Update on our son and a sneak peak!!!

Thank you so much for all of the congratulations!! We are so in love!

so whats been going on you might ask?
its been a whirlwind but we are trying to soak in every second.

so the call came on monday night. it was amazing. i love Gods timing because i was absolutely positively not at all (not even a tiny bit) expecting to get the call. it was crazy wonderful!! we were watching the bachelorette (yes Karl was too) and when my phone started ringing Karl picked it up and looked at then just handed it to me...so im thinking its probably my mom....MAAAYYBE my sister but when i looked down and saw the 517 area code, I KNEW it was michigan calling!! i could hardly breathe and my heart was racing (kind of like when the jail called me!) (from the previous post) but this time i knew it was real!! so i start saying, oh my gosh oh my gosh its michigan, this is happening, its happening!!!! so karl is like, "answer it baby" but  i couldnt, i was too nervous and still could hardly breathe. so karl tried but it was too late. so we waited for a minute to see if a voicemail would pop and then karl called back and put it on speaker.
our caseworker N, asked if she could tell us about a baby boy!?! we sat there holding each other and crying our eyes out! it wasnt until almost the end of the conversation when i realized that maybe i should be taking notes, cause i was probably way to excited and emotional to remember everything!

she told us that when his birthmother saw our profile she said that the only way she could make a plan for him was if WE were going to be his parents! we cried even more.

God had heard our prayers. Our prayers for her and our prayers for our future child!! All of the details just made it so very obvious that Gods hands are ALL over this!

Right at the same month that our babys birthmother had a bad experience with one agency and was finding her way to our agency...WE found out that there was a need for families to adopt african american infants in the U.S. and so we switched from Ethiopia to domestic and switched agencies as well. Oh how God is good!!

So anyway, fastforward to thursday! we got to have a phone call with our babys amazing first mother. i wont share much of that because its a pretty personal thing...but i will say that it was humbling and so special and something that we will never forget!! we even got to hear our baby cry! it was the sweetest sound!
that same day our baby boy went into host care. host care with our agency consists of a family that cares for the babies before the parental rights are terminated. our baby is lucky to have an amazing christian couple who has been doing this for 17 years with our agency!!! and i was able to talk with his host mother P several times in the last 2 days.

she emailed us pictures of him last night and he is GORGEOUS!!! we are even more in love!! we have been praying for him for the last 2 years...our first child!! and although we did not know who he was, God did!!!

he had a dr appt today and he is 21 inches (he was measured wrong the first time) and he is actually 8 pounds 7 oz!!!! i can not wait to get my arms wrapped around him and just snuggle him closely, and breathe in his sweet smell...and kiss on his cheeks! ohh, he is a handsome little boy :)

so whats next!? monday we have a conference call with our caseworker to go over all of the details of the rest of the process and then hopefully a court date will be scheduled promptly and hopefully we will be traveling this coming week to meet our baby boy and bringing him home soon! i will update monday after we know more...
while we are very aware that this adoption is not finalized, that his mother has not yet even terminated her rights before the courts...we feel like this is our son. and we are trusting that it is God who got us this far and it will be God who gets us thru the heartache if we lost him. but we will not let that fear keep us from falling head over heals in love with our son!!!

continue praying for us!!