It is with great joy that we announce our acceptance of a referral of a little girl!
After 10 months and 4 days of waiting we received the loooooooooooooooong awaited phone call from AAI on Thursday afternoon at around 3:30. I was coming out of my phenergan induced sleep when my phone rang. To say that I was shocked was an understatement!
We are not able to post photos or tell of her particular situation under after she is legally ours, but just trust me when I say that her little face melts my heart! We have been told that she is healthy and happy and brings a "good disposition" to whoever she's around.
When we originally turned in our home study, our requested age was 18mo-4yrs. We had our home study changed for birth-4yrs, after being told that toddler girls didn't become available very often. Generally toddler girls are part of a sibling group, and those sibling groups are placed together.
So for the last 10 months we had been expecting to receive a referral for an infant girl. Imagine our surprise when we found out that our little girlie is thought to be 2 1/2!
Not quite what we were expecting, but what we had originally desired. Her age fits perfectly with the spacing of all of our girls...only God takes care of those little details!
JK, LB, and AA are very excited and think that she's "so cute".
So what's next?!? A few more papers to sign...
Then we will be filed in court. Court has been closed in Ethiopia for about the past month. They are getting ready to reopen in the next couple of weeks. We are hoping for a court date sometime in October. That would be wonderful! But as we have learned throughout this process, things don't always happen in the time frame that we desire.
So for now, we sit and wait (again) to find out the next step that will bring our daughter home!
We continue to covet your prayers as we prepare to help this little girl adjust to one more change in her young life.
Pray also for our girls that they will be ready emotionally when we bring our little EG home!
Stay tuned for the next update!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
IT'S A GIRL!!!!
Posted by About Us at 7:57 PM
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3 comments:
CONGRATS!!!!! How exciting!!!! I cannot believe that the day finally came...can't wait till you are able to post pics of her sweet little face for us all to see! I am sure she will melt all of our hearts too.
Sir and I are so excited since we heard the news last week....this little gem has no idea how much she is already loved! (TEARS FLOWING) How God has placed everything into motion from her birth, placement on this orphanage, your family paperwork, your children, the exact parents she was to have...right down to her aunts/uncles and grandparents! wow!!!! I am speechless! Praise You God!
Thanks for leaving your link to your blog on yahoo.It will be interesting to get to follow your stry now, how awesome!Did I tell you in my email that we have three girls?Our first 3 where girls and now we have 2 boys, good times!
Jenny L.
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