A picture if worth 1000 words

Adoption is a unique way to have a baby.  Your pregnancy is paperwork and your labor pain is fundraising but I am pretty sure that your joy is just as overwhelming when you see your sweet baby for the first time.
    With Jeremiah we only had 3 days notice that he was going to be our son.  We had prayed for him for many months. We wondered if he was conceived yet, what he would look like, if he would be a boy or girl.  We dreamed about all of the things we would do with him once he joined our family and we didn't get a glimpse of him until he was 24 hours old.  I will never forget our first look at him.  We had just stopped to get gas in the middle of snowy Wyoming.  I had been texting with our social worker in Utah all morning getting updates on when his birth mother would sign over her rights and we could finally see his face.  It was the best feeling in the world to finally get a picture.  Rob and I could not stop looking at him. (I'm pretty sure it is more dangerous to look at pictures of your newborn son on your cell phone while driving then it is to text. I tried to keep Rob focused and only allowed him short glances at the phone while driving. :)) We gushed about how cute he was and how big his eyes were.  He was the cutest little baby we had ever seen!  

Sweet Baby Ivy #2

  This time around we thought the experience would be the same, so what an unexpected and sweet blessing it was to open an email from our social worker last week and find a picture of our cute little peanut attached.  Rob was at the library studying and I was at home with J.  I called him to tell him to open his email.   Rob's first comment was "it looks kind of like a t-rex baby to me." :)  I assured him that it would not be a t-rex but a little human. I don't know if he was excited or a bit disappointed at that news. I have studied that little face over and over now.  What a blessing it is for an adoptive mom to get a peak at her newest little sweetheart before he/she is born.  It's a rare treat that I honestly never thought I would have so I want to share it with the world. :)  Here he/she is in full black and white glory.  Isn't that just the cutest little baby you have ever seen?  I thought so too. ;)

Update of the adoption process for #2:

• Had our one necessary home study visit last Wednesday to update Jeremiah in our home study.  We are now waiting on our background checks so that our home study can be cleared.
•  Working on filling out grant/loan applications so that they can be mailed off as soon as our home study is approved.
• A few of you have asked how you can give.  If you are interested in giving to our MICAH fund and would like to send a check now you could make out a check to MICAH Fund and mail it to our home address and we could get it to the office once we have final approval.  If you would like to give online I will give details of how to do that once we are approved by them. Any gifts given before we are officially approved would just go to the general fund not to us, so please wait a few more weeks to give online.  :) Thanks!