Going Home

Well we weren't able to update everyone like we have hoped but we had an amazing week with our boy! We got to meet him on Tues. he is a chunky 23lb baby, no signs of malnutrition and he seems to be right on track, he is so sweet and calm. Very ticklish! We got to spend about 2 hours a day with him and had so much fun! Our court date went fine, there is still one paper they needed from his city of birth but they said that was not a big deal to get. We got to meet lots of different adoptive families and experience some of the Ethiopian culture.
We are currently at the Bole airport in Addis waiting to head home, such a bitter sweet day, its good to be going home but I wish we were able to take Liam (Tami) with us. We should  be able to come back and get him in 6-8 weeks which will be the longest weeks ever!

We have tons of pictures and videos, we will upload them when we get home.

Ethiopia

We arrived in Addis Ababa this morning at 7:00 (11pm EST). So far we have checked into our hotel The Yeka Guest house and are waiting on our agency to send our driver so we can go meet our baby boy! The hotel does not have internet access in the room, we have to use their computer so we may not be able to upload pictures or update the blog as often as we had hopes.

Almost time

It is hard to believe in one week we will be packing for our trip to meet our baby boy! We are beyond excited, I cannot wait. All of our paperwork is in order and ready to go, we just need to make copies of everything which we will do tomorrow. We have a very long trip, we are leaving from Bristol, TN on Sat. Dec. 10th at 2:30 but we don't arrive in Addis Ababa Ethiopia until Monday at 7:30am which is 11:30pm Sunday here in. We have an 11 hour layover in London which will hopefully give us some time to sightsee! We will leave Ethiopia at 1am Friday and get home at 11:30pm Friday. *8hour time difference* The weather is going to be great! In the 70's all week!

Once we arrive in Ethiopia our hotel The Yeka Guest House will pick us up and take us back to the hotel then Hope Adoption Agency Ethiopia will send a driver to pick us up from there, then we go to the agency and there we will get to meet Tamirat (Liam), we will also be able to finish the forms that we will need for the embassy appointment (the 2nd trip). We should get to visit the orphanage and find out more information about Liam during this visit. We are planning on taking half of the donations for the orphanage with us on this trip and the rest on the next visit since the agency thinks this will be easier then trying to ship everything.

We wont get to bring him home on this trip, this is just the court date which is on the 14th. We have to make a second trip in 6-8weeks to pick him up, and bring him home. The 19 hours of flying time should be great with our new toddler :)

The hotel has internet access so we will try to post pictures and keep everyone updated while we are gone. Please continue to keep us in your prayers! God has blessed us so much through this process, we are so ready to bring home our son!