Sleepy Mommy

Sleepy Mommy

Mommy needs to get her tush in gear....for some reason, i need a nap. And it is only 10 am. You, however, are bouncing happily right now, but i'm sure that you'll be ready for a nap shortly. We had a very fun play day yesterday....you crawled up the hallway, you crawled down the hallway, you pulled up on the wall, the bed, the cabinet. I put you on our bed and you had a blast crawling on all of the pillows. You are getting so very strong! It's cute to watch you gunt as you pull up....you are so determined! A good life trait to have, btw....

Yesterday i was reading the yahoo Guatemalan boards and found a timeline that was like our in one way but so different than ours in another. Timelines are very important to folks on the yahoo boards...that is how you can gear where you are in the adoption process. This time line that i saw started the day after ours; the birth date of the little one was the day after your birth date and the referral date was the day after ours. We have been home since July 13....and this family is just now getting ready to go on their pickup trip. It is at times like this, i realize how very, very lucky your Daddy and i were. Not all adoptions run as smoothly as ours did. In fact, ours was like a dream come true. We accepted you on March 3, 2007 and you were home with us in Nashville on July 13, 2007. Needless to say, we were very envied at our pickup trip! I remember often just stare at the posted timelines, dreaming of ours and when you would come home. I'm not sure if i've told you this story yet, but here it is:

Your Daddy recived a call from EAC on March 2 about a referral of a little girl. It seems that Mommy had gone to the garden show in Nashville and didn't bring her phone...on purpose. I was so very tired of waiting for the phone to ring, to hear from our agency about a referral that i decided i needed a "day" off. I had been computer watching for some news, ANY news and i knew that i had to stop. So, i went to Nashville and the garden show! Many hours later...i returned home to find 4 messages on our home machine and 7 messages on my cell phone. All of those messages had to do with YOU! Let's just say that Daddy wasn't too happy that i decided to leave my cell phone at home!

EAC had called to let us know that they were sending out a package to us that we would recieve the next day with photos, a video and medical information on a baby girl born on Febuary 16. We were very surprised that you were so young in age as we had basically told our agency that we would accept the first child that was available; that the child did not have to be a newborn. We expected maybe a year old child....but i don't think that you Daddy and i expected a newborn! We were to take an International Adoption Class at Vanderbilt the next day (which was a Saturday) and lucky for us, Russ, who is your Daddy's friend was coming to visit and would be able to sign for the referral package. We did attend that class....and then rushed home to look at our package!

We took the referral package to our favorite place to eat: Chef's. We go there every Friday night as it's our "date" night. (We do that even now, lol, but you now are a part of our "date" nights!) We had our lunch as the referral package sat on the table close by....so scared to open it, so excited to rip it open and see you. I opened the package....and there you were. Seeing you for the first time took my breath away as i studied every part of you. You were so tiny and cute! Delicate features, very fair skin and a mop of dark black hair....i knew instantly you were ours. We studied all the photos that were in the package, running our fingers over you as if trying to get to know you. As your Daddy and i huddled together, i think that we both realized that our lives would never be the same. Our lives would be richer, fuller and happier than we could ever imagine.....all because of a little girl who was named Yaneth.