Updates

Around the middle of every month our agency sends an update to families who have received their referral. This mid-month update consists of a photo along with current height and weight measurements.

Also mid-month, families who are adopting children 2 years of age and older are allowed to send a photo and a letter to their future children. We had the opportunity to do this for the first time a couple weeks ago.

At the beginning of the month our agency sends another update (have we mentioned lately how much we love our agency) with more pictures and a personality write-up on the children. We got our first update of this nature a couple days ago. Here's what they wrote (the boys names have been changed as we cannot post that information until they are legally ours):

"Dg and Dr were full of life and spice today, as always, and, as always, greeted me with mischievous grins.  They were busy eating a snack of bread which they kindly offered to me.  Dg also demonstrated a little Ethiopian shoulder dancing from his crib.  When we read them their letter, they listened and smiled wide as they heard about their new family.  They looked at the picture of their new mommy and daddy and almost got in a fight over who was going to hold the picture!  The scuffle was quickly worked out when Dg yanked the picture away and kissed it.  What delightful boys!"

Here is a cropped version of one of the pictures they sent. The piece of paper they are holding is the letter/picture from us. They do indeed have big smiles on their faces.

I think my heart just might burst!