We are so excited to say that we have accepted the referral of a 19 month old little boy!!
Yay!! Yay!! Yay!! Yay!! Yay!! Yay!! Yay!! Yay!! Yay!! Yay!! Yay!! Yay!! Yay!!
He is beautiful and perfect and wonderful and precious and we are so in love with him!!
It all went down on Thursday afternoon, two days ago. The boys and I had been to the zoo all day, having a great time. It started to get pretty hot in the afternoon, so we stopped off to get sno cones on the way home. We love sno cones!! We drove home, the boys still had some of theirs left, which happened to be cherry, so I carried the sno cones inside and set them down on the kitchen counter. Then I went out the front door to grab the mail out of the mail box, and in the 4.8 seconds that it took to do that, Erik had picked up his sno cone, taken it into the playroom, and dropped it all over the carpet in the playroom! Ugh! Bright red cherry sno cone splashed all over on berber carpet! So after a few choice grumbles, I grabbed a little scrub brush and a wash cloth and set to work trying to clean it up before it dried.
The phone rang.
I came so close to not answering it.
Seriously, seriously close to not answering it.
But for some reason I got up off my knees, walked into the kitchen, and picked it up.
It was Irina from our adoption agency.
Even though it is such a total rarity for her to call, the bells did not go off in my head at all that this could be THE CALL. I was still distracted with the carpet and all, so I chatted with her a bit before she finally said something like, "Is this a good time to talk?" "Oh sure," I said. "I'm just trying to clean red sno cone out of the carpet, (grumble, grumble, grumble)." Can you believe I was so fixated on that goofy carpet?!! So she laughed a little and said, "Can I ask you to sit down?"
Well at that point, the lights went on, the bells rang, and angels started singing, I started gasping and shrieking and laughing, and of course I sat down!
Somewhat coherently, I just started saying, "Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness!!!"
She tells me she has a referral for us. A little boy!! She tells me his birthday: December 13, 2010!! And she asks if I want to hear more.
"YES!!!!" I shout.
We talk for a while longer, and she sends me a long email with lots of attachments, including a photo of the little guy. Oh my goodness, is he a cutie! I'm not able to post his picture, but take my word for it, he is a honey pie.
I called Jerry at work and tell him the big news! Then we told the boys! They were super excited too and wanted to go get their little brother right away!
Jerry and I talk to Irina more the next afternoon, Friday. We officially accepted the referral (yippee!!!!!!)and talked about next steps as well.
I am just totally on cloud nine with this little honey. I can't wait to see him! We don't know when our travel dates will be: maybe in a month, maybe less, maybe more. Right now, I am just so excited that we have our referral. Praise God!!!