May...moving right along!

YAY, it's MAY!  My favorite month of the year!  Mostly because it is my birthday, and Miss T's birthday, the weather is beautiful and at least this year it means we are 1 more month closer to H. 
Have I mentioned that I go back & forth between calling H, well H and M.  One is his American name, one his Korean.  I am quite attached to his Korean name, and feel it best represents him, but I have read in several places giving a "traditional" American name is suggested too.  For several reasons I am sure.  1--it allows us to give him part of who he is, which is nice but not uber important.  2--while he will be Korean, he will also be American, and I have read where several Koreans, adoptees and "transplants" feel it is helpful to have that name to match part of his identity.  Anyway, M, is his name and will always be, and much like my others go by more than one name (i.e. "buggy) I believe M/H will too!

Ok, I digress.  It is May.  I will admit I really hoped and prayed for a little May birthday miracle that M/H would have his paperwork submitted in May, but I knew it was a looonnnnggggg shot.  And shocker?!?!?!  I was right, he was not submitted.  Funny thing though (read not.that.funny), somehow I accidentally got a generic email from our agency saying his paperwork WAS submitted.  I of course knew it was a mistake but still got a little giddy.  Thankfully, S, the sound mind he is tamed my excitement.  I spoke to the agency today and she was quite sorry for the mix up.  It's ok, mistakes happen and maybe today was a great day of joy for another family, who had thought they had somehow been missed.

June....I am feel hopeful for June, more hopeful than I had in May.  We are in the single digits as far as where we are in line, and it seems very possible June will be our month!  S called that.  So what does that mean?  Well if M/H's paperwork is submitted in the beginning of June than it would be about a month for approval (maybe 4-5 weeks) then another 2-4 until we can TRAVEL!!!!!!!!!! So mid-July ish maybe.  If we aren't submitted in June than we will hope for July and travel right before somebody's big 2nd birthday in August.  I am hoping for July travel!

In other news, we have stayed busy, with P's t-ball, and practice SOLs, work, work and more work.  Miss T will turn 7 at the end of the month!  I look at her daily and wonder where the time has gone.  She has grown up so much.  She is a smart, sweet, intelligent, compassionate kid.  yesterday she and I were on our way home from Girl Scouts (too close to bedtime) and we were talking about H/M coming home and how excited we are.  She kept saying "I can't wait to see his sweet face!"  So I explained to her that adoption comes out of a lot of loss and H/M will experience a lot of sadness as he makes this transition.  She listened and seemed to really grasp the reality of all of it.  She then said, "maybe one day we can all go to Korea and H/M can visit his foster family. And maybe one day his birth mom can come visit us here!"  Man, I love that kid.  She is amazing.  I am always in awe of the insight she has at a young age and can't wait to see her impact on the world.

Sooo, I hope to update here before her birthday, and be better about keeping up.  We are certainly researching travel stuff and that feels real.  We will end May with a birthday spa day for my girl and head into June with a pre-school graduation and anticipation of some Korean paperwork!!!

Night!