Here We Come Baby Girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE HAVE OUR TRAVEL DATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last Wednesday was the seven week mark of when we received baby girl's referral. I was having a very hard evening because our agency had sent out an email reminding all the families waiting for travel dates that, although our agency has not had families wait more than 8 weeks from referral to getting travel dates, it can take up to 4 months. They also said that with the holidays coming up, they won't be sending families to Vietnam in December. So, if we didn't have travel dates by December 1st we wouldn't be going to Vietnam until the New Year. I had received the email right before going to work and was struggling to keep it together. When I got to work the first three people I saw asked me if I had heard any good news. I am so thankful that all the people I work with are so excited for us, but that night I was on the verge of a breakdown and just had to say to people "it's been a hard day and I can't really talk about it tonight". I made it through the night, went home in the morning and immediately checked my email (like I had been about 100 times a day for the past 7 weeks), but there was no news. I went to bed around 9am and woke up to my cell phone ringing...it was one of those times when I was in such a deep sleep that the ring went into my dream and I woke up confused and groggy. I answered to Dan saying "we got it, we got our travel dates...we need to be in Vietnam November 3rd!!" It was 10am...and there was no way I was going to be able to sleep after that! I think I finally gave up around 1:30 and just got up. That night at work I was a new person...floating on cloud nine...and I haven't come down yet! The last few days have been a whirlwind trying to book flights and hotel. We will be leaving Oct 30th, getting into Hanoi on the 1st and if all goes as planned we should be home Nov 23rd. Poor Aiden is going to miss trick-or-treating. He has been telling people whenever they ask what he is going to be for Halloween "I might be in Vietnam for Halloween". So when we told him we had gotten the call to go to baby sister, he was so excited that we would be here for Halloween. We went and bought him his costume the next day. We thought we wouldn't be leaving until the 1st or 2nd, but flights are so booked up that weekend that we needed to make our flight for the 30th. So then we had to tell him that he won't be home for Halloween...he was so sad! We're trying to find some really fun things for us to do the weekend before so he can wear his costume a few times and get a good stash of candy!
The next couple of weeks are going to be so busy, I know that they're going to fly by...but I'm so ready to go, go, go now! I cannot even put into words our excitement. We're so ready to start this part of the journey...to have baby girl home!