Friday, March 4, 2011

oh happy day!!

We got our referral!!! What an awesome time it was to look at our new baby's face...and i mean baby!! We were approved for a 0-12 month baby, but assumed he would be in the older part of those 12 months, but he is 6 weeks old! and really cute, i might add!!

We had gotten word from our agency that it was probably coming this week, so i was checking my email non-stop all week. And it was perfect timing. we got the emails about 5:45, while david was home! we put a movie on for the girls to watch so we could concentrate on enjoying that moment and looking at our baby, and then we videoed telling and showing the girls. it was precious, they were so excited and i can't wait to show this little guy how much his sisters love him already. then the girls called our parents and the rest of the night was full of visitors and phone calls. it was wonderful!

We will get the medical report today and we are praying that everything is okay with that. as long as we feel good about it (which we think we will), we will "accept" him and apply for a court date in Ethiopia. and then we wait again....

david and i both have a picture of our cute baby and will carry it everywhere to show all of you, and he is cute!!! we are so blessed to welcome the newest member of our family.....

4 comments:

Shane, Natalie, Madelyn & Murphy said...

Congratulations! We are absolutely thrilled for you guys! We can't wait to meet baby Whitfield! God is SO amazing! (Do we have a name yet?)

The Sandersons said...

SO EXCITED FOR YOU!!!! O my! Congrats!!! I can't wait to see him! Wow!!! I will be happy to give him some lovin' for you when we are there next month!!!

Whooo Hoo!!!

The Nolls said...

hi there!
I'm Sara-Beth Noll and we're another family with CCI. We just got our referral on Thursday too, (two baby boys), and I knew there were two other families getting them that day. How exciting! Maybe we will be traveling at the same time for one or both of the trips. Congratulations!

Jolene Shrock said...

Congratulations!! What an exciting time! I pray things move swiftly for you all!!