Goodbye Zona

This week we were shocked and saddened to lose Zona after a short 4 1/2 years of life. As I was looking through old pictures of Zona, I was surprised to see that almost all of the pictures we have show Sushi and Zona lying side by side. However, ever since Jordan came home the cats had not been so cuddly with each other. Zona never took to Jordan and was rarely seen while he was awake. But the moment he was down in his crib she would make an appearance.
We rescued Sushi and Zona from the wild when they were only 3 weeks old. Here they are lying in our bathroom during the first week we had them.

Here I am feeding Zona a bottle. The cats were so little when they were found that we had to feed them from a bottle for the first couple of weeks.

This is a picture of the cats in the windowsill of our first apartment. They loved to sit here and watch the birds.

Luke and I have both been surprised at how sad we have been about losing Zona. She brought us so much joy (and got rid of a lot of mice in our backyard!) in the last 4 years.

New Pictures!

We were excited to receive new pictures of Hyeon Seo yesterday! Staff from our agency recently traveled to Korea and took pictures and a video of him. We will be receiving the video sometime in the next few days. He looks very well fed and cared for just like Jordan did when he was his age. However, he has much less hair than Jordan did! When we received Jordan's pictures from this age he had so much hair they had to put it in a little ponytail!

We also received a written update on Hyeon Seo. He is currently 7 months old and has started to crawl. He is also trying to pull himself up to stand. It sounds like he is going to be just as busy and active as Jordan! I was surprised how late he goes to bed. He sleeps from 11 p.m. until 9 or 10 a.m. He stays up later than I do! Besides the late bedtime he seems to be a good little sleeper. Although we would love to hug and kiss him right now, we are still in for a long wait. We hope the next several months pass by quickly!

It was fun to see little Hyeon Seo wearing one of the outfits we sent him for Christmas!

Introducing...

Hyeon Seo! On December 10 we received a phone call from our social worker about this precious boy and eagerly accepted the referral. The referral came earlier than expected as our home study was not even completed yet. Last week the home study was finally done, and we received the acceptance paperwork this afternoon. Once that paperwork has made its way to Korea, we are in for a long 8-12 month wait until we can bring our son home. In the meantime we will have to be content to stare at his picture and look forward to any updates we receive from Korea during the next several months. We are so excited to be adding this little sweetheart to our family!