Hey, just wanted to let you know that we got the call yesterday that Levi (and Isaac's) 2nd DNA has been completed and the results sent out headed back to Guatemala by Fedex. They are scheduled to arrive by 6pm today. After the US Embassy gets it logged back in they will issue our appt for pick up. We're finally almost done! This will be the last step of this long difficult process. Steve and I are just so ready to go get Levi and bring him home. My mom and dad are still planning to go with us for pickup (if we can swing 4 plane tickets now, for some reason they shot up yesterday to double what we were looking at). They just want to be able to have the experience of seeing Guatemala and knowing about where he's from. Of course, they can't wait so, if that get them to see him sooner they are all about that part too.
Issac and Levi will be most likely leaving the foster mom at the same time unless for some reason our appt times get seperated at the Embassy. But, even so they should be back to back if nothing else. We've just prayed that if it's God's will for us to leave together with them , then let it be. Nancy and I are about to go crazy with this waiting part. Knowing they have been legally ours for a few weeks makes it a little harder with the waiting! We've both been "nesting" (so they say that is what it is we're doing) and cleaning their rooms, washing their clothes, and just finishing those last minute thigs before we don't have the time to spare for such. Eric got to hear Isaac saying dada on the phone last week so, he is just beside himself too (and of course rubbing it in a little to Nancy haha). Levi is getting in the walker better now and going backwards only so far... too funny! Will keep you all posted on when we're traveling. Until then, keep us in your prayers and keep the foster mom in mind too. She is sad but, knows this has to be. She says she is so thankful to know they are both going to keep in touch and be so close and that we love them so much. She is thankful they will have opportunities in life through this adoption. Will keep you posted. Blessings- Tracy (aka Levi's mommy)
1 Samuel 1:27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him
Levi
Our Adoption Story
Levi was born on April 21, 2007 in Chinautla, Guatemala, a small town known for pottery. He weighed 6.7 pounds and was 19.7 inches long. He was in private foster care in Guatemala City where he lived for 10 1/2 months with his foster mom, her son and daughter and Isaac, his foster brother. Throughout our difficult adoption journey, Isaac's mom, Nancy and I became very good friends. God placed our boys together and had the perfect plan in place long before we ever realized it. When I was undecided on an adoption agency, I joined an online forum where Nancy provided me with information about her agency and recommended them to us. We decided to sign with the same agency and I emailed Nancy back to let her know. Over a few months we emailed back and forth to learn we were both from TN and lived only 30 minutes apart... we thought wow, it's a small world. Little did we know a few months later we'd both get referrals, earlier than we expected, of 2 beautiful Guatemalan angels. When they turned 2 months old our agency called and decided it was time to tell us that they were in the same foster home together and had been since they were 1 day old. We were amazed they were together. Even more so, God amazed us once again when we learned shortly after that they were born on the same day and were from the same town... no longer a coincidence that was for sure. We were being told by the foster mom how attached they were and acted like brothers. But, Nancy and I got the chance in January '08 to go to visit them and see it for ourselves. It was an amazing time of bonding with our boys that we will never forget. After that trip it seemed when one of us would reach a roadblock in the crazy process of international adoption the other would be delayed with something else. We stayed right together until the very day we picked them both up. We had our US Embassy appts the same day and we flew home through Atlanta on the same flight on March 11, 2008 when they both entered the US as citizens! It was an awesome time for us in the Atlanta Airport when we rec'd the congrats they were official! We've made friends for life with Nancy, Eric, and with Isaac's extended families. We look forward to many years of watching them both grow up so close together. Over the past year, as we went through battle after battle to bring our boys home, Nancy and I both would never think of one without the other in our endless prayers to keep them safe, happy and healthy until they could be home with their forever families. We're finally parents and it's what we've both waited for, for so many years.. our families are finally complete!!!
Thursday, February 14, 2008
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YIPPEE!! Come on PINK!!!!
Gail
I'm so excited for both you and Nancy! The best part of this journey is about to start for both of your families: being a forever famil!
COME ON PINK, PINK, PINK! :)
Or is it Orange? ;)
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