Holiday Care Package

Now that James is 1 he only goes into the Holt office every other month for his check-ups. So, this MaMa has to plan ahead.  If my timing is right James should be heading to Holt in about 2 weeks and then he wont be back until January. After collecting everything I wanted to send over the last few weeks I packaged it all up last week and mailed it off.

James loves him some Puffs....  In every single photo I have gotten he is clinging to them. How could we not send lots of puffs. I am happy to report that I have been using my coupons and buying lots of puffs the past month. So, when I was all done packing up his care packages I was able to fit two more from the small stockpile I made in the pantry- woo hoo!!!

Next is a gift from James Godparents, Kim and Steve.  How cute is James going to look in his new Christmas Jammies?  I am really hoping for a picture of him wearing them one day - so that I can show them just how cute the jammies they picked for him were while he wore them half way around the world.   Thanks Kim, Steve, and Sophia for thinking of James during this very long wait.

Next we picked this outfit with the cutest wagging tail in the back. I put several of these one piece outfits in for several reasons. 1 - I really have no idea what size my baby is. He looks so big in some of his photos and so small in others. According to his medical reports each month he is small - just at the 25th percentile for heigh and weight. When I look the same height and weight stats up on an American chart he is pretty much average fitting right in a little under the 50th percentile. 2- The cold weather is coming and it is cold in Seoul during the winter. I noticed in his pictures from last winter he often had thermal looking pants on under his clothes. Well, thinking ahead, I figure his foster Omma (mama in Korean) can fit those warm thermal under these baggy rompers. 3- I just cant resist how cute they are... can you?!?! 

I also can never ever resist a cute hat. I am hoping that sometime in the future I get an email from Holt with that little symbol that I love to see that reads "download". You know the one where the 18 seconds that it takes seems like a lifetime.  The emails where your heart beats fast and you don't know if you should laugh or cry. Then all of a sudden your baby is there - on the screen - and for a split second it feels like they are in the same room with you - like for real. Then reality sinks in and your staring at your computer monitor and suddenly your baby seems further away then before. Yeah, I am hoping for one of THOSE pictures. And while I am wishing, maybe his Omma could put this moose hat on for his MaMa, just like she did when she got that cute little beaver hat. 

Another hat and mittens for the cold winter.

Some overalls, since little boys look so cute in overalls.

A book - this is the same book Zoey loved when she was one. We have a copy here too so next year we can read it together as we celebrate our first Christmas together.

Some gifts for James' foster family. A little bag for his foster sister. Hats for his foster brother and father. A little necklace for his college aged foster sister.

 And for his Omma, the woman who has cared for him on the other side of the world while we wait for him here, a necklace. I noticed that she always wears a cross in her pictures - so as a symbol of her faith I chose a cross. I then chose James' birthstone and  a heart. I wanted to pick charms that would be universally symbolic- charms that wouldn't be lost in translation. She will always have a place in my heart. I will forever be thankful to the person who took care of my sweet boy day in and day out until I could take care of him.

Finally it was all ready to go..... I couldn't take pictures EVERYTHING! :) LOL

But I did get all of that...

....in these 2 boxes.

They should arrive in Korea any day.

And maybe - just maybe- I will get a picture of my sweet boy with his goodies.

Maybe he will be holding his Puffs again.... or maybe he will have his moose hat on.

Guess we have to wait (isn't that 95% of this adoption process) and see.