Saturday, November 28, 2009

REFERRAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P is going to be a big brother!!!
A few weeks ago I noticed that our fingerprints were about to expire. I shot off an email to our agency to see what we needed to do to update them. When our social worker called me back, she said that things were looking good for us - that we should receive a referral by the end of the year. I started collecting and organizing the appropriate paperwork, and figured we'd hear the news around Christmas. What a great present!! Three days later, on Friday afternoon, we were getting ready to finally go out and celebrate P's KTA day at the "pencil sharpening restaurant" when my phone rang. I assumed it was my friend calling about plans for Saturday. It was 4:00. CJ brought the phone to me.
"Is it Nicky?"
"Uh, no."
"Hello?"
"Hi, Sandi. This is ***. I have some news for you but I'm not sure how you will feel about it."
"Ok."
"I have some paperwork here. For a little boy. He's really cute. Healthy and developing well. You can wait for the next one if you want, but I can't promise it will come this year. And it may be another boy."
It takes me a few minutes to process this. See, we had told our social worker we hoped for a girl to complete our family, but I think I always knew in my heart that we would have two boys. After all that we have been through to create our family, I am not about to question God's plan. About 45 minutes later, pictures arrived via email. Honestly, what's not to love? This past week has been a blur of paperwork as we prepare to officially accept the referral. Hopefully our boy will be home late spring/early summer. Stay tuned!

3 comments:

Holly said...

Sandi, he's so adorable! I love that they use those little chairs to take their photos in - a HS classmate has one posted of her little boy (who she has been waiting for overlong - I hope the process is quicker for you). Best of luck and congratulations!!

Jess said...

OH MY GOSH!!! He is beautiful, Sandi, and I'm sitting here all teary-eyed remembering the first pictures of Will sitting in the little red chair. I can't wait to hear more about your little guy. How old is he? I can't wait to see pics of him with his big brother!

Erika said...

My word! those Cheeks! Sooooo Cute!!!

Congrats again - keep us posted on how things progress, I will keep my fingers crossed.