Less Than 3 Weeks!!

We just learned today that we'll get to spend time with David on April 7th and 8th before he's officially placed with us on the 9th! So it's now less than 3 weeks until we meet him and hold him! We have to go to St. Lucy's after 2:30 on the 7th to meet him. This is great news as it will hopefully give him a chance to get to bond with us a little bit before we take him away. And it means we get to meet him 2 days early! Yeah!!

Everything else for the trip seems to be shaping up. We have hotel reservations in Taipei but still need to make them for Tainan. We were going to stay at a cheap YMCA type hotel near the orphanage but we just got word that St. Lucy's recommends we not stay there because of mosquitoes and because it might be hard to find food. Not sure what this really means but it seems best to listen to the advice we're given and keep everyone happy.

We went to Toys R Us over the weekend and bought more toys for David. We still had some baby toys left over from Annabel but we couldn't resist buying some new things. Some of the new toys are small and we'll take them with us for him to play with when we're in Taiwan. We also bought the girls lots of things - new leapster games and new bikes (their tricycles were getting too small). We enjoy spoiling them too much and they're now old enough that it's becoming a problem. . . they won't get the leapster games until we leave. They have the bikes already and took their first spin around the block today. They both predictably fell even with the training wheels, but that's what helmets are for!

After months of waiting it's now getting so real. . lots to finish up here before we can leave. I (Linda) have a huge pile of tasks on my desk and my 'to do' list seems to be getting longer not shorter every day. Josh is trying to finish writing the draft of his second book and get his first book in decent shape to send to people to review while we're traveling. And we're trying to spend lots of time with the girls. Margaret had surgery last week on her cleft palate so we're also spending time thinking of new and inventive 'soft foods' she can eat and keeping our fingers crossed that everything's healing well.