Tuesday, October 2, 2012
We have our baby girl!
So,
As I am typing this our little one is in her bassinet fussing a little bit.....Okay I'm back...I just got the phone, scanned a paper into ou insurance guy and paid a bill. Now I am holding baby I and typing with one hand.
Having a new baby isn't easy, especially the lack of sleep. But I just have a giant smile in my heart, because Heavenly Father answered our prayers and sent us this precious baby that fits so well into our family. She has such a familiarity about her. We have bonded since the first day and I can't imagine life without her.
Here's her story:
So, we had been feeling a sense of urgency that our new daughter would be joining our family soon. I was nudging our adoption agency Heart and Soul adoptions a bit. They said that the birth moms here were all expecting boys or unknown. It was so hard to wait.
One morning Wes and I were talking and thinking about maybe opening it up to boys, but I still wanted our daughter to have a sister so bad! But, we thought maybe the Lord wanted us to get a boy. I still didn't feel good about it. Wes left the room and saw L out in the front room playing. He came back in and said, I think we should open it up to travel and keep it to girls only. That morning I checked my email and it was from one of the ladies at Heart & Soul. She said she had a situation that we may be interested in, it was a baby girl who was born the day before in Michigan and they would choose us for her if we were interested in traveling out there. I talked to Wes and showed him the email. It had a picture of her in it.
We both felt good about it. The lady at the agency said she would like us to be in Michigan the next morning. We spent most of that day ordering our tickets online/over the phone and packing and finding a babysitter for our 3 kids at home.
Then we flew out. When we landed we texted the agency and asked if the Birth mom K had signed. They replied back, "Yes!" We were so excited and still in shock.
We got our stuff and headed to the hospital. When we were waiting in the waiting room for the social worker there was this African American lady that walked past a few times. I thought it could be K, but wasn't sure. Then another girl came in and bought a bag of chips from the vending machines, slowly. Then she turned around and said, "Can I ask you guys a question? Are you the J family?" We said "yes" and she introduced herself as K's best friend.
When we went into the hospital room K & A (her best friend)were laying sideways and baby I was in the middle of them all bundled up. I walked over to K and she stood up and we hugged. Wes and I both asked how she was doing and she said fine. Then she walked over and got baby I and asked if we wanted to hold her. Of course I said Yes and I started bawling. The birth mom then started crying and went into the bathroom to compose herself.
To make a long story short she named her Anasia Renee and we ended up using her first name as her middle name. We signed some papers. It wasn't as dramatic as I was expecting. We only saw the social worker for a few minutes.The birth mom loves baby I so much, she had a hard time. So, did her best friend. She (K's best friend) wanted her mom to adopt her, but it just didn't work out that way.
When we went to say good bye it was hard. She leaned in the car seat that Wes was holding and gave her daughter a kiss. Then she and her best friend called a bus/van to come pick them up and we left in our rental car. Everything went so smooth.
From our past experiences I was in such shock that it went so well. I was expecting something to go wrong and for someone to take her from us.
We went to the store to get a few things and then checked into our hotel. In the mean time we had managed to lose our nice Cannon camera. It made me just sick to my stomach. Not only because it was expensive, but that camera had valuable pictures on it. Good thing Wes felt inspired to at least take one picture with his cell phone. So, we have one picture of the birth mom with baby I in the hospital.
We ended up staying in our hotel, going out to dinner once, and the store a few times. Then we flew home. Which, I was still expecting someone to say for some reason we couldn't take her and rip her out of our arms.
Now it is a few weeks later. We are sleep deprived to say the least and even though she gets fussy a bit, (like a normal baby does) and taking care of a newborn is a full time job...we just love her and feel so blessed every day that we have our sweet beautiful baby I.
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