This story begins a long time ago...when we decided to adopt. Back in February of 2012. We moved forward with getting approved to adopt and were approved through one agency at the beginning of June. We waited and waited then decided to go through two other agencies and see if that could help us find our little someone. Our book was shown to the first couple mid March 2013. There were others we had our book shown to along the way. Then on April 6th we got a call saying that we could have a baby girl if we went to Nevada to pick her up. We drove down on April 7th and had that sweet baby girl in our arms for 3 hours until the birth mother came to the hospital to discharge her because she chose to parent her herself. It was heart breaking. But we moved forward and kept trying.
We where told about our birth mom on May 1st. We decided to have our book shown to her. After almost a week of waiting we got the call that she had picked us on the 8th of May. She was due May 28th so we still had to wait. We waited and then on the 14th we heard from our case worker that the birth mom was going to be induced in a week. So we got to work and set things up. Cleaned things and prepared for a baby. On Monday the 20th of May we got a call that the birth mom had gone into labor a day before she was scheduled to be induced. Soon after the first call we heard she had had the baby girl and that we should go to the hospital.
We got to the hospital at around 8pm. Catherine was in the nursery and had just finished her first bath. The nurse was checking her out and telling us all about her! She was perfect! She is perfect! They gave us a room and we stayed there that night and fed and changed her all night. The birth mom decided she wanted to meet Catherine the next day so the case worker took her down and they spent a little time together. We stayed at the hospital taking care of her and falling in love. The birth mom saw her one more time that afternoon. The night of the 21st we signed all the paperwork and Catherine was officially ours. We spent that night to and were discharged the following day on Wednesday the 22nd.
We have been with her here ever since and we love her to the moon and back. Elsie is doing great being a big sister and a great helper. Catherine is a happy baby and does really well in the eating department. We are so blessed and so happy to have this little girl be part of our family!
1 Samuel 1:27 For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
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How wonderful!
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