Congrats to Our Friends!!!
After all the praying everyone did this week, our friends recieved a call yesterday telling them their son was finally coming home on Friday. We are so excited for them!!!! CONGRATS!!!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Prayer Request....
Hi, Everyone.
I am working on the November post, but I wanted to ask for a prayer request from you. Our friends are waiting for their son to come home from Korea, and it has been over four and half months of waiting. They finally had their son's Visa get issued, but are just waiting for the phone call to say he is coming home. Please pray for them. It is difficult for anyone to wait, but even more so when you have to wait for as long as they have. They are amazing people with such kind and loving hearts. Thanks.
I am working on the November post, but I wanted to ask for a prayer request from you. Our friends are waiting for their son to come home from Korea, and it has been over four and half months of waiting. They finally had their son's Visa get issued, but are just waiting for the phone call to say he is coming home. Please pray for them. It is difficult for anyone to wait, but even more so when you have to wait for as long as they have. They are amazing people with such kind and loving hearts. Thanks.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Late October 2008
Ryan has transitioned so smoothly that I can’t remember what life was like before he came home. He amazes me every day with new things that he does. For months many people have been asking for updates on Ryan and pictures. It isn’t that we have been ignoring those requests, but we have been enjoying every moment we can with Ryan. We have created a photo sharing site with Shutterfly for all of our pictures because we are going to do limited pictures on this blog. I am sure you can imagine how many pictures we have since I am a picture freak! If you would like the address to the other photo blog, please email me.
Ryan arrived home on October 22, 2008 at approximately 8:30 pm. Our agency greeter at the airport was an adoptive mom of two children (pre-teen and teen) from Korea, and it turned out that she knew Dave’s Dad and Stepmom making the event even more special. It was the 10th anniversary of her daughter coming home from Korea that day, and we were so excited that she would get to see Ryan come home. We were also joined by a photographer (an adoptive mom of two boys from Vietnam – http://www.deannadimarziophotography.com/) and her husband to take pictures for us. They are absolutely amazing photos, and if you would like to see them email me. There are pictures of me jumping up and down like an excited kid, and she took one with my feet not even touching the ground. No tears for me! I was way too excited for Ryan to come home. She went down with the greeter to take some pictures before we saw Ryan, which was great to see those after the fact. I can’t tell you how amazing that moment was when Ryan and his escort came up from the terminal. He was absolutely the most beautiful baby, and wasn’t crying. We have definitely learned he loves to explore and loves new adventures. We sent a photo book with our pictures (all labeled in Korean) and two books with a tape recording of us reading them. I would HIGHLY recommend families to do this. Ryan looked at us like he knew us, and even recognized our voices as we spoke to him as the escort held him. He came right to us, and didn’t cry once even with the poop in his pants (that told me he was comfortable). The escort handed him to us very quickly because the carrier she was carrying him in was way too small for him and her. She was this tiny little thing carrying this very large baby. I predicted that Ryan would be maybe 20 pounds when he came home, but oh no, he was heavier. Here is our first official family photo (actually our second but that is okay).
He had this little bracelet, like newborns in the hospital, to identify him. It was just so precious. He was dressed in one set of pajamas and another outfit over that. I could only imagine how hot he was, and he lost one sock as they got off the plane. We never did find the sock, but socks not staying on his feet is very common for him. It was so nice to spend that first night with him in the hotel. Most of the time it was just him and I, and I learned so much about him in the first 12 hours. He did take two naps that night probably around his nap time in Korea (they were 13 hours ahead in time). He has the cutest yawn, and looks at you so deeply checking every feature out on your face. He slept the whole car ride home, but we left at his bed time in Korea, which helped. One of our favorite pictures is right when we left the hotel in the car. We put Ryan in the car seat in his “kabuki suit” (as Dave calls it), and he grinned at me sitting behind him as we drove away. Almost like he had a little secret, so I snapped a picture.
We saw the doctor after getting home, and he was just great! Ryan did really well too. He weighed almost 23 pounds and was 30.5 inches (which we have later found out was wrong…probably more like 29.5 inches).
Dave was home for the first two weeks with me, so we were able to rest and spend time with Abbie too. One of the first days Ryan was home we took a walk with Abbie, and he loves being in the stroller. Another favorite picture of ours is from our first walk as a family of four. We hung low for the first week and a half, but we had a house full for Halloween. Two of my aunts, my cousin and her family and our good friends with their son came to have dinner and go trick a treating. Ryan was a dragon for his first Halloween. He was so cute! Here are some pictures from the events. He made it for about 30 minutes, and he was out for the rest of the walk around the neighborhood.
Ryan arrived home on October 22, 2008 at approximately 8:30 pm. Our agency greeter at the airport was an adoptive mom of two children (pre-teen and teen) from Korea, and it turned out that she knew Dave’s Dad and Stepmom making the event even more special. It was the 10th anniversary of her daughter coming home from Korea that day, and we were so excited that she would get to see Ryan come home. We were also joined by a photographer (an adoptive mom of two boys from Vietnam – http://www.deannadimarziophotography.com/) and her husband to take pictures for us. They are absolutely amazing photos, and if you would like to see them email me. There are pictures of me jumping up and down like an excited kid, and she took one with my feet not even touching the ground. No tears for me! I was way too excited for Ryan to come home. She went down with the greeter to take some pictures before we saw Ryan, which was great to see those after the fact. I can’t tell you how amazing that moment was when Ryan and his escort came up from the terminal. He was absolutely the most beautiful baby, and wasn’t crying. We have definitely learned he loves to explore and loves new adventures. We sent a photo book with our pictures (all labeled in Korean) and two books with a tape recording of us reading them. I would HIGHLY recommend families to do this. Ryan looked at us like he knew us, and even recognized our voices as we spoke to him as the escort held him. He came right to us, and didn’t cry once even with the poop in his pants (that told me he was comfortable). The escort handed him to us very quickly because the carrier she was carrying him in was way too small for him and her. She was this tiny little thing carrying this very large baby. I predicted that Ryan would be maybe 20 pounds when he came home, but oh no, he was heavier. Here is our first official family photo (actually our second but that is okay).
