Monday, October 1, 2007

The day finally came...

Today, October 1, 2007 around 10:00 am, we finally met our son.

He was so big!!! So much bigger than the last picture we had seen of him! And check out the feet on this kid—they’re huge! I think he’s going to pretty tall. All the sweet people at the orphanage told us that he’s already really long for his age. We brought shoes for him, but we’re absolutely certain that they’ll never fit.

It was definitely a mixture of emotions getting to see him—we were so excited, and scared at the same time. He, understandably, was also a little scared. And it probably didn’t help for him or us that there were five other people in the room all taking pictures and observing. So while we had an unexpected audience for our first meeting, it was still so sweet to finally get to hold him in our arms. He was so soft, and we loved his hair!

The orphanage wanted to gradually transition him from their care to ours, so it was really difficult, but after meeting him today we actually had to leave him. We were scheduled to get an hour with him, and ended up getting two and a half, so we’re grateful. We’ll go back tomorrow, and the next day, and hopefully we’ll be able to bring him back with us on Thursday (we’d appreciate your prayers for that!).

So the time was sweet. He’s an active little guy, and while he was a little nervous around us at first, he seemed to grow more comfortable with us as the time passed. It was so hard leaving him, but soon we won’t have to do that anymore.

Here’s just a bunch of photos from our short time with him—we’ll write more soon.







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