The meeting

I did not get a chance to post this until now but here is the video of  the first day we met our son. To explain this video a little bit the director of the ICBF branch in Puerto Asis suggested that we do the meeting in a more relaxed setting. A family member of a ICBF worker opened up her beautiful home to us for this wonderful meeting to take place. It was a very beautiful home situated on acres of land for which the owner also used as a farm. All of the women that are present are ICBF workers who helped prepare our son for meeting us. As you can see they did a WONDERFUL job because he did not cry. It almost seemed as if he new we were his parents and we were coming to pick him up. Excuse my reaction I was in shock and I didn't know what to do with myself . Anyway I hope you enjoy our video and I hope this serves as encouragement for anyone who is thinking of adoption. I promise you will not regret your decision.

Almost a year!

So its almost a year since Elijah has been home and I cant believe it! Elijah's first birthday with us will be next month! He has been such a wonderful child and it feels like hes been with us all his life. I am proud to say he is officially bilingual now but prefers to speak in English! Another shocker! He has also come very far with his speech with out any speech therapy. We have forced him to speak when he wants something by only paying attention to him when he asks for what he wants rather than pointing or making sounds. This has been an AMAZING year. We also had our second post adoption visit with our agency and in another six months we will be ready for our 3rd. I would have to say this has been the best decision we have made and I now know that having a hard time conceiving was actually a blessing in disguise.