What's in a name?

Kobe Loudince

The name Kobe Loudince is highly sensitive, promotes cooperation and diplomacy, and makes everyone feel safe and appreciated. Flexible and passionate, Kobe Loudince promotes adaptability and survival against all odds. The name indicates understanding, compassion, and intimacy, and tends to draw support with tact and subtle persuasion rather than force and confrontation. Having an intuitive ability to avoid land mines and pitfalls, and a strong sense of balance, this name promotes a careful and competent decision-making process.

To some people, the name Kobe Loudince feels weak and incompetent. As a result, it is often underestimated.

Kobe Loudince's most positive characteristics: Cooperation, tact, flexibility, tolerance, insight into the human psyche.
Kobe Loudince's most negative characteristics: Fear. Lacks confidence, lacks aggressiveness when needed.

• Kobe Loudince's Vowel Vibration number is 3.
This number increases or decreases the impact of the Dominant Impression.
• Kobe Loudince's Base Vibration number is 8.
This number represents the overall tone, or rhythm, of the name. it too has a significant impact on the Dominant Impression.

How does it feel to know you're about to meet your baby?

I've waited my whole life to be a mom - no really - just ask my mom! Being matched with our baby boy was pretty cool and planning a trip to meet him has been interesting. We are only a short time away from being in Haiti and meeting him. I'm not sure what it feels like for parents in the delivery room when their baby is born but I'm pretty sure this is completely different. We have seen his sweet face, his smile, his eyes - we know so much about him. I have gone through feeling anxious to get the trip booked, I've been excited to go to Haiti, I've been super excited to meet him to the point where I just don't think I can focus on anything but my daydreams of what it will be like.

As of yesterday I'm so nervous, it's not even funny, like very first rotary basketball game when I was in 3rd grade nervous - thinking about it makes my stomach a ball of nerves. It does feel real now - we have a son and we are about to meet him for the very first time, I can't wait, but I'm so nervous!!!

I have never, in all my life, been so excited!

Donations or strange yard sale?

Can you spot your donations??? Thank you everyone for all your donations - this is a lot of stuff. More specifically it is:

16 Packages of Baby Wipes

52 Cans of Formula

4 Bottles of Children's Ibuprofin

3 Bottles of Children's Tylenol

1 Bottle of Infants Tylenol

6 Bottles of Pediasure

4 Bottles of Children's Cold Medicine

1 Bottle of Poly Vi Sol Infant Vitamins

1 Bottles of Detangler

2 Bottles Baby Cologne

900 Cotton Balls

12 Tennis Balls

48 Packages of Top Ramen (not in picture)

3 Ink Cartridges

And there's more not in the picture!! We also have more Pediasure on it's way to us!!

Thanks

Thanks for all your sweet comments on my rant below, I needed it. Adoption is so awesome but so heartbreaking at the same time - and I really can't wait to get Kobe home so we can do it all over again.

I have been really thinking the past few days about how I show someone I will be a good mom. Someone who knows nothing about me or my family.

Our doctor's letter was done correctly and we have our other documentation - I had to write a cover letter to go with those documents telling why we think Loudince is a good match for us and supporting the strength of our marriage. I think that was the most important letter I have ever written. I put a lot of thought into it and lucky for me I'm good with words. When I started typing the letter it took minutes (and not because I'm a turbo typer Nate) because I just put my every honest thought into words and I think it shows an accurate picture of just how much we not only want Kobe but how much he means to us already.

And you just never know maybe we'll hear we are out of IBESR today!! Wouldn't that be cool?

Will it ever end??????

Documents shmockuments I am so sick of this paper chase I could scream or cry whatever happens first.

We now have to get proof of "cohabitation" preferably ten years worth - yes for those of you who know me that would mean Nate and I moved in together when I was 16 - you cradle robber Nate. And no we did not live together then - so I happened to find a rental agreement from 2002 - thank you Nate for missing that on one of your "throw everything in sight away" whirlwinds.

AND

We have to provide a doctors letter - notarized. Since it took nearly 2 months to get the first one I'm proud to say that I called the doctors office last Friday and the NOTARIZED letter is being mailed to me today. I won't get my hopes up until I see it was done correctly. The first letter basically said that we had no communicable diseases and this letter says who knows what but it's apparently extremely important.

Both of these documents have to be notarized, authenticated, and translated which (parden my sarcasm) could take another 5 months (I honestly have no idea how long this could take)

I have officially lost hope that our baby will be home before he turns 2. It may have been unrealistic to hope for his homecoming before we ring in 2009 but I was hopeful, and now I'm not.

I always like to look at the bright side so on the bright side the counter on the top says we get to leave for Haiti in 17 days - that is really really good news.