He had this little bracelet, like newborns in the hospital, to identify him. It was just so precious. He was dressed in one set of pajamas and another outfit over that. I could only imagine how hot he was, and he lost one sock as they got off the plane. We never did find the sock, but socks not staying on his feet is very common for him. It was so nice to spend that first night with him in the hotel. Most of the time it was just him and I, and I learned so much about him in the first 12 hours. He did take two naps that night probably around his nap time in Korea (they were 13 hours ahead in time). He has the cutest yawn, and looks at you so deeply checking every feature out on your face. He slept the whole car ride home, but we left at his bed time in Korea, which helped. One of our favorite pictures is right when we left the hotel in the car. We put Ryan in the car seat in his “kabuki suit” (as Dave calls it), and he grinned at me sitting behind him as we drove away. Almost like he had a little secret, so I snapped a picture. We saw the doctor after getting home, and he was just great! Ryan did really well too. He weighed almost 23 pounds and was 30.5 inches (which we have later found out was wrong…probably more like 29.5 inches).Dave was home for the first two weeks with me, so we were able to rest and spend time with Abbie too. One of the first days Ryan was home we took a walk with Abbie, and he loves being in the stroller. Another favorite picture of ours is from our first walk as a family of four. We hung low for the first week and a half, but we had a house full for Halloween. Two of my aunts, my cousin and her family and our good friends with their son came to have dinner and go trick a treating. Ryan was a dragon for his first Halloween. He was so cute! Here are some pictures from the events. He made it for about 30 minutes, and he was out for the rest of the walk around the neighborhood.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Early Morning Email on Arrival Day
As soon as we woke up we checked the flight information for Ryan's flight, and everything is going well. They even left 5 minutes early. So, I also thought I would check my email. And we received an email from Betsey at the agency. She received her morning email from Korea with information about Ryan and his departure. And we received a new picture!!!!!
I have mentioned before that the foster family loves him so much, and we knew this departure would be very difficult for him. He is their first foster son, and I really hope they continue to be foster parents. They have amazing hearts, and we consider them part of our family. Many times we just think of the foster mom, but in this case I knew this departure was going to be difficult for the foster brother, sister and father. Please pray for their hearts to feel, and they know that they are important people in our son's life forever. Dave and I both cried when we read this email from Betsey. I wish I could explain how my heart feels in words, but I am not sure their are words that can. My heart breaks for them, but I am also excited he is coming home. It is bitter sweet.
Basically the email from Betsey said that they could see how much the foster family loved him, they came together to see him off from the agency, the foster father was upset visibly after Ji-Seong left, and they sent us lots of gifts (I can not begin to thank them!!!!). They are requesting a photo asap, to let the family know he is okay. (Which if you haven't figured out I love pictures. We will have plenty!!!)
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Boston
We arrived this evening in Boston for the arrival of Ryan tomorrow. We have enjoyed a nice dinner at Saracino in the North End of Boston. It was sooooo yummy!!! Now we are just relaxing. The hotel we are staying in is right next to the airport. We can walk across the sky bridge to get to the airport. Ryan should be taking off from Korea in two hours!!!! And be home in less than 24 hours. You can actually watch his flight across the US from San Fransico on the net. Go to this website http://www.massport.com/logan/details_select.aspx
Yep, that is a green dragon costume for Ryan to wear on Halloween....
Email or text me and I can send you the flight information.
I can't wait for tomorrow!!!!! Only 45 minutes until tomorrow!!!
Here are some pictures of Ryan's room. I haven't finished, but that is okay. I can finish in the next couple of weeks.
Yep, that is a green dragon costume for Ryan to wear on Halloween....Saturday, October 18, 2008
The Unpredictable World of Adoption
RYAN IS COMING HOME!!!!!
We recieved a phone call yesterday at 11:30 am to let us know Ryan is coming home on Wednesyda, October 22nd. To show you how unpredictable the world of adoption is, I talked to the agency on Thursday afternoon. They were telling me that he probably wouldn't come home until mid-November. I was not very happy, and was finally at the point I couldn't take it anymore. Well, even our agency didn't know on Thrusday that he was coming home until Friday morning. Adoption is so unpredictable, and it can drive you insane. So, our baby is coming home, and we can't wait. Thank you for all your support during this long journey.
I will post more, but right now all I know is that he will be coming to Boston Wednesday night. Once I know more, I will let everyone know. We don't even know how big he is right because we haven't seen any medical updates since the end of July. What an amazing journey, and I would not change a thing. It was hard yes, but well worth it.
We recieved a phone call yesterday at 11:30 am to let us know Ryan is coming home on Wednesyda, October 22nd. To show you how unpredictable the world of adoption is, I talked to the agency on Thursday afternoon. They were telling me that he probably wouldn't come home until mid-November. I was not very happy, and was finally at the point I couldn't take it anymore. Well, even our agency didn't know on Thrusday that he was coming home until Friday morning. Adoption is so unpredictable, and it can drive you insane. So, our baby is coming home, and we can't wait. Thank you for all your support during this long journey.
I will post more, but right now all I know is that he will be coming to Boston Wednesday night. Once I know more, I will let everyone know. We don't even know how big he is right because we haven't seen any medical updates since the end of July. What an amazing journey, and I would not change a thing. It was hard yes, but well worth it.
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