All I want for Christmas....Take 2!

YIKES!  As I was looking at my post, I realized some of the text was hard to see and as I was editing it was deleted!  :-(  So, as I had just reread it, here goes the post again :-)

Ok, so now as I am writing this again, I am getting choked up...yep, tears coming, my heart is being squeezed as I look at those eyes and that smile....

So, CHRISTMAS....yes, I can't wait for it.  But I will wait!  And I will decorate, play music and of course put these FABULOUS pictures of my little boy around my house and share one with everyone else who loves him!  M will NOT be here this Christmas!  He will happily play in Haiti with all of his friends and wonderful GLA staff. He will be getting some gifts...and I can't wait to see him in a MINNESOTA Twins shirt (maybe sooner than that as I am going to send one with my friend who is going SOON to meet her daughter.)

Right now my paperwork and M's paperwork is in IBESR and I pray, hope and feel certain that it will be out of IBESR very soon, and this is "ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS!"  To be done with this step, even though there are so many more to come would keep me smiling and floating on Cloud 9 ALL MONTH LONG!

After this step comes a TRIP TO HAITI!!!!  A good friend of mine is going on her trip in just over a week and I believe this will be the last week for trips of 2012....as offices and such close and people go on vacation for Christmas and New Years.  So I am not at all anticipating going to HAITI in 2012 (yes, that is what I had hoped for...but NO that is not what I am expecting now).

OH how I cannot wait to be holding this little dude in a picture to show you!!!!  I have suitcases packed already!  And last Christmas I had a suitcase packed too (upon putting summer clothes away, I packed a suitcase for Haiti...I was "new" and "young" to the adoption process and thought I would be traveling to HAITI soon!)  Now 12 months later, I trust and know it will be soon!  :-)

Here are some things that the WONDERFUL person who takes these pictures each month had to say about M (It get's overwhelming to keep records for all of my students at school, and there are WAY more kids at GLA than in my classroom....HATS off to the staff for making these pictures and updates possible....and yes, if you ask my students at school, on November 15 began to the countdown to new pics!  I received the update after school hours on Friday, so they will see his new pics Monday!)

This month we took hand and foot prints of all the kids at the Main House.  I do my best to have this done about every three months so you have an extra treasure to take home with you when you come and pick up M.   Each child reacts a differently to having their hands and feet painted and then pressed against the paper. The entire process intrigued M.  He enjoyed getting his hands and feet painted and stamping them on the paper.  He wanted to touch everything when his hands had paint on them as soon as he realized it would make marks on whatever he touched.  He was then allowed to just finger paint on paper for a little while.

M really does seem to be most happy and content when he is moving.  We had a volunteer who played guitar for the kids on the nursery balcony for a little while one morning and M just could not help himself from dancing.  The kids were suppose to be sitting nicely to listen but M could only sit for a few moments at a time and would pop up to move to the beat.  It was really sweet and fun to watch.  His nannies had a great time watching him groove as well. 

M weighs 22 pounds and is 31 inches tall (hmmmm that is 2'7")  :-)

I thank this Lord for this SEASON!  I thank HIM for this journey he has me on.  I cannot wait to hold this little boy....to tell him I LOVE HIM....to tickle, kiss, and watch him laugh and dance!

Have a BLESSED 1st of December!  I know you will be hearing from me soon with a post "I AM OUT OF IBESR!"  Pray with me!!!!!

JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THIS SEASON!!!!!!