One Year Ago...........

One year ago today I forgot to take the phone into the bathroom with me while I took a shower (while waiting for a certain phone call, the phone went EVERYWHERE with me!). I got out of the shower to find a message from our social worker at Bethany on my answering machine and on my cell phone. Now, we were expecting the phone call any day telling us that Holt, the agency in South Korea, had matched all of the babies born in 2006 and that there would be no new referrals for several months due to changes in the law in Korea. Our social worker was stone cold serious in the message asking me to call her, so I was sure that we would be waiting some more - I really had given up.

I should note here that for SOME reason, I have no idea why at this point, Joel had not gone into work early and was still in bed when I called our social worker back at a little after 8:30 am. I honestly don't even remember what exactly she said, just that we had a healthy baby boy. I remember running up the stairs while asking her details and literally HITTING my poor husband to get him to wake up (he does not wake up easily). He finally came to and got the gist of the conversation from my tears and babbling :lol:

We were at our sw's office at 3:00 later that day to see this adorable face for the first time....





I can't believe it has been a year already! It seems like he has been with us forever, yet I VIVIDLY remember how hard it was waiting for that phone call.