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<\/p>\nHi everyone. I am here to write such an exciting update.\u00a0 We received a call from our adoption agency that we have First Approval from Thailand, and we have tentative travel dates to meet Google!!!!!\u00a0 I was hoping we would get this call sooner, but I didn’t want to get my hopes up. So, I was surprised when they called.<\/p>\n
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Things will now move quickly.\u00a0 We filled out literally a pound of paperwork to submit to Homeland Security, and we are waiting to hear back from them.\u00a0 Then the next round of paperwork will come.\u00a0 When we are in Thailand, we will have an interview with the family board.\u00a0 They only meet twice a month, and we have been scheduled for the first board meeting in May.\u00a0 I can’t even believe I am typing this because that means we will need to travel to Thailand at the end of April, and we will meet Google a week before the meeting.<\/p>\n
We have struggled to come up with a name for Google, but Little Miss suggested one that Charles and I loved.\u00a0 Originally, she said she heard it in a dream.\u00a0 So, we are happy with it, and we think it will fit him.\u00a0 Sometimes we still call him Google since that is his nickname in Thailand. We will slowly transition to the name we have given him.\u00a0 We will continue to call him Google here on the blog.\u00a0 Sorry, but we just don’t want his name or Little Miss’s name to be “out there.”<\/p>\n
His smile is just adorable, and it makes me smile.\u00a0 We get pictures every quarter, and in the last round he had the biggest smile, and he was playing with a truck.\u00a0 Little Miss did not give us one smile in any of her pre-adoption pictures, and we were with her a week before she cracked a small one.\u00a0 We went nuts when we saw it.\u00a0 Haha.\u00a0 It’s probably how parents feel when their child takes its first steps.\u00a0 So, seeing Google have a big smile is fun.\u00a0 I am also seeing I need to get our boy some trucks!<\/p>\n
Now, we are in the process of making the guest room into his room, and I have finally come up with an idea.\u00a0 I’ll post some on Instastories and blog about it.<\/p>\n
We have also been trying to prep Little Miss for a brother and what to expect.\u00a0 If you have any tips and advice, I would love to hear it.\u00a0 She is excited and told us she knows he will be sad because she was sad when she left her foster mom. And she will be going to Thailand with us so maybe her presence will make his transition easier.\u00a0\u00a0 Google is about to have a huge transition.\u00a0 I know that this is for the best, but it doesn’t make it any easier.\u00a0 He will be grieving, and I think about his foster family that has raised him for the last two years.\u00a0 Bittersweet.<\/p>\n
My heart is full, and I can’t wait to have my family all together.<\/p>\n
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Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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