Oh Baby

I came across this adoption story this morning, its super sweet! http://www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=1615

    Okay so I have thrown out Layla and Juno and added Alabama, Rylee, Chandalier (Chandy), and Sabra. Who would have thought there would be so many names I like. I still have at least 6 to 9 months to decide so hopefully I can. I really want to pick out a name for her and use her Ethiopian name as her middle name. Who knows maybe we will just end up using her Ethiopian name and I am stressing for no reason!!!

    We got our application sent out!!! Now we are waiting for approval… I hate waiting!!! We have signed up for our parenting classes, we are doing those on January 14th and 15th.

We got our application filled out it, we are sending it off first thing Wednesday morning. I don’t know why I was really nervous filling it out. I was so scared to write down the wrong thing, we had to fill out a issues to consider questioner and  up at the top is says “Note there are no wrong or right answers” that scared me.  Come on now, we all know that’s a lie, if I were to write the wrong thing I am sure they would send me back our application with DENIED written across the top in red.  Don’t worry I think we did good, we answered every question honestly and strait from the heart. The only thing wrong was in the space marked race, my dear husband put white. I had to explain to him that white was not a race, good thing I caught that, it would have really made my we don’t see color answer look like a lie!!!

I really think this is a good choice for us, we have both been really happy over the past couple of weeks. We have been doing alot of research on Ethiopia, we are excited to travel there and learn more about our daughters birth country first hand.  

I went over to my parents house tonight after work, I took the dogs over there to play. My dad was in the kitchen and all of the sudden he started laughing. He told us Ernie is the only dog he has ever seen eat a Pickle! My mom looks at him and says are you sure you should be doing that? I was trying to figure out what she was talking about I didn’t think pickles were bad for dogs.  She then said IF YOU EAT PICKLES BEFORE BED YOU WILL HAVE NIGHTMARES!!! I was laughing so hard I was on the floor seriously. She then told us how every time she eats pickles before bed she has nightmares. My mom is going to make a great grandma!!! She knows things I would have never thought of. 

That being said when I got home Mike had cut his finger really bad and it was bleeding like crazy. I don’t do blood so I called my mom to ask her about it, she said to bring him over. I took him over and my parents fixed him up!!! Dad poured bleach on mikes finger while mom poured him a shot for the pain!!! My parents are going to make great grandparents. Seriously my plan is to take the baby over there whenever she gets hurt that’s why we live less than a minute away.

I was so excited today when I got home I checked the mail and we got our packet of info from Children’s Hope International. I can’t wait for Mike to get home so we can fill out the paper work and get it in the mail! I’ve already called him several times to see where he is at. I am sure I am the most irritating person  in the world to him right now every thought in my brain is about adoption. LOL, I even woke him up from a dead sleep last night to ask him if he liked some baby name I found on-line, luckily for me I think he forgot about that!!! I am still super happy with our changes, I am excited but also impatient I am ready to be a mom!!!

I know of a couple who have gone through some rough times since they started their adoption process. They are so close to bringing their baby home from Colombia, I would hate for them to not be able to because they don’t have enough money. They started a dollar web site its http://helpbringourbabyhome.com/ If you have a dollar or more to spare please visit there web site.
Thank you

I don’t deal with change too well, I hate it actually!!! But I can say I am quite excited about this change…. Are you ready for this??? We are switching country’s… Instead of adopting from Vietnam we are adopting from Ethiopia!!! There is more are you ready for this??? We are going to adopt a little girl!!! I know shocking right!!! We are so excited!

I bet you are all wondering why we are switching… Well there is a lot of crazy stuff going on in Vietnam right now regarding adoptions. Because of a couple of unethical agencies they have to make some changes, which I am totally supportive of, I am just scared to be going through a adoption while the changes are being made. Another big reason is I am not happy with our agency, they are not unethical but they aren’t super friendly. Ex: if I have a question and call them they either never return my call or I get a call back a couple days later. If I send a email sometimes it takes up to weeks for a reply. This is my first adoption I really want someone to hold my hand.

So that being said we are super happy with our new agency, its actually a agency we were going to originally use to adopt from Vietnam when we first started looking into adopting 2 years ago. Unfortunately the wait with that agency was almost two years for a referral of a baby boy when we were ready to adopt and after the heartache I had just went through I didn’t want to wait that long. Our plan is to still adopt our son from Vietnam which is the reason we are adopting a little girl. Our original plan was to adopt from Vietnam and then Ethiopia so its just flipped around. Its amazing how sometimes life makes changes for you. For the past month and a half I have felt really distraught about the adoption it just didn’t feel right, so after many tears and prayers this is the choice we have made for our family.

That being said we don’t have any girl names picked out at the moment so any suggestions would be appreciated!!!

Check out this web site www.celebratingadoption.org 

Its pretty cool, its a group of photographers from all over the United States. They take your picture free of charge and give you some of the proofs too, within the first year of your adoption. I can’t wait to use have them take our baby’s pictures when we get home. I think its amazing so many wonderful photographers are part of this.

I love photography, which is funny because mike and I have never had our pictures taken professionally. That is about to change we have a wonderful photographer who is going to take our picture. Check out her web site www.kellilesliephotography.com She is an amazing photographer and a super nice person. I am waiting until March to book our session, I want the weather to warm up first but I want to  do it before it gets to hot!!!