Today is special!

A week ago today was the second day of getting to spend time with our little man ! We first had breakfast at the guest house, it was pancakes. They were rolled up and the syrup was all on the inside! Yummy, and of course we had coffee!! I love COFFEE! Then we went to the foster care center to see Axum! He was feeling better today, not to sure of us yet but not as scared! He is a really good sleeper! I think he would get so nervous  that he would just fall right asleep in our arms! One of God's blessings to a Momma is having a sleeping baby on her chest ! I was very blessed getting to sit and rub his back while and I prayed and told him that we are his mommy and daddy forever! And just like that our first two hours of quality time was over!! BOO!!!!

Shortly after lunch we had a meeting with Mr. Alemu our attorney. So our driver took us over to his office. It was just a brief meeting to go over the things that we could expect for court the next day! We sat in his office and, he told us that the judge would ask us a few questions and it was really no big deal. It felt like it was going to be a big deal! I asked him if we would be able to look at Axum's file, a stack of paper work in a folder on his desk. He said of course and handed it to us! Half of it was in Amharic and the other half in English. We found out what orphanage he came from which I was very happy to know. On our next trip we might be able to go see it and maybe find out more about our little man! We also found out that someone had given him a birthday! We had heard that before and didn't think anything of it, a cause it didn't feel right! Some random stranger sitting at a desk who just has to put a date  down so that his file could be complete. They really don't keep track of birthdays in Ethiopia so for him to not have a true or "real" birthday was "normal". Those are two words I really don't like. Any who, We felt different about this date , something seemed to fit! 11-14-11  still two months earlier than we had thought but it is the same month as Josh's birthday!! Payton, Raegan, and myself all the share the Birthday month of August! So it seemed like 11-14-11 was meant to be! Josh and Axum get to share a birthday month! And guess what????? That's TODAY!!  Our baby boy turns 1 TODAY!! My heart hurts knowing that we are missing celebrating it with him, but I know that we can celebrate when he gets home and we will not miss another one! Amen!!!! God is Good! He has two gifts waiting for him to open when he gets home! I can't wait to see him open them! I can't wait for him to be sitting in our living room crawling or walking and playing ! I can't wait to kiss him when ever I want!!

Soon little man, soon!!