We searched the world for you

Dear Evan Moon,

Today we hop onto a flight around the world and I am a bundle of nerves, much like a 42-week pregnant momma would be, ready to be a family together but also the future is so full of uncertainties! Your daddy and I have been waiting a very long time to meet you and bring you home, in fact more than twice as long as you have been alive! No pressure or anything but we really hope you don't completely freak out right away.

Over the years we will make you promises and pray we are able to keep them. The first promise was to pray for you and the second to do everything we can to be the parents you deserve. We named you Evan, because it means "God is Gracious" we feel so blessed to call you ours, if anyone is lucky in this situation is it your parents! You are a true miracle in our family. We also promise to incorporate your beautiful culture and celebrate your heritage in our family. We will honor your birth parents and Mrs. Choi, they will always be a part of the man you will become.

Know that those tears you see on my face are a mix of happy excited tears that you are actually real and in my arms and bittersweet tears watching you grieve and knowing the grief Mrs. Choi is now feeling. Know that you may kick and scream the entire 20-hour flight but we still love and want you.  The 20-hour flight will seem like an eternity during the actual flight but daddy and I have been waiting for this flight for almost 5 whole years! So relatively speaking 20 hours is nothing. (that is NOT a challenge!) 

We missed so many firsts in your life, but now we will get to experience a different type of firsts. We are looking forward to your first English words (hopefully not the word "No!"), your first friends (both people and puppy), trip to the pool, play with your cousins, a bike ride, oh and sleeping in your own bed just to mention a few.

We anticipate many challenges we will face as a family and at this point we are a bit nearsighted looking towards just the next few months!  

-- We know you have probably been spoiled rotten and we will need to figure out how to transition and balance your needs and wants. 

-- We know you are confused why your world just got turned upside down and we do not share the same language to communicate well with each other. We pray that with our actions we will communicate our love and dedication to you.

-- We know that you probably have never seen a dog in person and you are about to share a family with two energetic but loving big lap dogs. If you are going to use the word "No!" aim towards Mocha! You already have an ally in Tyson, he has already started chewing off the safety locks we installed on the cabinets! (specifically the cabinet with the peanut butter!) You will learn to be their pack leader!  

-- We know there are about a thousand friends and family that want nothing more to love on you at first sight and maybe you will be a social butterfly but we want to be the people that love on you and meet your needs, not because we are selfish but because we want to teach you who you can trust and we aren't going anywhere, others will have to wait.

-- We know sleep will be a challenge but we promise to be right next to you until your ready to crawl into your big boy bed. We will sleep on the floor with your just like you have for 2 years with Mrs. Choi and when you cry out for her we will comfort you.

-- We know we will have a million other challenges but first and foremost we are relying on the power of prayer and God's grace to rise above! We pray we all will find peace in His reassurance.

We have searched the world for you,

Momma and Daddy