Journey to Emmy

This is our blog to keep family and friends updated on our journey with our two children. Emmy was born in China and came home in 2005. Aidan was born in Guatemala and came home in 2008. Remember that the entries are listed the most recent first. If you want to read a past entry that's not shown, look to left in the archive column. We love to get comments too (at the end of each entry click on the "Comments" line)! If you want see a larger version of a picture, just click on it.

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Monday, June 25, 2007

Updated pictures of our boy!


Here is one of the updated pics we received along with some information from his 1-month doctor check-up. Everything sounded good, he has gained weight and seems developmentally on target.

I opened up this picture on my computer, burst into tears and that's all she wrote- I love him. I really would have preferred to hold off a little bit till we're further along in the process but that's not how it works. You feel what you feel. For all my realistic warnings to everyone about the potential downfalls of this process, I am the one who'll have no part of it now. Yes, I will still issue my cautionary warnings whenever we start to go overboard with positiveness. But I want him to be our son and Emmy's brother.

By the way, we are naming him Aidan Jose' (initials will be A.J., how cute is that?). But when you ask Emmy what her baby brother's name is, she says "Gua-maya" (translation: Guatemala).

As far as the updated on our process, we were told that our case is currently in translation and will be sent to Family Court next. The next step will be the DNA test with his birth mother.

4 Comments:

Blogger Sam said...

What a little cutie!!!! Can't wait to meet him!

Are you shopping in August???

12:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well little Aidan, let me introduce the Smith's. My name is TaTa (named by your big sister) and Ralph (said very loudly). We're big fans of little people and enjoy playing often. Now with that said, I'm not sure if Emmy will let me hold you (Ralph will probably get to) while she's there but you are very special to us and we can't wait until you come home. Good Luck little guy while you are away from us. You are in our hearts and we can't wait to meet you.
Congratulations again Lisa, Dave and Emmy on a beautiful new addition to your family (and ours too).

Love ya,

TaTa and Ralph

3:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lisa, Dave & Emmy,

What a great picture of little A.J. I will send all kinds of love and prayers to the entire family. How's this for good karma: I checked the blog right after I finished a kundalini meditation/chant for bringing peace to the world. Then on the blog I see this beautiful face. And, as you said, even if this little boy isn't part of the forever family (hard to imagine), he needs all the love and support we can give him to get him to his parents.
Love, Mare

4:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I know you've told us not to get too attached to the little guy, but I have a feeling that maybe it's too late for that. Little Aidan is already part of us, even if he's still a half a world away being taken care of by other people.
And by the way, Aidan, I'm NaNa, and I have a feeling that all of my patience will finally pay off, because I will probably get to hold you since I've been playing second fiddle all this time and Emmy won't mind so much. We (me and DoeDoe) can't wait to meet you and love you as much as we love Emmy.
Lisa, Dave and Emmy, Aidan is such a lucky little guy to have the three of you to come home to. He'll probably never fully realize how lucky he really is until he's grown, but we'll all know. We love you all.
NaNa and DoeDoe

2:21 PM  

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