A Crazy 5 Months!

It's been a crazy 5 months!  I'm going to have to update my blog in increments so bear with me.  When most couples are expecting a baby they are given an approximate due date and around that time wait for contractions, or for their water to break.  Signs of labor.  When you are waiting to adopt you are waiting for the phone to ring.  Lets just say in the past 3 years we have had a lot of "false alarms"!  I hated it every time the phone rang and no matter how I tried to not let it bother me it just did.  On Tuesday July 3rd work called me around 1pm to see if I wanted the day off, due to a slow surgery schedule.  I never turn down an extra day off!   Around 3pm  we received a call from our case worker at LDS Family Services.  I knew it was the call we had been waiting so long for.  We had been selected by a birth mom in West Virginia!  She was about 21 weeks along and expecting a baby girl that she wanted us to adopt!  I wandered back to the bedroom so that I could hear her and write down as much information that I could.  Keith and Kaleb both followed me and Kaleb kept saying, "Are we getting our baby"?  He was so excited, and Keith and I were in shock.  She gave us the birthmom's phone number and said she was expecting a phone call from us soon.
That evening I called the number.  I was so nervous, but just tried to be myself.  I think she was nervous too.  We awkwardly introduced ourselves, and tried to tell each other as much as we could about each other.  She sent us pictures of her boys.  She already had pictures of us, so we sent her pictures of our house.  A couple days later she invited us down to WV to go to her usltrasound with her.  It was an amazing experience.  Keith sat in the waiting room with her 6 year old, and I went back with her and held her 19 month old (who screamed the entire time) while she had her ultrasound.  It wasn't like those you see in the movies or on tv, but I was so happy we could be there.  We all went out to lunch and then she invited us to come to her house.  We spent the day with her and her kids and then headed home that evening with ultrasound pictures of a tiny little girl.