Updates and Care Package, Oh My!

So things have been moving pretty quickly around the Bernard-Bigsby house lately! We are still in shock over our very unexpected referral and are falling more and more in love with our son everyday! We can't wait to meet him and bring him home :) This week we were able to send a care package to WACAP's transitional house where Truman is staying (oh yeah, did we mention that we are naming him Truman?) The only catch was that we could only send what would fit into one gallon-size ziploc bag. And honestly you don't think about how small a gallon-size bag is until you are trying to send all you can to your son who is currently living across the world! We ended up settling on 2 onesies, a blanket, a rattle, and a crinkly picture book containing pictures of us and our house.


Then we had to stuff it into our bag (no easy feat, we might add!) Here's the final product of our efforts


We sent it to WACAP and they'll mail it over to Ethiopia for us. Hopefully it will help Truman get the slightest sense of his soon to be parents!

In other related news, we got an unexpected update concerning Truman's growth - he has gained 1/2 a pound in the last 2 weeks. Yay! This made us very happy to know that our little boy is growing big and strong! It also made us a little sad to know he is growing up without us, but we know we will be there with him soon. We're still waiting on additional pictures of him (we still only have the one referral photo, though it is the best picture we have ever seen of anyone ever!). We're just trying to hang in and anxiously awaiting news of our travel dates. Hopefully, pretty soon we'll have more information to update you with!