Nuestro Muchacho Del Bebé (Our Baby Boy)
We have just returned from Guatemala after a three day turn around to meet our 8 day old son and sign the Power of Attorney to start the adoption process down there. We are still awaiting blood testing (cross your fingers) and a full medical (although we did accompany our foster mother to the local doctor for his very first doctor’s visit).
We traveled to Guatemala on faith and hope…not knowing anything about him except that he was a boy. When we arrived our foster mother handed him to us after kissing him goodbye and our lawyer told us he was only 8 days old. In fact, he was so young that they had to look up his name and birth date, as they had just received him from the birth mother (or whomever had been caring for him since his birth).
He is a healthy, gorgeous, and happy baby boy and we are hoping to complete the process before next year is over. Our agency has no estimate on time frames but is hopeful that things will run between 6 and 10 months.
We are still deciding on a name and luckily our foster mother, bless her heart, will call him by that. We have her daughter’s email and her address so we can stay in touch with her and send her the name when we chose it. We feel honored to have such a loving foster mother to take care of him and we are looking forward to her updates.
I will post more in the next few days regarding the process we took to get to Guatemala but I wanted to share a picture of our future son because he is beautiful.
Oh, I have tears and chills. How exciting is this!?!? I am praying for everything to go as it should!
Steph
Congratulations on the birth of your son! I hope his adoption will go speedily and that you will soon have him in your arms every day!
Joy!
Happy New Year!
Congratulations from the bottom of my heart. I’m thrilled for you.
Oh my, what a handsome guy! I’m so happy for you guys. Congrats!
Congratulations on your new son! I look forward to hearing new as you have more.
Oh my! Congratulations–I hope the process goes smoothly and quickly..what a way to wrap up 2007!
Congratulations.
All my best wishes for a life filled with love and happiness.
OMG, Marcie! I’m so happy for you!
Congratulations! What a sweet little boy!
He is a cutie. So glad you were able to get down and get it all done before the end of the year.
I’ll be praying for a speedy process.
Oh wow!! Congratulations!! I’m so excited for you. Wow! What a gift.
Marcie!!! I’m so happy to hear this!!! What a Christmas gift…
Congratulations!!
Congratulations on your new baby boy! How wonderful!
This is so exciting! We are so happy for you! Congrats. I hope everything happens very quickly!
He is perfect! What a wonderful Christmas gift. 2008 will be great!
chris
I’m so happy for you. 2008 will be a wonderful year for you and your family! Congrats!
Congratulations! That’s awesome!
How about Nathan or Nathaniel? They both mean “God has given”.
Congratulations! What a terrific end to 2007 and beginning to 2008.
CONGRATS!
He is gorgeous!
Welcome to the wonderful world of adoption!
What a blessing!
That’s such terrific news- very happy for you and your family. What a great way to start your new year!
Congratulations! He is beautiful and i hope the process is complete soon so that he can come home and be with you.
Thanks so much for participating in this week’s Carnival of Family Life hosted at Pajama Mommy Community! Be sure to drop by and check out some of the other wonderful entries this week!
Awwww, he’s so cute!!!! Hoping for a swift and easy adoption for you!
congrats!!!!
hope your baby bring love and joy in to your lives.