Week Three

Tomorrow (Monday) will be three weeks since we were submitted to court.  We were told by our agency that hopefully this week we will get a date for the first court.  However, we also need the MOWCYA letter of consent in order to get the go-ahead to travel.  Unfortunately, it seems like these final letters have been delayed to most people currently in the Ethiopian adoption process.  None of us are sure what is holding things up, but we are all praying that they get back into gear SOON.

Gratefully, we heard from a traveling family this past weekend who was picking up their children in Ethiopia.  Our kids are at the same orphanage that their children were and so this family not only spent time with our kids but also took pictures and even a video!  We have been blessed to get little video snippets along the way, but it is still always thrilling to see news ones of them moving around.   We watch them over and over, gazing at their little faces and observing all their slight actions.  (In this video they were blowing bubbles.) :)

It breaks our hearts to have watched them grow up in pictures for almost a year now, but these updates from other families have always been an encouragement to us.  We are thankful for each of them (there are many) who took the time to take photos and videos, play with them, hug them, deliver gifts and pray over them.  We are trusting God that He is comforting their hearts and keeping them safe until we can bring them home.