I can't believe I have been so bad about updating our blog...especially since we have the best news ever but in the move we were so busy with remodeling the house and I didn't have computer access, BUT... we got our referral of our beautiful daughter! I'll never forget the day our agency called. It was May 6th about 4:30pm and I was working out in the yard and fortunately I went into the garage to get something (where I had left my cell phone) and as I was getting ready to leave my phone rang. When I saw that the caller ID said it was my agency my heart started racing. I kept trying to tell myself not to get too excited because she was probably just calling to ask me a question about our move. When she said she had good news for us and that she had a referral for us, all I could say was "are you joking with me?" and she said she would never joke about something so important:) I then screamed a little and started jumping up and down. Once I caught my breath she told me a little about this precious baby that God was making part of our family. She was born on February 24, 2008 so she was about 2 and a half months old. She told me she was hitting the submit button on the email to us with her photo and medical information but that she had been having problems with her email and to let her know if it didn't go through. As soon as I hung up the phone I screamed and jumped a little more and called Nic and basically told him that he needed to come home immediately because we had a baby and I wanted to look at her picture for the first time together. He was in shock when I told him that we had a referral because we just weren't expecting it that soon...we hoped but didn't think it would really happen.
I went upstairs and checked my email and I hadn't received it yet so I called our caseworker back and she said she would send it from someone else's email. Well, after about a half an hour Nic was home and we still hadn't gotten the referral and we started to panic because it was after 5pm and the agency was closed so we thought we would have to wait until the next day. But finally, the email popped up and Nic and I prayed together, took a deep breath and opened the email and fell in love. I know I am a little biased as a new mother but I have never seen a more beautiful child in my life:) She was just more beautiful than I ever imagined and my heart was in her tiny hands at that moment. Unfortunately I can't post her picture until we have her home but she has the biggest round brown eyes ever and the cutest nose and mouth and in spite of the huge sweatshirt and pants they have on her you can tell she is tiny.
After looking at her medical history and hearing back from the adoption doctor we were a little concerned with some of her red blood cell counts. The doctor told us she could just be anemic or be malnourished or it could be more serious and to think about that before we accepted the referral. Well, Nic and I prayed about it and individually decided that we felt like this was the child God had made for us and we both decided we wanted to proceed with the referral and I have never been happier. We accepted the referral and asked if there was any way we could have the orphanage give her iron formula. The neatest thing was the dream my mother-in-law had a few months ago. She had written it down the night of her dream and after we got our referral she called me and told me about it. In the dream a baby was born and God told her that this baby would be part of our family. She looked at the baby and she had big, round brown eyes and clear, pretty skin (which looks just like Alexa:) and she looked at the date of the dream and it was on February 24th!...wow!
On Monday, June 16th I couldn't believe it when Nic told me we got an email from our agency with updated pictures of our baby! I ran to the computer and we opened it together and we were very excited to see that they had sent us four new pictures of her. She looks very healthy and happy and is cuter than ever. She even has a small smile in one of the pictures and I can see more personality in them. The email said that she was doing well on her new formula and that her caregivers say she is active and happy. It's just so hard because I want to hold her in my arms and have her now. It's hard to know that when we get her she will have changed since her pictures and I don't want to miss a minute of her life. We are praying that we will get to travel sooner than the 5-6 months that we were told. It's already been a month and a half and I am praying we will get to travel in September (or sooner of course)
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