It was almost exactly one year ago that we followed through on our decision to adopt and submitted our initial application to Adoption Assistance here in KY. A few months later we narrowed down our choice of agency and started our paperwork.
Its seems funny to see what terrible bloggers we are. Our last post was about my nervousness when mailing out our dossier in October. Now I'm posting with great joy that we have accepted a referral of a precious baby boy.
We received a phone call yesterday from our agency while Adam was at work. He ran out of the office to come home so we could hear the info together. He ran right out the door like the place was on fire and straight to the parking garage, where he realized..........he hadn't parked in the parking garage. So he ran to the front lot of his office building....then realized he hadn't parked there either! So he finally made his way to the back lot and came home with his phone burning a hole in his pocket. I love it when he is so excited about something that he can't think. (He did something equally as silly when we found out our first child was a girl) We called our agency, so excited we couldn't stand it and............our case manager was ON THE OTHER LINE!!! We waited as patiently as possible for 45 minutes and then the phone rang again.
After reviewing the file of our sweet little fella and seeing his picture we accepted the referral almost right away. We then celebrated with the girls by going for ice cream and a tiny shopping trip to Target to get a few "blue" things :)
We can't wait to share photos with the whole world, but we must wait until after we go to court in Ethiopia to post his picture online. Let me tell you though, he has big brown eyes just like the girls and big squishy cheeks like Jillian that I just can't wait to kiss. His given name means "Glory be to God for the birth of this child." and he shares a birthday with Adam's dad. Perfect. Just perfect.
Now we wait to see if we can be submitted to court before the Ethiopian courts close for their rainy season. Roads wash out and make travel very difficult, so the courts in Addis Ababa close for about 8 weeks. If we do not make it before the closure on August 6th, we will have to wait to October to travel for court and then another several weeks to go back and get our little boy. Sooooo all my prayer warrior friends, please please pray that we will be able to go meet him next month and bring him home maybe in September. Either way, we have faith that the timing will be just right!
My big girl, C, drew this picture as soon as she saw her baby brothers picture. She says she can't wait to play with him and hug him. Me either, sweet girl, me either!
Its seems funny to see what terrible bloggers we are. Our last post was about my nervousness when mailing out our dossier in October. Now I'm posting with great joy that we have accepted a referral of a precious baby boy.
We received a phone call yesterday from our agency while Adam was at work. He ran out of the office to come home so we could hear the info together. He ran right out the door like the place was on fire and straight to the parking garage, where he realized..........he hadn't parked in the parking garage. So he ran to the front lot of his office building....then realized he hadn't parked there either! So he finally made his way to the back lot and came home with his phone burning a hole in his pocket. I love it when he is so excited about something that he can't think. (He did something equally as silly when we found out our first child was a girl) We called our agency, so excited we couldn't stand it and............our case manager was ON THE OTHER LINE!!! We waited as patiently as possible for 45 minutes and then the phone rang again.
After reviewing the file of our sweet little fella and seeing his picture we accepted the referral almost right away. We then celebrated with the girls by going for ice cream and a tiny shopping trip to Target to get a few "blue" things :)
We can't wait to share photos with the whole world, but we must wait until after we go to court in Ethiopia to post his picture online. Let me tell you though, he has big brown eyes just like the girls and big squishy cheeks like Jillian that I just can't wait to kiss. His given name means "Glory be to God for the birth of this child." and he shares a birthday with Adam's dad. Perfect. Just perfect.
Now we wait to see if we can be submitted to court before the Ethiopian courts close for their rainy season. Roads wash out and make travel very difficult, so the courts in Addis Ababa close for about 8 weeks. If we do not make it before the closure on August 6th, we will have to wait to October to travel for court and then another several weeks to go back and get our little boy. Sooooo all my prayer warrior friends, please please pray that we will be able to go meet him next month and bring him home maybe in September. Either way, we have faith that the timing will be just right!
My big girl, C, drew this picture as soon as she saw her baby brothers picture. She says she can't wait to play with him and hug him. Me either, sweet girl, me either!
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| Three little Higgie girls, Mommy and Daddy holding Baby Boy! |
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