Life and Death

We leave for CO in two days. My Grandma Beth is in the hospital- she’s had two heart attacks in the last 3 days. Nicole, a good and long-time friend of mine had her twin boys this morning – Teagan and Korbin – a month early. Life and death. I wonder when my little girl will be or was born. I hope she isn’t born yet, but I’m sure she’s at least in the womb. She exists and is alive!

We are currently calling her Dot. We’re trying to come up with an acronym for her : Darling Our Treasure, or Daughter Our Trust… Others we’ve come up with are: Liv (Love in Vietnam) and Dov (Darling of Vietnam)…. Koen can say dot (sounds more like dote or dut), but he said something along those lines when we asked him what to call her.

Her real name probably needs to start with a K – so she feels a part of the family (Keith, Kelly, Koen…..) We will see though.

We sent in more of our dos paperwork today – the VN application, the VN post-placement commitment, and the financial statement, all of which needed to be notarized.

Our social worker, Mike, also sent us a draft of the home study. Looks good, just a few grammar or misspelled names. We will meet with him the Monday after we get back, and keep this moving forward.

We celebrated my Grammi's 91st birthday a few days ago (not the one in the hospital). Here's some pics from the party: