tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80384269666908920192024-02-18T20:25:26.639-08:00searching for baby GOur journey to growing our family. Infertility, miscarriages, adoption scams, reclaim, and failed adoptions and last but not least a successful adoption that led us to our precious boy: you name it , we have done it. This is our story..Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468143745366458724noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038426966690892019.post-60089431300905057312017-11-04T15:23:00.003-07:002017-11-04T15:28:12.677-07:00When a cashier recognizes you..Welp I was at Target today getting a ton of diapers and random groceries when the cashier told me she recognized my name from following our blog. How crazy is that??Talking to her made me get a bug up my butt to find time to make an update :) If you are reading this you totally made my day!<br />
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As most of you know Baby G number three was born on March 4, 2017, exactly four weeks early. We named her Lux Ariadne <3. She surprised us with my water breaking unknowingly. I was at an appointment getting my blood pressure checked when I just happened to tell my doctor I had felt a weird pop earlier that morning. She did an amniotic fluid test and it came back positive. Labor was beyond easy. I was dilated all the way to a seven without feeling any pain. I didn't want to lose my chance at an epidural so I had them give me one even though I was completely fine at that point. Part of me wishes I didn't get one because she was born less than an hour after that. Two pushes and BAM she was out:)<br />
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At first we thought she was going to be fine being born at 36 weeks but her breathing and blood sugar levels went down rapidly. She spent eight days in the NICU and was then healthy enough to come home.<br />
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Adding baby number three was a surprisingly an easy adjustment. We are already changing two diapers, what's one more? ;)<br />
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Lux is 8 months old today! She's super smiley, and you can definitely tell she is the third child. At this age both Rev and Kaetheo were crawling and Lux isn't even close - I prefer it that way!<br />
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As for other updates, Kaetheo is now fully potty trained! Thank goodness three in diapers was short lived. Rev is close behind, it's just a matter of time and she will be using the potty just like her big brother.<br />
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Luckily we already had already reached our out of pocket max with our insurance with having Lux because Kaetheo has had quite a eventful year with doctors and emergency rooms. He just loves to jump around and play hard. He had his second set of stitches back in April when he fell while running to hide in his closet and sliced his ear. It did require stitches.<br />
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Two weeks ago he had a surgery to correct a couple of minor things from when he was an infant.<br />
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Along with that yesterday he ran to climb on his daddy's computer chair and as it spun he fell off and cut his eye. I talked the ER doc into just gluing it instead of getting stitches because this boy has had enough! Luckily he said the scar wouldn't be much different either way.<br />
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Revie is obsessed with Lux. She is her newest favorite toy and she never gets sick of her. She keeps busy by trying to help mommy as much as she can.</div>
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Summer was eventful! We camped a full ten days with all three kiddos in a rented camper this year. It was a lot of fun. I think the kiddos loved the freedom of getting dirty, riding bikes, playing in the rain, etc.! </div>
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The kiddos got to trick or treat a couple different days this year. On actual Halloween they dressed up as Minions with their cousins. It was pretty cute to see a bunch of toddler Minion heads running from house to house.<br />
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People have asked if our family is complete and to be honest we are not ready to say that. I think Jordan and I hope to have at least one more <3<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jordan and I were at volleyball when I started to not feel well. My stomach was turning and my abdomen was cramping. Thoughts started running through my mind and I was in denial ..there is NO WAY. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I told Jordan we needed to stop at Target on our way home and we did. De ja vu hit when I went in the aisle to buy that test. It brought back so many emotions .. Hope, fear , excitement, anger, sadness everything ! This was the first time I was in that aisle feeling in shock instead of full fledged fear of disappointment. I couldn't believe I was buying a pregnancy test.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I quickly ran into the bathroom did my thing ..put it on the counter and ran out to meet our babysitter at the car. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Kaylah I'm looking at it now and there is only one... Ohhhhh wait.... There's a light pink line now. We're pregnant. "</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My stomach sunk... Fear and excitement struck me hard . What if the baby isn't in the right uterus (remember I have 2) what if we lose it.. Blahblah. </span></div>
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First off if you have not seen it yet, my mom made a video for us documenting our entire adoption journey to Kaetheo. If you haven't yet seen it go watch it! It is actually part 2 of 2. We will do the infertility part soonish. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeAabwN39xM" target="_blank">Searcing for Baby G Adoption Video</a><br>
