Adoption: A Birthday Surprise

Well it's been an interesting 24 hours in the Altmyer house! So today is my birthday (happy birthday to me! haha) and late yesterday afternoon we got a call from our agency...they had a baby. And he needed a home NOW.

So they sent us all the info they had - the mother's background info, her social/psychological evaluation, all 88 pages of the baby's medical records, info about the openness of the adoption, everything...oh yeah, and 3 precious little pictures. Yeah, go ahead and say it "Awwww!" ;)

He was the sweetest little boy...5 weeks old. He was born 8 weeks premature and is ready to go home this Friday...but he needed a family. He has a prefect tiny nose, flawless olive skin, and the most kissable little pout. Oh, he is so sweet.

Unfortunately the finances just didn't work out for this situation...if only we had a couple thousand more saved right now :( So we were scrambling for the last 24 hours trying everything we could to scrape together that couple thousand, but it just didn't fall into place for us.

While we were cautiously excited about this, we are not heartbroken that it didn't work out. We have faith that when the situation is right for us, then everything will fall into place to allow us to move forward. If we've done all that we can and it didn't work out, then it wasn't mean to be. And this sweet little boy will hopefully be with his new family by the end of the week.

I know that our time is coming soon, I can really feel it.

But what a fun little birthday surprise!