November 6

Well, I would have written sooner but I’ve been holding my precious little son 23 of the last 25 hours! What an amazing experience this is! He is absolutely adorable and is so good natured. The experience at the orphanage was very overwhelming yesterday and there are SO many babies there who need homes. I so desperately wanted to take a few more with me. However, we have been blessed with the most precious little boy. I’m in awe of how God prepared our son for us. He was born on the other side of the globe a few months ago and now HE has finally allowed us to be with him! I’m so humbled to think that I have the honor of raising this precious boy who was born to another woman in a country that I knew very little about. I am so excited about sharing my son’s heritage with him in the upcoming years and telling him about this extraordinary woman who loved him so much that she sacrificed her own happiness so that he could have a better life. How blessed we are indeed!. We are staying in hotel where many employees speak some English. They even have cabs waiting for us in the parking lots at all times. All you do is tell the door man where you want to go and he translates that into Vietnamese for the cab driver and off you go! I can’t even tell you what a relief that is! We took Bryce to the international medical clinic today which was and adventure. From what I could understand (which wasn’t vey much)Bryce has a rash, an upper respiratory infection and a small laceration in his ear. He is only 9 pounds! However, none are serious and we have antibiotics to hopefully clear them all up. They want to see him again in 2 days. The Giving and Receiving Ceremony (the actual adoption preceding)was amazing. I’ll share more about that another day. Tonight is Authentic Italian Cuisine Night at the hotel so we are meeting the other families for dinner in just a few minutes. We are really looking forward to a good dinner! Love to you all.