Author: Brendon

Adoption update

So here’s the update on adoption. You know we’ve received a couple of photos and some biographical info on Myung Hee–that’s called an “assignment”. However, we won’t be traveling until probably June or July. It could be sooner, but it could also be later. Holt (the agency we’re going through) tells us to expect to travel sometime between 3 months and 8 months from now. That’s quite a spread, but they tell us that they’re usually seeing folks traveling at around 5 months after assignment.

We’ll get monthly “well baby” reports on Myung Hee, but probably no more photos between now and the time we travel.

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Names

Time to really start thinking about baby names. Truman and his cousin Benjamin have been working overtime on it. Here are some of their ideas:

  • Edwin Doodlebody Karate
  • Kimo
  • Natuchaka
  • Bearison

More to come, I’m sure.

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Another boy!

Just got word that we’re the proud parents of another boy! Not much in the way of details yet, but here’s what I know:

Born Nov. 19th, 7lbs at birth. Name: Yoo Myung Hee

We’ll get a picture and more info tonight. Yay for us! 🙂

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MLK Day hike

Went hiking this morning with Ron. We tossed around a few ideas…Dog Mountain, King’s Mountain, Eagle Creek. The Gorge was all icy and we’d already done King’s Mountain, so in the end, we just walked the Cape Lookout trail. It was pretty wet and windy! Some parts of the trail cut along a steep hillside that dropped off to the ocean…kinda freaky when there’s no guardrail and the wind is blowing you around…

It was a fairly short hike–about 40 minutes each way. Afterward we intended to drive to the top of Mt. Hebo and do the short hike to the summit, but we ended up getting nearly stuck in some snow, so we just turned around.

Overall, it was a nice day off…

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Food groups

For a few months now, our family has joined with eight or nine other families in making meals for one another. The way it works is that once per month, each family makes nine or ten (depending upon how many families are participating) frozen meals. Then they meet at one of the houses and swap meals. So you spend a couple of hours per month preparing a whole bunch of meals (all the same), then you give them away. But you get a whole bunch of different meals in return.

Last night the swap was at our house. At the swap, people not only swap meals, but also rate the meals they ate the previous month. That way folks know whether they should make something again. Ideally, people get two or three meals that “work” and they just rotate them from month to month. One other cool thing they’re doing this month is they’re going to make extra meals and donate them to the local Love, Inc office…

Anyway, Amy and my sister and a few other friends started the group and now another group is forming and my guess is that at least one more will begin before too long.

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