Time to pack our bags!!!

We are confirmed for travel! Seriously, it is hard to believe that it is time!!! I am so excited and nervous and THRILLED that our son is coming home!!! We have waited a long time and dreamed of this day and now we actually know what day he will be in our arms and we know what day he will be home!!!!

I thought I was prepared but now I am realizing just how much needs to get done in the next 2 weeks! So exciting! The next 2 weeks are going to fly by!

We are busy busy busy booking our flights. Our options are very limited (and expensive) and our travel agent has has to get REALLY creative to get us there. Instead of using the typical US airliner we are actually having to fly up into Canada and using Canada Air to get us on our way! We also could not find any flights to get us there the exact dates we wanted so we will be leaving a day early and getting in a day early. This is actually what I preferred to do so I can rest up for Gotcha Day!

So we leave on August 5th, Malachi will be forever in our arms on August 8th, and we will be home as a family on August 13th! I will hopefully be able to blog from Ethiopia. Some families have luck with it and some don't so we will see how the internet behaves while we are there. Ah, I can hardly believe it - we're going to Ethiopia in 2 weeks!!!

We got our final update on our little man - er, not so little man :) Get this - so the last pictures I got of him I hardly even recognized him because he is a chubby little man :) Well, his final update says it all. So he just turned 3 months and he weighs almost a whopping 16 lbs!!! So I washed and prepared all of his 3-6 months size clothes but apparently they won't do. So I am washing and packing 6-9 month size stuff now :) I put in all of his stats that we got and he is above the 95% for height and in the 90% for weight. Hannah's Hope sure has taken good care of my boy :)

They also said that he should be comfortable with us right away and that I can feel free to hold him as soon as I meet him - YAY!!! They also said he enjoys classical music and being rocked - another yay for cuddle time!!! I seriously can't wait!!!

So needless to say we are quite busy around here. So much to do to prepare. I thought we were ahead of the game but now I look around my dirty house and see piles of new baby things that need washed and I realize just how fast these next 2 weeks are going to go.