TA! TA! Michael, we're on our way!

We spent last week at the beach, enjoying wonderful cousin time. For some reason, I had decided we were going to get an update on Michael last week--and I thought it would be especially great to get it on my birthday. It never came--and it may never come, at this point--because Friday night, when I casually checked my email after walking back from the boardwalk with John and Louis, I discovered that we had our Travel Approval!

Anyone who followed our journey to Louis knows it took about three years or so, give or take a year, for our TA to arrive. It was an endless wait. This time our agency had estimated it would take three weeks after our Article 5 was issued, but we got ours in ONE WEEK! Someone really wants this little guy home with us.

All of a sudden there are not enough hours in the day to get ourselves ready for this trip (we're thinking we'll leave in a few weeks) and to prepare Louis for his two weeks of fun here at home. But somehow it will all come together and thank goodness Michael's room is basically ready--a post I have been meaning to do after I finish sewing his curtains. Hmm. Maybe that will happen before Christmas. Christmas 2012, that is.

Anyway, we celebrated here last night the best way we know how:

Somehow I have a feeling we'll be ordering in a few times after Michael is home! We can't wait to meet our little boy!