First of all, I don’t know when to capitalize letters in a title and when to leave it lower case. I usually go by instinct, but this title just didn’t feel right.
Secondly, I love this fundraiser that a fellow adoptive parent is doing! Her husband is in the military and he is SEWING… and he is sewing things that I WANT! Check them out here and here! (My favorite thing are the personalized “quiet bags” for church)
Finally, I thought you might enjoy seeing our family photo pages, the ones we made for our dossier. I think they’re kind of fun! I used some online program to translate the words so hopefully they are correct. I’ll have to have it reviewed! The purpose of these photos is to introduce our family and home to the authorities to help them feel comfortable with us as a family. We are making a photo album for Seamus too… well, I will be. I bought this album for him.
We’re making photo albums for the girls too. Not the same album, but hopefully equally indestructible. When we leave for 9+ days to see him for the first time and when we go again later this year to get him, they will need something to help them “hold onto” us. A friend also had the great idea of writing letters for them, one letter to be read to them each night. This sounds perfect, since it will add a little routine and predictability to their day in a way that “connects” with us. I think we’ll be skyping with them on their mornings.
But back to the family photo pages for the dossier.
[Edited to remove photo pages for now, because they have his country’s language on them and I’d prefer this blog remain free of specifics. If you are family and you’re curious to look at our family photo pages, they’re kind of fun and I’m happy to share via email!]
You know, I just realized… if I’m going to have some quiet bags made for the kids from that fundraiser, I’m going to have to decide for sure what Seamus’ name is! I keep changing what I call him. And the poor little guy has no idea. Probably will stick with James and then play with the middle name(s). Dad, I was really wanting a little Edward sometime, but we’ll have to wait a few years, because the dude in the vampire love story (The Twilight books and movies) is named Edward and I don’t want his name to be associated with a chick flick!
As a consolation, here is another picture of our little guy:
Good call on the Edward. Though, it would be easy enough to just say its a family name and you’re not following a pre-teen and middle-age-crisis women’s obsession. 🙂
I like the dossier photos. I like that they’re for a dossier. Dossiers are so cool. 🙂 How come you don’t have a photo with Hudson????? Poor Hudson.
Oh yeah! I forgot I have a picture of them with Hudson in it. I’ll have to get that. Thanks! Not sure what to do about little guy’s name. 🙂
cute-cute-cute!!