For those of you who may have just joined our journey through the world of fostering and adoption let me catch you up to speed semi-quickly. For those of you that already know this story, walk with me for a moment down memory lane and check out a few pics you may not have seen before.
Baby Girl is our 15 month old daughter. She was added to our family when she was a wee 4 days old. Look how tiny and precious she was the day I brought her home from the hospital.
15 months ago, as I sat in the nursery at the hospital and waited on paperwork to be processed, I had no idea how this little girl would continue to steal my heart time and time again. What an incredible stroke of luck display of God's timing that we had already planned (weeks before) family photos for the day she arrived!
Her tiny little head fit perfectly in the palm of Luke's hand, just as her tiny little self fit perfectly into our family.
We were all smitten with this little, bright-eyed beauty from the moment we laid eyes on her.
That was 15 months ago.
This week, we celebrate our love for her once more.
On Friday (as in, tomorrow!) I will excitedly meet Baby Girl's adoption social worker at our county's courthouse and file the necessary paperwork to make her a legal member of our family!
We feel so blessed that God has led us to this place and that she will be our daughter legally, on paper, as she has been for so long now in our hearts. The process to file is relatively simple. The Clerk of Court will hold our adoption paperwork for the mandatory 10 days. At the end of the 10 days he should sign them making Baby Girl officially ours!
With Aaron it took 17 days for the clerk to sign and with some friends of ours it took much, much longer. So, I'm praying that by the 1st week in February she will officially be a Beaver! We couldn't be happier!
And, I don't think she could be either!
Baby Girl is our 15 month old daughter. She was added to our family when she was a wee 4 days old. Look how tiny and precious she was the day I brought her home from the hospital.
15 months ago, as I sat in the nursery at the hospital and waited on paperwork to be processed, I had no idea how this little girl would continue to steal my heart time and time again. What an incredible Her tiny little head fit perfectly in the palm of Luke's hand, just as her tiny little self fit perfectly into our family.
We were all smitten with this little, bright-eyed beauty from the moment we laid eyes on her.That was 15 months ago.This week, we celebrate our love for her once more.
On Friday (as in, tomorrow!) I will excitedly meet Baby Girl's adoption social worker at our county's courthouse and file the necessary paperwork to make her a legal member of our family!
We feel so blessed that God has led us to this place and that she will be our daughter legally, on paper, as she has been for so long now in our hearts. The process to file is relatively simple. The Clerk of Court will hold our adoption paperwork for the mandatory 10 days. At the end of the 10 days he should sign them making Baby Girl officially ours!
With Aaron it took 17 days for the clerk to sign and with some friends of ours it took much, much longer. So, I'm praying that by the 1st week in February she will officially be a Beaver! We couldn't be happier!
And, I don't think she could be either!