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In November of last year I noticed that I needed more energy to chase around our kiddos so I decided a lifestyle change was needed. I officially have lost 50LBS! I am pretty proud of myself for losing all the baby weight & more. I work at least 3 times a week and I am loving all the energy I have. <33</div>
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Some have asked us if we plan to have more kiddos and if you would have asked me about 6 months ago I would have said that I didn't think so. It is extremely hard to admit but after having Reverie I suffered from some extreme post partum anxiety. I didn't tell many people because I didn't want anyone to think I was ungrateful for my two amazing blessings that came into my life. </div>
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People have asked how we stayed so strong through our infertility and adoption struggle and the answer is we hid it. We even hid it from ourselves. The moment after having Reverie I struggled with pretty intense anxiety which I had never experienced before. My anxiety stemmed from our failed adoptions, miscarriages, failed cycles, etc.. </div>
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We went into the adoption process pretty naive thinking certain situations wouldn't happen to us. After what feels like everything bad DID infact happen to us I was also expecting the worst with our pregnancy. I waited to go into labor early. I waited to be told we lost her. I waited for the bad to happen because I was trying to prepare myself for another tragedy. Everything with Reverie's birth went perfect, so then I assumed something was going to happen afterwards. In the meantime of worrying about my pregnancy I became very protective of Kaetheo. A little excessive, but I ask you to please not blame me. </div>
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If you are a friend, family member or acquaintance that maybe has witnessed me be a little over protective I ask you to put yourself in my shoes. After going through multiple losses I was and am doing everything I can to never lose another child. Little things like no blankets in the crib until the age of one or double checking a car seat belt might seem tedious, but if I can prevent one less tragedy in my life by those small things I think it is worth it. </div>
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I have been feeling a lot better, a lot more like myself. My mind isn't as anxious anymore and I am so thankful for that. I still struggle with anxiety a little bit, but I think it's way more of a normal amount that comes with being parents to two toddlers:) If anyone you know is going through any sort of PPD or PPA please reach out to them. I wish I would have understood when doctors were asking me after my pregnancy if I felt depressed, that anxiety is also a major post partum problem. To anyone that is suffering now: IT DOES GET BETTER! It took over a year for me:)</div>
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Now on to some happy stuff: NOW if you ask me now if we are going to have more children the answer is YES. We are not even close to done. I wanted six kiddos when Jordan and I got married and we compromised at four. I believe however it's not up to us. It is up to fate. We can confidently say we plan to start the adoption process here again in the near future but we just might change it up a bit:)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468143745366458724noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038426966690892019.post-6128389200850326082015-11-04T17:15:00.001-08:002015-11-04T18:05:39.391-08:00we would do it againLately my heart has been broken by some words people have said to me regarding adoption. I have been told more than a handful of times by many people that when it comes to the decision to adopt they decided against it because "I never want to go through what you went through."<br />
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He started crawling at 7 months and at 10 months he started walking! His smiles and kisses are my favorite thing in the morning. He loves his little sister, he plays peekaboo with her and loves to try to get her to laugh. I can't believe he is going to be a year old in just two weeks. Someone tell him to stop growing so fast! </div>
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Ever since I was twelve years old I knew having children would be difficult for me. What I didnt know was how difficult emotionally it would be. Try to think back when you were twelve years old.. would you have known how big of a deal a uterus is? I didn't.. I was having so much pain that I just wanted my doctors to take it out. In fact at twelve years old I was hoping for it to be removed. I wanted my pain to be over forever.<br>
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This was the appointment that finally gave us some answers. The appointment that proved to everyone I wasn't faking. The gynecologist didn't want to examine me because I was too young, but at this point we were desperate for answers so my mom told them to do it anyway. In this exam the doctor found a large mass in my abdomen, about the size of a grapefruit/softball. After this mass was found I had an ultra sound which confirmed the mass, but didn't show what the mass was exactly so they referred me to have an MRI and laparoscopy.<br>
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My mom felt differently. She knew what this meant for my future, no chance at ever having children. She was upset that the Mayo was just going to take away any chance of me ever being able to have children. In complete panic and desperation she called the office of the specialist (Dr. Nagel) that our original gynecologist told us we would never get into see. She spoke to the receptionist and cried to her on the phone. She bawled. She told them what the Mayo Clinic was going to do and the receptionist put my mom on hold. A couple of minutes later a new voice came on the phone; it was Dr. Nagel himself. The doctor that we were told was way too busy for us. He told my mom that he doesn't have any normal business hour appointments open, but he would keep the office open for us if we could come in after business hours.<br>
