Conference Call

I just listened to the conference call recording, and it looks like we should receive a court date sometime in December. The great news is that on average the court dates are being scheduled no longer than a month out. So our court date could be scheduled as early as January. That leaves us traveling in February or early March. Please remember these are just our best guesses based on the averages we have been given.

We always appreciate your prayers. Please continue to pray:

That we will have no major issues passing court.

That our baby girl will continue to grow and gain weight.

That we, and Vaughn, will be prepared for her homecoming.

Alex

We have a daughter!

We received our referral November 5th. I'm so sorry that I didn't post sooner. I'll be honest. It has taken all of my brain capacity to remember to update Facebook and attempt to get our "announcement" email out to every person I can think of. I promise to try and do better in the future. ;)

Our referral came much sooner than we expected - just over 7 months into our wait. So I was in complete shock when I checked my messages and heard, "Hi Alex, this is Sara from Gladney. I have your referral. Call me back when you can." What?!?! I completely freaked out. I hung up the phone before listening for her extension. Called 411 to get the number to Gladney. My hands were shaking, Vaughn was cackling in the background wondering what I was so excited about and why I kept saying, "Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh."

I went and picked Doug up from work and we headed home. We listened as a virtual stranger described our daughter to us. (Our original caseworker moved recently and I'm pretty sure neither of us had ever spoken on the phone with our new caseworker before this point.) She told us that she is 10.5 months old - now 11 months on Monday. She is the most beautiful little girl with big, studious eyes and beautiful pouty lips. Sara said that her caregivers describe her as quiet and reserved. In the pictures she showed us we saw this strong and curious little girl. She looks so old in her pictures - much like Vaughn did. Not much of a babyface and with a lot of thought behind her sweet eyes and not so much as one smile. Exactly like her big brother.

We are now waiting for our court date. We hope to receive one in about 2-6 weeks. We have an update on Monday and I will post something further at that point. I will definitely post when we receive our court date.

Thank you for praying and supporting us through our wait,

Alex