We received an update on Tarike! She is sitting well, seems to love toys, is creeping on her belly, and then some. I cannot wait to see and hold her!! An amazing thing happened to me for the second time this morning. Those of you reading this blog that are adopting may have experienced this. When you are pregnant, from the time that you learn that you are going to have a baby, you are carrying your child. In adoption, when you learn of your child and who he/she is, you are usually still months away from holding him or her. It may sound unusual and hard to believe but, while thinking of our baby, my arms quite litterally ached to hold her! It was a sensation similar to "restless leg syndrome" if you have ever experienced that on a long car ride, etc. This has now happened twice and makes it even harder to wait to hold our daughter. She is such a part of our family already and we get to meet her, finally, in 6 days!!
We are also looking forward to meeting the wonderful families that will be traveling with us to bring home their children. I have had an opportunity to learn a little about a few of the couples and am so excited to meet them in person! For example, we will be able to fly with a family from Oregon the entire way to Ethiopia - sharing excitement, fears, and feelings about our life-changing adventure! Also, the couple that we will be sharing a guest-house with in Ethiopia (bed bugs and all!) appear to have SO much in common with us I just know we will get along great. It is great to know that we will have others to share in this entire process and, hopefully, become great friends!! I thank God for hand-picking our daughter and the people with whom we will be sharing this adventure, both on our trip and after we return home to enjoy our forever family!!
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