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From a 1 percent chance to a 100 percent miracle -- Kaetheo is going to be a big brother! Somehow by the grace of God we are pregnant, and expecting baby G #2 in the next couple months! </div>
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The story of us finding out the miracle that we are pregnant is pretty amazing. I have been so afraid to share this exciting news with our amazing followers (specifically the ones that have suffered infertility as we have) because I know how painful a pregnancy announcement can be. This blog was mainly to share our adoption journey and obviously we will continue to do so because adoption is what has made our lives whole, but we have decided to also share all our efforts to becoming a family, and that includes treatments we went through for three years in hopes it will give others hope. I'll admit we haven't shared much of our infertility story because, as many of you know, it's a subject that makes people feel very vulnerable. </div>
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Judge Mcphereson proceeded to ask us questions and ask us if we promise to love and support Kaetheo for his entire life, and of course we both were anxious to say yes. After that we were done and she told Kaetheo that she is going to approve his adoption! If the camera was in front of us you would have seen both of us smiling ear to ear.<br>
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Once we were all finished we all went out to celebrate at a restaurant in our home town!<br><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468143745366458724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038426966690892019.post-78347127115009345962015-02-03T14:54:00.000-08:002015-02-03T15:06:23.825-08:00Holiday and New Year update! <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So much has happened in the last couple months! The holidays have kept us very busy. It is amazing how different this year was from last year. Last year we spent days dreaming about what life would be like with a child and this year we actually got to experience it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Christmas Eve was special this year! At 4:30 pm on Christmas Eve we became a forever family of three! It didn't feel real and on Christmas EVE?? What an amazing Christmas gift. We were over the moon this Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On top of our family Christmases, we got to add another little family Christmas with Kaetheo's birth family, and it was pretty amazing! We had them over to our house, exchanged presents, they got to hold and play with Kaetheo while we all caught up since we hadn't seen each other for a couple weeks! Kaetheo even got to meet his birth great-grandma! Although we have only known them for a couple months, our hearts just have this amazing love for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We read on a blog post recently about the term "WHY ME?" and it hit home. The excerpt below was particularly meaningful to us.</span><br />
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<i><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">When we were diagnosed with unexplained infertility, I always asked myself, "WHY ME?"</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">When the going got tough with the adoption process, I often times asked myself, "WHY ME?"</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">It's easy to be angry when you wonder WHY the adoption process is so hard. Why it's such a</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">roller coaster. Why there's so much red tape.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">But when you hold that sweet baby in your arms, it will be worth it.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">These days I find myself looking in the mirror while holding Olivia [she loves to see herself], and I ask myself the same question: "WHY ME?" except in a completely different context.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Why did God choose me to be Olivia's mom?</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Why did her birth momma feel I was deserving to be this precious girl's forever mom?</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">What did I do to deserve such a perfect, AMAZING gift?</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">It is such an honor to be an adoptive parent.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">There aren't adequate words to describe how awesome it feels to be CHOSEN.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is exactly how we feel and have felt. She explains that through infertility and the adoption process couples often ask them selves "Why us?" Of all people "Why us?" Then she goes on to explain how after you're chosen, and have your child in your arms, the question meaning changes completely. Very often we can't fathom to understand "Why us". I, too, have looked in the mirror holding Kaetheo thinking out of all people in this world what did I do to deserve his birth family to chose us. I can't say it better then she did without plagiarizing so just read it! ^^:) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He loves his jumparoo bouncer. He had so much fun in it we caught him almost falling asleep in it last night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He loves grabbing his feet! His personality is getting bigger and bigger each day. If we pretend to look away from him he will make a loud yell and when we look back he belly laughs. He sure knows how to get our attention <3 </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our must haves this month were his play mat, bouncer, and rattle OBall!