WOO HOOO!!!!!!!!!!

We are out of the PGN!!! YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!! We are so very thankful for this development as things are really slowing down and looking to get slower. This is a huge blessing. It means that we are simply awaiting our Embassy appointment. Some folks even choose to go down at this point to start caring for their child and wait for their appointment time there. We really are not in a position to do that so we are awaiting our pink slip. Then we will have definite date. Embassy appointments are scheduled very early in the morning, before 8:00. We are supposed to fly in early enough the day before so Alexander can be brought to the hotel. He goes to the Embassy appointment as well. Then we have another appointment the next day. After that we will be free to leave. He will be adopted with the name Alexander Laynez McCormick Watkins. Eddy really loves that one! As if me keeping my name is not annoying enough! :) In the Latin world, this is the naming custom. . We will change it to Alexander Lorenzana McCormick when we do a name change here. We plan on calling him "Xander" if he likes it.

I feel so blessed that Alexander will be able to get to know us before getting his surgery. Such a wondeful thing!

Tonight we went out to celebrate. We have yet to find a Guatemalan restuarant in San Antonio, so we went for Mexican food. No, it is not the same! :)

Thanks to our friends, family, church family and Community of Hope for the continued prayers and support. This has been a challenge, like most good things in our lives so far. Thanks for the interest, compassion and love.

SOOON!!!!!!!!!!!