Moving Ahead

Hi Everyone,

We just wanted to let you know how things are going. We have purchased our plane tickets, and we will be meeting Baby Miles for the first time on Tuesday, July 20th. We will arrive in Georgia on Monday afternoon, and Tuesday will be the official placement. At that time, the birthmother's revocation period will have ended. We talked with our social worker yesterday, and she feels very sure that the birthmom is confident in her decision and will not change her mind. Of course anything can happen between now and then, but there are some circumstances we aren't able to go into that make that extremely unlikely.

We had the hardest time coming up with a name we liked for him. Although we had a list of names to pick from, once we saw pictures of him they just didn't seem to fit. Last night we decided on the name Miles, and we are really happy with it. The caring home mom said that the name suits him really well.

Miles is growing quickly and doing great. He is already over his birth weight!

We have several prayer requests, and we would so appreciate your prayers. First, please pray for Grant. This past year has not only been emotional for us, but for him as well. I don't think we realized how difficult it is on him until the other night. During dinner, Grant stopped our conversation and said, "let's pray that our baby comes to be with us soon." We did that, and then again he stopped us and said, "and let's pray that the mommy doesn't change her mind." As we talked with him, it became clear that he is afraid we will get the baby and will have to give him back like we did with the first baby. We were able to explain to him that once we go to Georgia and meet Baby Miles, we won't have to give him back. This seemed to comfort him.

Also, please pray that our paperwork would go through quickly (and close to a weekend), so we can bring Miles home, and so Stephen won't have to take off much work for travel home. Stephen's work has an office not far from where we are staying, and his boss is graciously allowing him to work from there. We are planning to drive home, so Stephen will have to take some time off for that.

Thank you, friends!