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In November Kaetheo got to meet his great great Grandmother. (Jordan's great-grandma). We were fortunate enough to take a special five-generation picture that not many have the opportunity to take. Unfortunately, a couple months later Grandma Miller passed away. We feel lucky that he had the chance to meet her even if it was just once. Grandma Miller was a tremendous woman and she will be missed very much by her family.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468143745366458724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038426966690892019.post-76136430193141222342014-12-15T20:23:00.001-08:002014-12-16T14:22:35.339-08:00Parallel JourneysWhen a family decides to adopt for the first time I don't believe they understand the full journey they are about to encounter. For some, everything goes very smoothly. For others, not so lucky. But in the end, we all end up in the same place - with a child we love more then anything, and many more friends that they met through their journey.<br>
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We have met a lot of adoptive couples that we stay in touch with: Some from other blogs, some from our adoption education courses, and some we just met in passing. One couple in particular is very important to us: Amber and Dan. We met them through our agency, and we think our story of how we came to know each other so well is pretty amazing!<br>
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Back in June right after we had our failed adoption our adoption worker had called to ask us if we would be willing to give out our contact information to another couple that was encountering the same heartbreak. The baby girl they thought was going to be their daughter was also reclaimed from them. She was born one day after the baby boy that was reclaimed from us. Of course we immediately said yes, give them our number and email. We started to check our email, constantly hoping the family would reach out to us. Although we would wish the pain we went through on no one, it was a relief to know we weren't the only ones. All we wanted was for someone to talk to that understood the agony we were going through. Minutes later an email popped up and it was Amber. </div>
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We talked through email, and it was clear we all were feeling the same way: pain, hurt, anger, frustration, hopelessness. Soon after talking with each other, we both got the courage and re-entered our agency's profile book as waiting families, again. As we moved on and time passed, we kept in touch. We all had good days and bad days. We had been meaning to meet up for dinner a couple of times, but life was very busy for all of us. We became Facebook friends and started following each others' journeys. </div>
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Shortly after, they became matched with another amazing birthmother who was due in the beginning of October. We were happy and excited that one of us was able to move forward. We got updates about how things were going for them and the birthfamily they were matched with, which was refreshing because it gave us hope that it could happen for us again too. However we still had our bad days. I remember one day in particular my spirits were down, I reached out to Amber spilling my guts on how scared I was that we were going to wait forever, how would we be so lucky to be chosen twice in the same year? She picked me up when I needed it most and helped me through that rough day which I can't thank her enough for! Little did I know our happiness was coming, very soon!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is going to be one long blog post full of pictures & updates! We finally got the pictures off the camera from the hospital and when Kaetheo came home with us. Also just some cute pictures of Kaetheo's adorable smile and of course our amazing shower !!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kaetheo has amazed us with how much he has grown in just one month! He can reach for toys, stick his tongue out back at you, and of course he loves to talk to us! He has started sleeping through the night pretty regularly which is AMAZING. The first time was a little nerve racking, we didn't get much sleep because we woke up waiting for him to wake up! :) He is eating 7 oz about every 4 hours and he has his two month check up on Friday. I am not excited about shots :( He is still in 6 month sized clothes. He smiles at us all the time, I just love going to get him from his crib in the morning to see how excited he is to see us! He is the love of our lives! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The weekend of the 15th was amazing! My mom, sister and cousins threw us a shower and the turn out was way more than we expected! We had family and friends drive from over 3+hours away just to celebrate our little family of three. We had over 110 family /friends show up! The house and garage were both packed with love for Kaetheo. We tried very hard to talk to every single person, we wanted to make sure everyone knew how thankful we were for their support throughout our journey to find our sweet little guy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Almost everyone brought a book for Kaetheo. Inside they got to write a message to him so when we read him bedtime stories he will know who the book is from. He now has quite a collection of bedtime stories! We have already started reading them to him <3</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3uWvGhRb_zhPLF5_LV7YgtEl2wkTnAvOaCFMeDtxYBFkSWLa4g1RCre_hjo4EY0xM3KGQxBejOL3gXk5y86THTw781PqJ9-jCkUGc8TZ8atzlHiSYKQj3-2HSOrNdNBczbTw7GU-c98o/s1600/unnamed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3uWvGhRb_zhPLF5_LV7YgtEl2wkTnAvOaCFMeDtxYBFkSWLa4g1RCre_hjo4EY0xM3KGQxBejOL3gXk5y86THTw781PqJ9-jCkUGc8TZ8atzlHiSYKQj3-2HSOrNdNBczbTw7GU-c98o/s1600/unnamed.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a>The love we have for him is indescribable. It still feels surreal holding him in our arms. We have fallen in love with everything about him. His nose, his eyes, his smile, his cry, his little toes and little lips<3<br />
