On the verge of change, once again

Well friends and family, the time has come.  In less than a week, we board a plane to head back to China to pick up Elsie.  The next four weeks are going to be crazy busy as we make preparations this week, pick her up next week, travel to get her American visa the week after that and then return home with our new little girl as a family of four.  We covet your prayers and will try to keep you updated every step of the way.  Thank you for joining us on this journey to bringing both our girls home.

This week please keep praying for Emma’s and Erika’s Mom’s visas.  We have been told they’ll be back in our hands on Wednesday.  We have also begun our yearlong internship program and so we were gone all weekend and have meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday.  And of course there’s the packing and getting ready to leave early Friday morning.  So yeah, we’re a bit overwhelmed.

Emma is thriving.  She’s super talkative (which can drive Mark nuts at times).  When she doesn’t have enough vocabulary to actually tell the story, she mumbles gibberish with facial expressions and hand motions and voice intonations.  It’s just adorable.  She asks questions incessantly.  She loves playing with other children and has had no problem with the childcare that we’ve put her in (PTL!).  She really is doing far better than we ever imagined.  Now, what will this next child bring???