Miss V is 8 months! And no more EPs...

Happy 8 months my sweet girl! What are you wearing today? What size do you wear? What time did you wake up? Did you have a nap? Maybe 2? What did you eat? Did you have a bath? Did you like it? Are you crawling? Are you pulling up? Did you laugh today? Did you give anyone a kiss? Did you get a hug today? I know you did! How long is your hair? How much do you weigh? Are you ticklish? I miss you...
Well, we got some bad news today...Eastern has submitted Emigration Permissions through February. I just felt like we would travel around that time, but now it will be longer. They will start issuing EPs again in February, but we are not at the top of the list. So now it looks like maybe March or April? This is very sad. *sigh*
Tonight Clay and I are going to a Kiwanis Installation Dinner. Clay is being installed as president elect. So, we are dressed up and grandma and papa are watching the kids and - uh oh! we are late! Gotta go!

Education Requirements

We are working through the education requirements. We have had a slow start on that. Amanda and I are both reading a book and we have completed one online class.
-CLAY

Someone else is holding my child . . .

I also find it hard to blog about this. I feel very certain that I have three children now. However, I do not get to hold/hear/hug/kiss/see one of them. It's pretty much emotionally crippling, so I avoid this blog. I did attempt to post for her 7 month milestone, but I see that it is not here. We're almost to the next 21st by this time. On Tuesday, Violet will be 8 months old. I wonder what she smells like. I also wonder what her little hands and toes look like.
-CLAY

7 months old and hard to write it...

My baby girl is 7 months old!!
So, apparently Clay and I had a breakdown of communication. I thought he had written a post about Violet turning 7 months and so I did not! I think about my precious daughter on the 21st of every month. I have also ignored my blog because it is just too painful sometimes. My way of coping during this agonizing waiting process has been to simply not think about it. Posting on my blog is emotional for me and it takes me a long time because I just cry and cry like a big baby and I typically have a 4 year old hanging on me every second of the day and there just isn't much time. But good ol' grandma wanted the little monkey to sleep over this weekend so I have time to write! Yay!
I have not seen a picture nor an update on Violet since June, and I am not even sure how old she was in those pictures/video. SO I wrote to my caseworker and she told me that a staff member was going to Korea in NOVEMBER! So I should be getting pictures, a video, and an update then! And that should also mean that I will be able to send another care package! I am so excited! I wish it was sooner! I have been keeping up with as many other Korean adoptive families in my agency that I know of and so far I have been noticing a pattern I am quite anxious and excited about! I don't want to get my hopes up, but speculation has lead me to believe that 3-4 families have been traveling EVERY month this year! And we are now #10 down the list (on the UNofficial waiting list on the forum) which could possibly mean we would be traveling in NOVEMBER! But I don't want to get my hopes up...really...Our 8-12 month wait would put us between February-June 2011. But if we travel in 3 months, I have soooo much to do! I have not gotten any of my education requirements completed! We have to complete a CPR class and lots of online classes and read lots of books! Oh boy, I am getting nervous!

In other news, my other baby girl had a fun Saturday the 4th! First, in the morning she was in our town's parade with her square dancing group!

Then later, her group danced at the annual Clothesline fair! And boy was she and her little group just the cutest EVER!
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Here are my 2 oldest in the car waiting to go to the parade! Aren't they cute?!