Bittersweet

The holidays this year in the Cooper house are I guess we could call "bittersweet"!!! We are so excited that we have met our baby boy, have held him, have cuddled with him, have given him his oh so perfect name and have fallen absolutely totally in love with him BUT we are so sad that he is not here with us yet in his new home to celebrate the Christmas holidays. We have decided that we will leave all of the decorations up and keep his presents under the tree until he arrives which we are hopeful to be sooner rather than later! This wait between trips is excruciating! Everything is ready and now we are just waiting for HIM!!! We continue to just try and stay as busy as possible as we wait for the phone to ring to tell us...."get going - your little boy is ready to come home!"

Merry Christmas our little angel!!!! Not too much longer and we will be reunited with you and this time we will never let you go again!!!

We love you!!!

Thanksgiving and Shower

My mom and sisters had a fantastic shower for us this past weekend while we were up north for Thanksgiving. Along with the shower, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner and visit with our families!!! It was also so great to see alot of friends that we had not seen for a while. We have so much to give thanks for this year including the wonderful family that we have along with our little angel who we cannot wait to bring home very soon!! We got so much fun stuff for "K" including wonderful books, lots of fun toys and I think he will be the best dressed kid on the block!! :) I sit in his room and dream of us rocking in the glidder reading books for hours on end. We are holding our breathe that we will be hearing very soon about a court date!!! The suitcases have started getting packed so we will be ready to head on the jet plane ASAP!

Stay warm our little angel....we will be there very very soon!!!! We love you!!

Trying to pass the time!

Our Dossier 2 has made it to Vlad and is in the process of being translated. We are hopeful that things will move quickly and it will get submitted to court in record timing. What a great relief it was to get that all completed, notorized, apostilled and mailed off.

Meanwhile, we have been cheering on our Fightin' Philadelphia Phillies, unfortunately, last night was "D" day and they lost the World Series to the NY Yankees. 2 Years in a row certainly would have been fantastic.....we can just hope for a 2010 World Series.

Here's hoping for a quick court date.

Hang on our little angel boy....we are coming back for you very soon.

Sleep tight and sweet dreams. We love you more than you can even imagine.

Happy Halloween

We can't wait for our little goblin to be here next year.

Today is our 10 Year Wedding Anniversary

What a wonderful day of celebration it is for us today. We are celebrating our 10 Year wedding anniversary!!!! We look forward to so much joy and happiness that is going to be added to our lives in just a few short months when we bring our little boy home. We cannot wait to celebrate 50 more anniversaries with our son!
Hang on tight there angel and dream, dream, dream of us, we are coming very very soon.
Our hearts are bursting with love for you!

We are home!

We made it back to the sunny south safe and sound!!! It was very difficult to leave Vlad and our little boy behind. We are working dilligently on the remainder of our documents required for our Dossier #2 and hoping to get back ASAP!
We are working on finishing your room and getting it ready for your arrival!
Hang in there our little angel......you are in our heart and always on our mind!! We will be there soon and you will be coming home before you know it. Stay warm until we can get back to snuggle with you!

Day 4

The day started out by going to the notary and having the official paperwork notorized and then delivered to the Dept of Education. We had some time before it was time to go for our visit with "K" so we went downtown to the seaport/wharf and were able to take a look around and take some pictures. They will be nice to add to our memory book.

Today on our visit with "K" we played outside as the weather was beautiful. We are taking advantage of the nice weather now as when we return for our 2nd trip, the weather will most likely be very cold and snowy! There is a nice playground outside of the Baby Home and also some riding toys that he enjoys mostly pushing around rather than riding on. He also liked going down the slide and swinging on the swing while Daddy pushed him.

As the visit came to an end, it was as difficult as we had imagined it would be. We left him with a blanket and teddy bear for his crib and also a photo album that the caregivers will show him as much as possible of his new family.

We will be saying Goodbye to Vladivostok tomorrow but not for long!!!!! We are counting the days until we can get back here to our baby boy and bring him home forever!!!!

We love you "K". Sleep tight little angel and dream of your mommy and daddy. We will be back for you very very soon.