Aiden Update

Today we received an update on Aiden. We were sad to hear that Aiden's finger was recently caught in a drawer while he was playing. Apparently, he likes to empty things out of drawers when he is playing. Sounds like another little boy I know! Anyway, his finger must have been caught pretty badly because the whole fingernail on the second finger of his right finger came completely off! The fingernail is starting to grow back now, but that's about all we know. It's hard knowing that our baby was hurt so far away from us and we are unable to comfort him. But we are so thankful to know that he has a loving foster mother to provide him with the comfort he needs! Here is some more information we received in the update:

• He likes to bathe


• He crawls on his knees and sits on his own


• He babbles a lot and is loud!


• He laughs when he is in a good mood


• Along with formula he has started to eat solid food. One food he likes to eat is rice wrapped in seaweed. This is so interesting to me because Jordan just loves seaweed! He requests it at every meal (no exaggeration!) Maybe he was fed seaweed as a baby too.


• He goes to bed at around 11 or midnight. I don't know what is up with that! That is way past my bedtime! We'll have to make some adjustments to that schedule after he comes home.

Although we were concerned to hear about Aiden's injury, we are so glad to hear that he is happy and healthy. It's been over 2 months since our paperwork made its way to Korea, so now we are down to a 6-10 month wait. It's hard being separated from our son, but we know he will be worth every minute of the wait!

I600 approval!

On Saturday we received a notice in the mail saying that our I600 has been approved! We were surprised this came so soon because we were just fingerprinted on March 4. With Jordan, it took much longer to receive this approval. So this means that until it is time to issue the visa, the U.S. side of things is basically done. Unfortunately, we are still in for a long wait as the Korean side of things is progressing very slowly. The next thing we are waiting for is EP (emmigration permission) but don't expect to hear that Aiden has that until September at the earliest.

When we went to get fingerprinted we told Jordan that we were doing it so that we could bring baby Aiden home. On the ride home from the appointment Jordan said, "Baby Aiden at Jordie's house now?" Ah, Jordan, I wish it were that quick and simple!

Cabin Fever

Although I'm getting pretty sick of the cold and snowy weather around here, Jordan has managed to have fun during these last few weeks of winter. I continue to be amazed by how he can use his imagination to pretend an ordinary object is something else entirely. And because he is a boy through and through, he usually pretends the ordinary object is a truck or something else with wheels!

I hate cold, winter weather so I am not very good about taking Jordan outside. Luckily, his daddy is much better about playing outside with Jordan during the winter months. Here is Jordan getting ready for a rare afternoon outside in the snow.

As I said earlier, Jordan can use his imagination to pretend that any object is a truck or something with wheels. For several days in a row, Jordan was obsessed with this "tractor." Every day he would tell me to make the tractor which simply meant stacking up a bunch of pillows and throwing a blanket over the stack. He would pretend that the top pillow was the steering wheel and would ask Luke or me to sit next to him so that he could take us for a drive in the tractor. We traveled in the tractor to the mall, the library, church, and to Houseman's for an ice cream cone.

After pretending to drive the tractor for awhile, he would get out to make sure the headlights were working. He would crouch down and examine the front pillows and then say, "Headlights working!" and climb back in the driver's seat. He also would take some of his play food and put it in the back of the tractor. He would say, "Jordie putting food in trunk" and then climb back in to drive some more. It was so much fun to see his imagination at work!

One afternoon when I was doing laundry Jordan took my laundry basket and tipped it over on its side. Then he grabbed two pillows from the living room and put them on either side of the basket. He sat inside the laundry basket and told me that he was driving a Bobcat. I thought that was pretty creative thinking!


Last Sunday Luke and I kept Jordan home from church because he had symptoms of a cold. So instead of going to church we spent the morning at the children's museum. We took a lot of pictures while we were there but have very few to share. Jordan is so busy that it can be almost impossible to take a good picture of him!

Jordan loved pushing this little shopping cart all around the museum!

Jordan's favorite thing to do at the museum is to drive this car. It is a Volkswagen so he always says that he is driving Mommy's car whenever he sits in it. Whenever Jordan sees a Volkswagen driving down the road he says, "Mommy's car!" and whenever he sees a Nissan he says, "Daddy's car!"