OH HAPPY DAY!!!

Proverbs 25:25 "As cold water to a weary soul, So is good news from a far country."

Psalm 144:15b "Happy are the people whose God is the Lord."

Oh Praise the Lord! He has heaped His blessings on us and our sadness has turned to rejoicing! Yesterday the Lord blessed us with 2 sons. Yes, we got it- we finally got our referral for 2 precious boys ages 4 months and 15 months. They are not biological siblings, but as precious as can be. We are overjoyed and humbled at the Lord's gift to us.

Here are some interesting and cool facts concerning these boys and how they were "set apart" for our family. The baby, who I think we will call Jeremiah, was born in March on my niece's b-day. Janae and Julia have b-days at the end of March, so we will now have 3 b-days within 10 days of each other (4 if you count my niece too). The older boy, who I think we will call Josiah, is 11 months older than Jeremiah and 14 months younger than Joanna who is currently our youngest. Then Jeremiah and our baby in my womb will be about 10 months apart. I can not believe the spacing. We were prepared that we might get 2 close in age or basically have 2 little babies once this baby was born or 2 - 2 year olds or 2 -4 year olds, but it is almost a natural spacing as if they fall right in place with the ages of our other children. Jeremiah, the baby is about 1 month older than the baby that I miscarried would have been. I am thrilled that the boys are so close in age because they will be little buddies like Joanna and Jacklyn.

We will likely have to wait 4 more months before we can go pick them up because of court closures for rainy season. We hope to travel in November. My biggest concern is that I would be allowed (by my doctor, airlines? and husband :)) to travel to Ethiopia in my last trimester. After waiting and working on this for over 1 year, I can not imagine missing this. To me it would be like missing the birth of my babies.

PS - sorry I can not post pictures until we pass through court in October, but here is a sneak peak. I can not wait to get my hands on them!