our friends met her!!

I was so excited to hear Sunday morning that our friends met our baby. :) They were able to hold her and love on her and tell her "mommy and daddy are coming soon". This family goes to school and church with us and they are adopting an eight year old girl and bringing her home Friday. Amazingly she and our baby ended up in the same room at the foster home. Usually babies are in one area and the older girls are somewhere else. But our friend said that our little one was sleeping in the big girl room in a toddler bed. I hope she will like her crib for a while once she is home. I think being with the older girls will help prepare her to be a little sister once she is home. Our friends said she was beautiful and she laughed when they talked to her. Love it!! I can't imagine how I will feel when I see our friends at the airport with their daughter who we have prayed home since last summer. What a wonderful sight that will be!! Hoping to hear about a court date soon....

hoping for fast timelines

Our baby was moved to Addis to the CWA foster home. This will be her last destination until we bring her home. We are hoping that this may mean that we will get a court date soon. There is still a possibility that we will only travel once. There has been some talk about allowing families to travel only once until after the recess in August and September. Oh, how I hope that we make the deadline!! Two great things about her being moved to Addis...we get pictures and updates more frequently and our friends who leave tomorrow to go get their precious daughter will get to meet our little girl. I cannot tell you how much it means to me to have my friend go and hold her and see her and be able to describe her to me. We have walked this journey together and to have her love on her before we do is just awesome!! For now I am falling in love with her sweet eyes and anticipating the day we get to travel. Thanks for your continued prayers....

peace and love

Just wanted you all to know that we are finding peace in this change in our adoption process. God has chosen a special little girl to be our daughter and she has an easy face to fall in love with quickly. :) Her 2nd medicals have been completed and she appears to be healthy. Developmentally she is doing all the things that a 6 month old should be doing...making sounds, sitting up, grasping for toys, recognizing her nannies. We also have heard that she is sweet, snuggly and interactive. All of these descriptions just make us want to get to her even quicker. I'm thinking we will end up traveling twice, but there are still two more days to get our papers submitted to court. I can deal with the two trips...I'm just hoping things move quickly for us. We just don't have a lot more WAIT in us. I can't wait for all of you to see her...for now, trust me, she's a cutie. Our good friends, the Garretts, are in Ethiopia now and I have thought about them constantly. You can see their journey by looking at my list of favorites (the garrett journey). Our baby will be best friends with their little girl! Thanks for your continued prayers. Hoping to give you a court date soon....