Baby Fever... Creating the Nursery.

Per our family's suggestion, and against our adoption agency's recommendation, we decided to start working on the nursery.  We decided to let ourselves go and start looking for themes, cribs, and everything else that entail putting a nursery together.  We have been restraining to do this since we received the first phone call from out first potential birthmother.

By this time, we felt very comfortable and assured with Sophie that we also announced it to family and friends.

We decided to dismantle the TV room downstairs.  It had the most consistent temperature and can be easily darkened! 

David prepped and repainted the room.  He changed it from "Turkish Coffee" to a light gray that he picked out to match Masen's color palette.

No nursery would be complete without disco lights!

Birthmom!

We finally met Sophie the first week of June.  We flew to Panama City in Florida.  We have been talking on the phone and exchanging e-mails for a while before we met.   

I will never forget the time David said "there she is" when we saw her get out of her car.  I guess I can never quite describe how we felt.  We spent some time getting to know more about each other.  We even met her son, Corey.  We also shared a meal with Sophie's mother, brother and sister.

We had our "match meeting" with our adoption counselor.  This was the official meeting where we declare to each party that we "really like each other".  David and I shared our history, family values, motivation for adoption, and expectations.  Sophie also shared with us her story and why she chose us to be the parents of her child.  What a great gift!   She is a strong-minded, smart, and beautiful person.  We love her like family already!

Family is Always There

We have gone on hiatus after having a learning experience that we can never forget.   After San Diego, our adoption fell through.  I will never forget that Friday evening when we found out that we were not going to have the baby.  I was still in the office seeing patients.  David went home with my parents.

Mom and Dad were visiting from Austin... and we were glad that they were here to pre-occupy our time.  We watched movies all night.

But, I remember David and I waking up at 4:30 a.m. Saturday and cried ourselves back to sleep.  I didn't realize that it would hurt so much... and the baby was not even biologically related to us.   When my sister, Raissa and her husband, Eric lost their first pregnancy... Raissa said that all she wanted was to be with mom and dad.

I was glad that mom and dad were there for us, too.
WE want to be parents to someone special, just like them.