It's A Boy!!

Yay! We are so excited to announce that we are now a family of 4! We have 2 sons! Earlier this week, I was literally in the middle of getting my hair colored when my phone rings and guess what??? It was our agency telling me that they had a child for us. I literally could not get my brain to work. Needless to say, I left in a hurry with my hair dripping wet to race home to open the email of our sweet little BOY. At this point, Carter still doesn't even know he is for sure getting a brother/sister. We put him in the bath and hurried to the computer. WOW! Tears of joy, excitement, and amazement of God streamed down both of our faces. We literally could not take our eyes off of this sweet, precious child of God!

 

Once we composed ourselves, we got Carter out of the bath and called him in the living room to tell him. Jeremy said, "Carter guess what? God gave you a brother tonight!" As you can imagine Carter was completely excited! This little boy has wanted a brother for so long now and his dream finally came true. Carter told Jeremy, "Dad, God knew what I wanted. He knew in my heart that I wanted a baby brother!" We could not get Carter to quit looking at his baby brother that night and it was the first thing he asked this morning. Believe it or not, he seems to get it that God is going to take care of his brother for a while until we are able to go get him. He told us that he wanted to just get in the car right now and drive to get him! :) He also told us that he wanted to get a picture to wear around his neck to show all of his friends at school who his baby brother was. So....of course I made a "homemade" necklace for him to wear to school Wednesday. 

 

We prayed for very specific things for this child and EVERY detail we prayed for is seen in our new little boy.  The funny part of the story is that I have been praying for God to give me a clear sign to know that when we received our referral, we would know instantly that he/she was our child.  I am not good at reading into things, so I need something crystal clear and I stressed that to God.  :)  Well, those of you who know me well enough know that I have an extremely weird phobia with mushrooms.  Not mushrooms that are on a plate, but the extremely creepy ones that grow in people's yards.  I hate them so much that the hair on my arms will literally stand up when I see them and I will panic.  Yes....it is weird.  When we

read the descriptions of our birth parents, they were your everyday average people except for the fact that it specifically and randomly (completely random)said that the birth father "does not like mushrooms".  It doesn't mention anything about food with the birth mother, but was randomly put in the birth father's bio.  For any other family reading that, it wouldn't have meant a thing....but for this family, we automatically started cracking up/crying and knew God had given him to us.     

 

There is so much to write about at this time that I honestly cannot share it all in one post. There is literally an amazing story of how God has worked in our lives throughout this process that we want to share soon. You always read about these glory stories of people getting matched with their child, but you do not see any stories out there about the "not so peachy" matches. We have one of those to share and only hope it will help another person along their journey. To be continued.....