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He LOVES tummy time. If he is ever crying just put him on his tummy on our chest and he falls right to sleep. He loves to snuggle his little head against our chins <3<br />
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Jordan was even telling him how proud he was of his poopy diaper yesterday! Daddy was impressed haha!<br />
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He has the CUTEST sneeze. We have been trying so hard to catch it on video but we have failed so far! He is already a big eater. He eats 6-7 ounces every 3-4 hours! It took us a while to figure out how he slept best. With the help of Kaylah's mom and lots of trial and error we have it down perfectly!<br />
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Kaetheo has had many visitors already! A lot of people have been so anxious to meet him.<br />
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The first day home we had our entire family come over. A house full of 30-40 people welcomed him home . Since then they have come back for more cuddles.<br />
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Halloween was exciting for us this year. We were excited to dress Kaetheo up and take millions of pictures and of course we did. We even had two costumes for him. We used one earlier in the week and the mummy one on Halloween. We didn't go trick or treating because it would just be Jordan and I eating his candy at this point. We decided to have some quality time at home watching movies and answering the door for trick or treaters. Unfortunately we don't get many, but luckily our family brings our nieces and nephews by!<br />
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We get to talk to Kaetheo's birthmom and birthmom's mom a lot throughout the week! I thought we might be annoying them with all the pictures, but they told us there can never be too many. It's really nice to be able to share our excitement on his accomplishments with them!<br />
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<b>Please pray with us that this is forever<3 </b><br />
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2am feeding. I couldn't stand how cute he looked!</div>
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First shopping trip to Target<3</div>
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First Bath</div>
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Auntie caught a cute picture on snap chat!</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468143745366458724noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038426966690892019.post-73000599653568365872014-10-05T07:10:00.000-07:002014-10-05T07:10:15.865-07:00Dream come true! Two days ago we had no idea what was in store for our future. Little did we know we were about to get our dream call! A birth mother had chosen us, and not only were we chosen, he was already entering this world. We had our match meeting and we never left the hospital! Luckily she liked us:) We had a wonderful time getting to know her and her family and most of all Kaetheo! Please help us welcome Kaetheo Lloyd to our family. Most of all please pray that he will be our forever son<3<br />
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Born 10/2/2014<br />
8lbs 1 oz | 21 in<br />
We Met: 10/3/2014<br />
Welcomed home 10/4/2014<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468143745366458724noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038426966690892019.post-39130223513304914672014-08-13T16:47:00.001-07:002014-08-13T16:59:37.963-07:00best birthday week ever!!The weekend before my birthday Jordan and I finally had made the decision that I would not be returning to work. I became a full time stay-at-home wife and we were both <b><u>extremely</u> </b>excited about it.<br />
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Wednesday, August 6th--<b> My BIRTHDAY!!</b><br />
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The next day our families gave us these walking sticks. They were to symbolize their support for us through our journey to parenthood, however that opportunity comes to us. Both were signed by all of our family members who were at the lake :)<br />
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On July 4th we regained hope that our little one is out there somewhere<3<br />
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We are back in the LSS waiting family book anxiously awaiting to be found by the right birth family<3<br />
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It was the best day of our life followed by the worst day. On June 21st we went to the hospital at about 6 pm to meet who we thought would be our son. We were able to spend a couple of hours with him on the 21st, and on the 22nd we took him home, which was full of family waiting to meet their new little family member. The house was full of balloons, a cake, family, friends, gifts etc. June 22nd was a day full of emotions... We were on cloud nine, but still worried and hoping the birth family was doing okay. We refrained from posting too many pictures and updates to social media to be mindful of T&A. We cared about their feelings and thought seeing our happiness may hurt them.</div>
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We spent that night and the next day taking care or our new little one and sending as many pictures and updates as we could to T and A. Obviously sending these updates scared us, but we wanted to show them we weren't lying about how open we were going to be with them. We had a fear that updates would hurt T and A, but our counselor and T assured us updates would help. We aren't sure if the updates had anything to do with the change of heart.<br />
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The first night went well, everyone went home after they met him and we got our first real alone time. We set our alarm for feedings and rocked our little one to sleep.</div>
