Great Joy!!

It is with great great joy that I introduce to you Alex David. Last Thursday we got guardianship of him and we finally got to bring him home and claim him as our son on Friday. We are not finished with the adoption yet but we have guardianship. Our social worker says the adoption should be a breeze though and should only take three to six months to complete. We can start the end of May. So we are hopeful that she is right and knows what she is talking about. But we finally have him! It has been amazing. The whole transition process has gone so smoothly so far. It has helped tremendously that we have known him since he was only a few months old and had established a good solid relationship with him for a long time already. He was DELIGHTED when we told him the news. He kept jumping up and down and laughing and hugging us. He wanted to pack up and come immediately so that’s what we did. It seemed like he really understood and he is so excited to finally have a daddy and a mama. He started calling us that right away and calls us that just about every time. Sometimes he forgets but not very often. Yes, we are super blessed! It is such a joy to have him in our house as a son. No more visits and begging to come. He can stay.

I’d like to give a little background on him. He is six years old. He went to the Children’s Home when he was only two months old. Anthony was there when he got there and I came shortly after. He didn’t have a name. The workers there all talked about it and he was given the name Alex (NOT SHORT FOR ALEXANDER) David. We will have the option to change his name when we do the adoption but we do not want to. We like the name and to change it would seem weird. He’s always been Alex. He has always had a special connection with Anthony. Even when he was a little he always was in search of Anthony and would spend many hours with him. When we first started talking about adopting it wasn’t even hard to figure out who to adopt. It was to be Alex of course. He is a little slow for his age. Not everyone can understand him when he talks. But we love him dearly and are excited to be his parents.

Anthony and I had one last romantic getaway before we got Alex. It was a wonderful time at a beautiful place. It was called Warm Waters and that’s exactly what it was. The water came from a spring in the ground and it was nice and warm and felt so good.

A huge thank you to each one that has been praying for us with the adoption case. God is answering our prayers step by step.

“They may not have my eyes, they may not have my smile, but they have all my heart.”