The 1st time i saw him

I was thinking back to our 1st trip to meet "A" & love looking at the pics to remind me it was all real. I still cannot post "A"'s picure until the adoption is final. This is Greg loving up little "A" - I cannot wait until i can show everyone his sweet little face. I saw his little face for the 1st time in the referral picture the adoption agency sent us via e-mail...he looked so much like our Thomas - that made me want to cry. When we got to the orpahange (just took 1 hour from our hotel) we got out of the van & it was freezing..we walked into the orphanage & i was just taking steps..not absorbing the hugeness of the experience but just kept moving. We got in & had to put blue booties over our feet & then we continued to walk to this big playroom...thomas had fallen asleep so we carried him in. I walked in & saw across a big empty room a caregiver & a little tiny boy standing near her leg. He wasn't moving but just standing their as if he were waiting..i'm sure he's too small to really understand that he was meeting his parents for the 1st time but we understood that we were meeting our son & there was never a doubt since we had first been told that we were matched with a little boy from Siberia, that he wasn't ours. That moment was so full of emotion, so beautiful... & then when we tried to set thomas down he woke up!! So we had our moment & then it became brother meeting brother & that was amazing...especially when we got to feed "A" his snack & we let thomas feed him..

..so at that 1st meeting "A" who had been a mystery for so long became a reality..we finally knew who we had been working so hard for. Through all the garage sales, the dance, the letter we sent out & the spa party, we didn't know who we were doing it all for, we were going on pure faith. How wonderful to know now who God prepared for us. It's so humbling to be given a child to adopt, to be trusted with a little life..to be allowed to take him home with us, to be able to give him a new life. Now we're just waiting for that court date which again, we'll have to live on faith that we'll go back soon to bring him home.