That's what I call it...... 1. Paper pregnant - We are still eagerly anticipating our adoption from Ethiopia! 2. We are very excited to say that I am 9 weeks pregnant! We feel very blessed to be sharing this news! Moses is begging me to have a boy, although I have tried to explain to him that its already been decided and I am not the one who decides! Grace was so excited that she wore her "Big Sister" shirt for 3 days and even slept in it! I finally had to insist on washing it.
We do not anticipate this to change anything with the adoption. There are two things the adoption agency considers when a client becomes pregnant. 1. That there be a minimum of 6 months between birth of child and accepting a referral. We are estimated to receive our referral around April 2015 and bio baby will be 6 mo old by then so we are clear on this one. 2. They prefer all the children in the home to be at least 6 mo apart in age so they would most likely refer us a child who is 12-24 months old. After we receive our referral it will still be 6 months before we take the 1st of our two trips to Ethiopia so bio baby will be at least 1 year old by then. In the end, we trust Gods timing with everything!
There has been some delays with adoptions in Ethiopia in the past 6 months but Ethiopia is not closed. Some new policies and procedures were implemented in Ethiopia this past November that have slowed things down but have also made the adoptions more "legit" so to speak. These new procedures have also increased the wait time between the 1st and 2nd trips we will take to Ethiopia upon receiving our referral. The increased wait times can seem discouraging to us at times but we do not lose hope because we know that God asked us to do this and His plan will succeed in His timing. Whoever and wherever our child is we continue to pray for him/her daily and believe God will bring him/her into our home soon!
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