WE ARE OFFICIALLY OUT OF REVIEW!

We are now officially out of the review room. As you can see, the CCAA has updated its website, indicating that it has now reviewed the dossiers submitted on or before September 30, 2006. YEEEAAHHH!!!! September is one BIG month. At least we are LID 9/8/06, which is sort of in the beginning. To all of the rest Sept 06 LID'ers, CONGRATS!!!

Our Christmas Tree is Beautiful!!!

A couple of days ago we put up our Christmas tree. We are very excited about it. This year I decided to incorporate ornaments symbolizing our 3 children, namely Sebastián Ignacio, our angel daughter Bibiana Isabel and Mei Ling Mercedes. As you can see, Sebastián has his picture as well as his footprints, Bibiana Isabel has a beautiful and very much perfect ornament (in the middle because we know she watches and will always watch over both Sebastián and Mei Ling), and Mei Ling has 2 ornaments which we got from http://www.jiinkinkids.com/. They are beautiful. Do check them out. The cool thing is that I was even able to get one of them personalized, and even in Spanish. How cool is that!!!

Sebastián and his first picture with Santa

This past Friday, I was with my dh in the supermarket and all of a sudden I saw this Santa. I told Florencio that he had to go get the camera in the car, so that we could take a picture of Sebastián with Santa. Well, as it turned out, I asked and they had this promotion from Borinquen Royal that if you purchased one of their boxes of cookies, you got a free picture with Santa. Well, we put Sebastián in Santa's lap, and he did not cry. Instead he smiled, and kept tugging at Santa's beard. We got this picture with our camera, and another one with the Christmas tree behind. Santa told us that normally all the babies cried, but not our Sebastián. The cool thing is that this is one of those firsts that we will also be able to have with Mei Ling Mercedes. By the way, as of this past Saturday, Sebastián is already 7 months old.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving along with all of their family and friends, from all of our family (Odemaris + Florencio + Sebastián, who hope to celebrate it soon with Mei Ling Mercedes) Feliz Día de Acción de Gracias a todos de parte de nuestra familia!!!

Today is a day in which I have to thank God for helping me believe again, both in me and in him, for letting us have faith in that I could go through, both emotionally and physically, through another pregnancy, for the fact that even through a difficult pregnancy Sebastian Ignacio is very healthy and is the sunlight of our lives, for helping us keep a positive vibe through this awfully long wait to bring Mei Ling Mercedes home, for our families, for helping us keep our angel Bibiana always present in our heart, our health and happiness, and for the fact that we were able to make our little angel Bibiana very much loved, even if for a short period of time. For all of these things we give thanks.

OMG WE ARE SUPPOSEDLY OUT OF REVIEW!!!

Finally, something BIGGGG TO CELEBRATE. A friend of mine, Dimari, sent me an email congratulating us because we were out of review. The thing is that her agency sent her an update email indicating that all of September 2006 was out of review. Well, as a SEPTEMBER 8 2006 LID, THAT MEANS US... Matching room, here we come. It will be another long trek, but it is ONE BIG HURDLE THAT WE HAVE OVERCOME. Yeah!!! Today we are going out for Chinese food. Mei Ling Mercedes, mama, baba and your big brother are coming to get you, maybe not tomorrow, but we will get there someday. Te queremos mucho!!!

14 MONTH LID ANNIVERSARY

Well, today is our 14 month LID Anniversary. The thing is that there are rumors out there that we may have to wait like 2 more years to bring Mei Ling home. The sad thing is that we thought Mei Ling would be home by this Christmas when we started out. Now it may be 2 more Christmases without her, and it stinks big time. A lot of people are like it is better because Sebastián will be older. Well you know, we never thought that old... We always imagined them to be very, very, very close in age, and I don't think that is going to happen. Bummer!!!

The CCAA just updated their website. They referred up to December 8 LID families this month. Whatever!!! Exactly 9 more months to get to us. Who knows, maybe now they will speed up, or maybe not. It is hard to keep hoping for better news each month, you know.

Sebastián is already 6 months old. Where did the time go? He is huge!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Happy Halloween from Darth Vader, the Witch and Mommy's "Pollito" hanging on to his Candy Booty!!!