By now most of you have already read Jo-Ann’s blog and have been informed of our recent update from Korea. Julian is doing well and developing amazingly. He is growing, he is eating properly, he is creeping around and get this, he is even talking a bit. He apparently has a three word vocabulary. His foster mother is doing an amazing job. It is apparent that she is spending time with Julian and teaching/ playing with him. We even received some pictures of him playing. The update says he loves music and he likes to imitate car sounds. There is even some pictures of him in front of a kiddy piano in a blatant attempt to bang on the keys. He is smiling in every picture.
The update comes at a good time. So much time has passed that we were beginning to feel like Julian is so far away and we will never get a chance to meet him. The only pictures that we have of him are when he was 4 months old. He is now just about 8 months. The update brings him closer to us by giving us a glimpse of what he has become in this 4 months of waiting. It was exciting to see the pictures and really kind of crazy to see him in front of a piano of all things. He is becoming a little boy and the only thing that makes me sad about that is we are missing it. The pictures give us a glimpse of it, though, but not enough. I want nothing more than for this process to hurry itself up. It will be soon I keep telling myself and Jo-Ann. Not long now.
We went for our second fingerprints last week. The guy at immigration that took our prints was telling us “it’s not long now, usually people come in for their second prints, the baby comes home shortly after”. Gives us a little hope. All we are waiting for is clearance of our fingerprints, then the issuance of a visa for him to travel. Red tape, red tape, red tape.