Thank you so much for all of the enthusiastic, thoughtful, loving messages you have been sending our way. We really, really, really appreciate your notes! Your excitement, support & your prayers for us are such an encouragement!!!
We are hoping for more information this week. We are eager for a definite travel date so we can get the ball rolling on those airline reservations and the plenteous paperwork that needs our attention!
We have had lots of questions about the date we'll leave: right now the Colombia program director said to tentatively plan on January 6th - 7th and we are hoping to fly in about a day + before so we can rest and be as fresh as possible for the kids.
As far as sizes go for clothes, etc. - I really am not sure if I will be able to get that information or not. I am going to try to request their weights, heights, etc. but don't even know if that information is available. As far as car seats go, I am not sure how to go about this either. *If any of you experienced Colombian Mamis out there know how to go about this, please let me know! Actually, we could use any tip you have to offer us!!!*
We have had a good day. Worship service & SS were great. It was fun to share with our friends at church about our referral for the children. We had a nice lunch out with our friends and then we came home and relaxed. We also had a planning session for the week's activities including getting ready for this week's Thanksgiving festivities!
In addition to all this, I took on our massive pile of returns! I organized the items by store with their designated receipts: they are now ready for take-back!
Karl has been putting up cabinet doors, putting tools away, and doing a bunch of miscellaneous things to get the house ready for my sister and her family who will be coming to stay with us this weekend. This just happens to be very timely as we need this stuff done anyway since the kids will be here s-o-o-n!!! This just gives us extra incentive! Also, her three kiddos will help us see areas we need to "tweak" as far as child-proofing the house goes!
Lots of reasons to be thankful!
7 comments:
Oh BOY! How exciting. Congratulations. You will be in our prayers as you prepare to bring your three new treasures home. Congrats again, Beth (CHI Family Member)
Just wanted to say YIPEEE again!!
Just wanted to say congrats! We are so excited for you guys. We are praying for your new adventure :) We are still waiting for our referral for a sibling group of 3 and it is so encouraging to see things still moving! (also a fellow CHI member)
I'm sooo excited! Tears... sniff, sniff... I can't wait to love, hold and play with our little ones! God is so good!
Love, Momma G
Chad and I are very happy and excited to hear your wonderful news. Can't wait to hear more about it at Thanksgiving!!!
Love, Amanda
You probably won't even bring carseats. Most taxis are too small for all of you to fit with car seats. You will have to hold the smallest two on your laps in all likelihood.
The only reason we brought a carseat was as a gift to my SIL and she is letting us use it while we are in Medellin. We won't take it to Bogota. We did load the carseat in the car so that it is there to meet us at the airport when we come home.
Car seats--they dont use seat belts in colombia and you probably won't see any car seats...for you when you get back??? We have a 3,4,and 5y/o and had to up-size our trailblazer to a sub-burbie! The trailblazer would have worked, but would have been tight with 3 car seats...
Actually, we ended up with 2 boosters (with backs--they are safer than just the bottom seats for our little ones; once they get bigger those will work for them.) Then we had a baby seat, I think it is the next size up seat for Diego.
Now, we didn't have a lot of money to be buying seats..we were really strapped with finances. But, we had a friend from Church who was part of a online group called freecycle and got our carseat for Diego; and it is really nice. The two boosters were about $60 each from Walmart, Ben's brother gave them to us as shower gifts...In Colombia, we utilized strollers. We were so desperate in Florencia we just bought two. In Bogota they had some that we could use at the Refugio. We already bought them...which if you buy in country you dont have to worry about carrying in airport...I better stop gabbing, but if interested I can email you more privately...sorry for the long post! (Really psyched for you guys! It is fun seeing other young couples adopting sibling groups! We will have to share stories!)
Wendi
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