October...

The fall is always festive and fun-it's nice to reflect upon sweet moments as we wait for spring to arrive. During october we received our i800A from immigration...I have not mastered patience, more often it seems it is mastering me...but this paperwork was the last piece to our dossier!
And we submitted our Dossier on the 17th. It was such a relief to have months of paper chasing delivered into safe hands at our agency. We had to do some happy dancing!

Derek took our boy to Father/Son retreat in Van. They call it Warrior Weekend. I'm so thankful he took the time with Gunnar who so craves one to one guy time since he is surrounded by 3 girls all of the time. He has grown up so much-and he had a great time. He is still talking about all the fun he had, and can't wait to go back. I'd call that a success. I pray for their bond. I pray that as often as Gunnar makes Derek crazy-he sees the Big picture. These moments are fleeting and Gunnar just loves to be a boy. And when we feel like stamping him out-that we'd remember we have to reel all that energy to benefit him. He will be a great man one day, just like his Dad.