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The next day was just spent the three of us. Adjusting, learning , falling in love.. We finally posted an announcement due to many people requesting it. We thought not posting anything may make us seem ungrateful, but in reality we were just worried about T &A's feelings.. But we posted the announcement in hopes it would show our love for them and our new little addition. </div>
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The next night we did amazing. Honestly I didn't know I could love my husband any more then I already did. My love for him multiplied as I saw him take care of me and our child. Seeing him take charge and with no sleep stay up and rock his child was the most amazing feeling. He kept telling me to try to get some sleep, he will stay up with him. I tried to sleep, I couldn't. I just wanted to stay awake for every moment. He finally forced me to try and sleep.. I'd get up to check on them, and they were cuddling and rocking in the nursery. The most precious sight I had ever seen.<br />
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We tag teamed the rest of the night and we were both up and good for the day at about 9 am. We were getting the coffee ready and Jordan was rocking with Tayden cuddling when my phone rang. Jordan told me it said Stillwater, MN, so I knew it was our counselor. Praying it was just a call to check in I answered it. I walked toward the office and said hello. The tone of voice was obvious to me. The rest of the conversation was a blur. I just remember watching my husband rock and kiss our child as I was being told over the phone that he was going to be taken from us. He had no idea what was happening...<br />
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Obviously we were in shock; crying, grieving, holding him tight. I called my mom right away and she and the rest of the family all left work and showed up at our house within 20 minutes so we wouldn't have to go through it alone. Jordan's family left work right away too, however they had much farther to drive. They asked us to stall so they could say their goodbyes and be with us, so my mom went out to talk to the counselor and requested she wait for a half hour or so. We all said a prayer for him, us and his family.</div>
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It's the worst pain in the world handing over what you thought was your son. We had plans and dreams for our family moving forward, and to have him taken away is and was one of the worst thing that has ever happened to us. </div>
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We know he is loved where he is, so it is a different kind of loss..but it doesn't make it hurt any less.<br />
We know there is a reason for everything, and we are desperately searching for that reason. God has a plan..and we trying to regain hope that plan is parenthood.<br />
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Our families plan to throw us a shower after baby Gerads comes home! This is exciting because then everyone will get to meet him and see us as well! The showers will be like an open house for everyone that has been supporting us through this journey! We hope to see you there!!<br />
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2. Nursery Closet- Well it is finally finished!<br />
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Some days I think I am dreaming...How did we get this lucky? Only a couple of months ago I remember praying everyday that we would be found by someone amazing...and boy were our prayers answered! Every time we get in the car after seeing T or A I just think of how lucky we are that these two people are our future son's biological parents. They love him more then anything, and we would NEVER ever deprive our son of that love! It is so easy to picture them in our lives..coming to birthdays, lunch dates, fun days in the park. On top of seeing them in our lives it is so easy to see their families in our lives too! Our son is going to have so much love, and knowing that, we feel so blessed!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468143745366458724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038426966690892019.post-76832391279393244882014-04-13T19:12:00.001-07:002014-05-07T18:46:26.313-07:00Baby Gerads Nursery!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeAFg3j9RiCY_8HcX7CaIy5vexlFIwZX_76ymcDWEl9VauqNeLI_14smmMy238M3R0KxYR2-H0baRHGrwR6tgNYhUKJhv4Uwn34LV9gIzWvb8MFdS8WoUETspBAKn15EaGo8pDf0ze8Ak/s640/blogger-image-1952166057.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>Part of what's been keeping is busy! </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We made the whale canvas, and we are so happy how it turned out ! </div><br><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeAFg3j9RiCY_8HcX7CaIy5vexlFIwZX_76ymcDWEl9VauqNeLI_14smmMy238M3R0KxYR2-H0baRHGrwR6tgNYhUKJhv4Uwn34LV9gIzWvb8MFdS8WoUETspBAKn15EaGo8pDf0ze8Ak/s640/blogger-image-1952166057.jpg"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuB3SzZzXwPdEN6ZAeiGwjMUdL7PoAfLPzfbMk6K8GCpt56uvFJv_2Le597S6TgHC28E5oizx_Yzh7Nzbb9os8Xre1L5Fk486Lh8py9B8PBoaw2ZG_uH-8X3bSjJ0dDgu5itJIXgdwPqs/s640/blogger-image--1055130508.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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It is a book about an adoption story and we can't wait to read it to our little man! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGCx8hYktDpnSqCauVwwVl9EYRdSYH1w-FJT7MyvpKSBd93ElPxiUpnbVWCrWnc334Bn7Q8KqyvnmO5cQpSu5FiEcTyuUwvuqVl8cSWuhDLET5SfRCfAE94hUsjc4Ffqo8_fQOz0xtHqk/s640/blogger-image--1117073750.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGCx8hYktDpnSqCauVwwVl9EYRdSYH1w-FJT7MyvpKSBd93ElPxiUpnbVWCrWnc334Bn7Q8KqyvnmO5cQpSu5FiEcTyuUwvuqVl8cSWuhDLET5SfRCfAE94hUsjc4Ffqo8_fQOz0xtHqk/s640/blogger-image--1117073750.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468143745366458724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038426966690892019.post-32050708481321507562014-03-27T19:20:00.001-07:002014-03-28T09:02:14.158-07:00The Call...wait.. 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It wasn't what we had expected. We actually didn't get "the call"<br>
