Houston, We Have A Referral!

Yes, you heard it right, we got a referral. Last Monday I was driving home from work and got a call. I didn't recognize the number but I was thinking it seemed familiar and just maybe??? It was someone from our agency that we were working with giving me a heads up that we got a referral. She was going to send me an email with the info, but wanted to call first.

I stopped at the front of our road to talk with her (missing a call from Heather) about the referral for a 12 month old boy. As soon as I got home I checked my email to get the information, mainly medical and growth information along with a picture. I told Heather when she got home and she was like 'What?'. She was shocked and I then showed her the information. We can't post the picture or any information until the adoption is finished, but he is cute and the medical information came out ok. I'll call him Baby Boy.

We sent the information to a doctor familiar with international adoption, including Russia, and he came back with pretty much nothing to worry about. We then told our agency on Friday that we accepted the invitation to travel. Wow!

Going from waiting and not knowing when something would happen to getting a referral and needing to travel in the near future is a big change. The agency is going to have their staff in Russia get travel dates for us, but it shouldn't take too long to get them. The first trip is to officially meet Baby Boy and accept the referral. We will send back pictures and firsthand sort of information to the doctor so he can give sort of a final ok on everything. This first trip is only 1 week but it will probably seem like forever. The worst part is when we have to leave and wait possibly 2 months until the second trip.

We are hopefully going to be able to bring a laptop to update the blog and post pictures of things. Any pictures we take of Baby Boy that we can't post now we will store up and post them all after it is finished (cross your fingers).