Went to a conference at the beach and I was stuck behind Vanna White for most of the drive, so I took a pic… Cracked me up! (hint, you’ll have to click the pic and look at the license plate)
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Lack of acknowledgement
I took half a day off on Friday to drive Myung Hee’s paperwork down to the adoption agency’s main office in Eugene. I’d done the same thing for Tru a few years ago, plus I just felt a little bit better about handing over that HUGE check in person rather than sending it via FedEx.
Anyway, it takes a couple of hours to drive to Eugene from Newberg. I listened to an audiobook on the way, so it went pretty fast. I know that the good folks at Holt weren’t expecting me to show up with our paperwork, so their response upon receipt of our stuff was understandable. They just essentially said thanks and we’ll be in touch. And I got back in my car and drove another two hours back home.
But it sure would’ve been nice if they’d had a big old bell that they rang, or at least an ‘ah ooo gah’ horn or something, every time someone brings in their final paperwork. They could ring the bell and everyone in the office could shout “HEY!” or something.
Just looking for a little acknowedgement here… 🙂
New ChangeThis proposal
I’ve got a new ChangeThis proposal up…have a look, cast your vote and pass it around!
If you missed the original posting, you can see it here…
New pics
Finally slapped up some new pics at lunch today…more coming. I’m using a new gallery thingy, though, so go here to see the new ones. Or here to see everything. Or just the Christmas jive…
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.
Numanuma
I have no idea why, but I want to watch this over and over…
Pics!
Here’s Myung Hee (click here for a birth picture):
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.
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! 🙂
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…