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Jordan had been contacted on LinkedIn about a job opportunity a month prior to us getting the call. He had been going through interviews and after three different offers from the company we finally rolled the dice and said let's take it. This was an extremely hard decision for us because he loved his current job more than anything, they had great adoption benefits for our family, flexibility and more. Jordan expressed this to his new employer and negotiated similar benefits, which was great for us! This new offer was just too hard to pass up for us, especially knowing our dreams for our future family. </div>
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The morning after we made that decision, Jordan had called me at work to tell me that he had called and accepted the position he had been offered and had also put in his two-week notice at his current company. It was exciting, yet nerve racking! I now had to make the call to tell our adoption worker that our employment had changed and we needed to update our home study, but that did not come up in our conversation at all!<br>
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Honestly, I don't remember the rest of the conversation. All I heard, was that someone wanted to meet us. Someone had chosen our profile from the book, liked us and wanted to meet us in person! I felt like I was in a dream! I proceeded to accept the meeting request over the phone, and we scheduled it for the following Thursday. One full week later.<br>
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I was on cloud nine. I remember skipping over to my coworkers and telling them all excitedly..and then realizing.. Oh shoot..I should probably call Jordan and tell him! Haha! My brain went so crazy that I forgot to call my husband that definitely deserved to hear the news first! AHH!<br>
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He called immediately and I told him that I had called our adoption worker and explained to him what she said! He was excited, I was excited...It was hard to stay focused at work!<br>
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Stay tuned to hear about the week leading up to the meeting, and the meeting where we met two amazing people. </div>
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As any holiday approaches, we dream of what it will be like with a little one..<br />
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We dream of the small things we want to be doing with our son or daughter. We have been dreaming of the heart shaped cookies we would bake, the Valentines we'd make, the outfits we would dress our little one in, and much more. Thinking of all these different things we wish we were doing is heavy on our heart, but we do keep reminding ourselves that without this journey, we may not have appreciated the little things we are going to appreciate when we have our son or daughter. We will never take one moment for granted. We pray every night for the chance to become parents and we look forward to every cry and every sleepless night we have in our future! </div>
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We wanted to express how much we already love our future child and our future child's birth family. These are people we haven't met, but we think about every day and can not wait to meet! </div>
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I was sitting on the couch thinking about how we could express our love for these special people we have never met..and I am not sure how it came to me, but I thought about how we are searching for someone we already love. That is where we came up with a heart with a piece of it missing. I anxiously called my sister's friend who is a photographer (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/BeeGee-Photography/129364140462171" target="_blank">BeeGee Photography</a>) and asked her if she could do a photo shoot the next day! She said yes ..so I ran to the store to buy some paint and drew the heart on some cardboard. Jordan cut it out and painted it and voila!- we had the perfect symbol to represent how we were feeling. </div>
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It was too cold out for our pup, so he only got to be in some of the pictures. He mostly stayed in the warm car! As we were taking these photos, an elderly couple walked by hand-in-hand and saw our sign that read "We can't wait to adopt!" They glanced at it and then immediately turned around to tell us how their three kids were adopted and now they have grandchildren. They were so proud and I immediately pictured that being us in the future. Oh, how we hope that is us one day! </div>
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Waiting is by far the hardest part of the entire process so far. Last year consisted of us being so busy getting things together it just flew by! Now we have had way more time to ourselves. The Holidays kept us busy - we had a full two weeks off and we spent every waking moment with our families.<br />
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Our profile went in the waiting family book on November 17th along with that our family was posted on Lutheran Social Service's website .It has all the same content - just another form of exposure to help us find the right person:)<br />
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Here it is if you want to see it : <a href="http://www.lssmn.org/MS-Adoption/content3col.aspx?pageid=3047&id=8531" target="_blank">LSS Website</a><br />
