{"id":1222,"date":"2010-09-15T23:47:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T03:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2010-09-15T23:47:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T03:47:20","slug":"the-closer-we-get-the-harder-it-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1222","title":{"rendered":"The closer we get, the harder it gets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we inch closer to November, our guesstimate on travel, I find myself becoming more and more anxious to go get our boy.  I think of how much time he&#8217;s already spent in that orphanage, not with his family.  I think more about the day we&#8217;ll finally meet.  <\/p>\n<p>So, yea, I&#8217;m getting tired of waiting :)  But, we know that God&#8217;s timing is best and rest in that &#8211; all the while, doing what we can to help pass the time.  <\/p>\n<p>A little shopping always helps.  I&#8217;ve been picking up travel items here and there lately, crossing them off my packing list.  Lainey has been confused more than once&#8230;is that toothbrush for me?  No, honey, it&#8217;s for Yu Hai.  <\/p>\n<p>Dylan has a surprise coming his way, too.  I ordered a small care package, with a stuffed puppy dog.  Just to let remind him that someone out there loves him.  And, we are coming.  <\/p>\n<p>Our agency requested an update on Dylan back in August &#8211; we were hoping for updated measurements and a new picture.  We received the measurements alone&#8230;I can&#8217;t really complain, given how many pictures of him we&#8217;ve been blessed with.  As of 9\/6\/10 he weighs 25lbs and is 2&#8242; 8&#8243; tall.  That puts him at < 3 percentile for both.  He's a little guy at 3 yrs 2 months.  To compare, Lainey weighed 25lbs at 20 months.  \n\nSome news on our timeline...after some unwelcome drama involving our social worker, we finally heard today that our I-800 file was approved by the NBC (immigration).  We have a few more hurdles to jump through until that magical TA (Travel Approval) arrives.  But, progress is being made.  Which means we're getting closer.  Which means the waiting gets harder.  \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we inch closer to November, our guesstimate on travel, I find myself becoming more and more anxious to go get our boy. I think of how much time he&#8217;s already spent in that orphanage, not with his family. I think more about the day we&#8217;ll finally meet. So, yea, I&#8217;m getting tired of waiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yu-hai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}