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In addition to being placed on the website we were their <b>Facebook Family of the Week</b> ! We had sooo many family members, friends and even strangers helping us "share" their post! Honestly the wait is hard, but seeing all the support we have from everyone really helps us get through it. So THANK YOU to everyone for everything you have done for us.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Hi! We're Jordan and Kaylah Gerads from Otsego, MN. We met over eleven years ago at a campground in Crosslake, Minnesota, when we were barely teenagers and have been married now for two years. We and our little</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> teacup yorkie, Padraig, are incredibly excited to grow our family through adoption! We love to play board and card games, attend sporting events, and go on annual week-long camping trips with our family. To learn more about us, please visit our Facebook page at<a href="http://www.facebook.com/jordanandkaylahadopt" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">www.facebook.com/jordanandkaylahadopt</a>. Feel free to email us at jordanandkaylahadopt@gmail.com or contact our adoption worker, Dianne Delaney at 320-251-7700 or Dianne.Delaney@lssmn.org. "</span><br />
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Also our facebook page reached over 500 likes with the help of Kaylah's sister. She noticed we were only 13 away and not only did she help us get 13 people to follow our story she got 53!! If you have facebook and haven't "liked" our page yet and want to please do! <a href="http://facebook.com/jordanandkaylahadopt" target="_blank">facebook.com/jordanandkaylahadopt</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We can not wait until we get to share our lives with our son or daughter. This Christmas we kept imagining what life will be like once we are a family of three. We hung a stocking to symbolize the love we already have for a child we have not met. </span></div>
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Our pup is also anxiously awaiting a human brother or sister. However he does love testing everything out to be sure it's safe. We feel so bad that we didn't write more about him in our profile- he is so spoiled and he gets to go anywhere and everywhere with us..minus the grocery store and work:)<br />
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building with Leggos!</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today officially marks one year since we started our journey of adoption. This year was all paperwork and waiting lists. We go in to year two with such high hopes that someone will fall in love with us. The reality is--we are already in love with a child that may or may not exist yet. Our year journey recap --in one post.</span></span><br />
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<b>November 19th -</b> handed in registration form. The waiting list was expected to be about 4-6 months. We had to wait 4-6 months to find out if we would be approved to even hand in an application. (We started at #31 on the list)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>February 24th</b>– Our first blog post- announcing that we were going to (if accepted) grow our family through adoption.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>April 1st</b> –We were accepted to apply for the Domestic Infant Adoption program!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>April 12th</b>- Attended the two day required education courses</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>June 13th-</b> Home Visit- Second part of the home study- completed</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>June 18th</b>- Officially approved to welcome a child into our home!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>June 18th-</b> We were officially put on the waiting list for the “waiting family book” (We started at #11) They estimated about a 4 month waiting list. They informed us we wouldn't be notified again until we were number 5 on the waiting list. We expected to not hear anything until October.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>August 14th- </b>We got notification we were number 5 on the waiting list! Wowza –less than a month and we dropped to number 5.. That is a good sign. Time to get our profile ready!! They were now going to notify us every time we dropped on the list. We were waiting to hear that we were number 4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>September 8th</b>- we received the written home study in the mail. (It takes them a while to write it)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>September 12th-</b> #2! We were number two on the waiting list!? What happened to 4th or 3rd? Not complaining</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>September 26th –</b> Notification we were number 1! We were next to be put in the book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>September 26th –</b>We were live on Parentprofiles.com (Completely separate from the waiting family book)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>October 10th- </b>We were invited into the family profile book aka- waiting family book!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>November 9th-</b> Our profile was completed and in the mail</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>November 12th- </b>Our agency received our profile in the mail</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>November 17th 2013-</b>Our profile was officially placed in the waiting family book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After WEEKS of hard work and stress trying to get everything to be EXACTLY how we wanted it- it is finally here:) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We would like to thank everyone that helped us by proof reading, giving us insight, and different perspectives!!! Here are some (not all) of the people that helped: Pam Spar, Greg Spar, Jessica Kamps, Katie Meltzer, Jennifer Grotte, and our adoption counselor Dianne Delaney.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To those of you that follow our blog and not our facebook page (<a href="http://facebook.com/jordanandkaylahadopt">facebook.com/jordanandkaylahadopt</a>) I forgot to mention that a couple weeks ago we did officially get our invitation into the family profile book. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am printing and mailing our six copies tomorrow and we officially get to start waiting ...very patiently for someone spectacular to find us. </span></div>
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