TWINS!!

Oh man! There is so much to update you on! As you know, we got chosen by a birth mom who is having twins sometime in May. Here's how it all went down.

On Monday, March 23rd, I signed up for a meeting at our adoption agency that is for people who are open to adopting a child of any race. I had to put my number on there in case there were any changes. The next day my phone rang with an Indianapolis number. It wasn't our agency's number but of course I answered-if you are in any type of adoption process you ALWAYS answer your phone, no matter what the number is. When I answered it was our contact from our agency. I didn't think much about it because I figured it was just something about the meeting I had signed us up for. We caught up for a minute or two and then she said "I'm going through your paperwork and can't find if you are open to twins or not." There had been a question mark next to that in our home study, and although I corrected it on there to put that we are, I still thought she was just calling to update our paperwork. So I said "Oh yeah! We are!" Little did I know!

She proceeded to tell me that she had a birth mother looking at our book who was pregnant with twins. I still didn't think too much about it because when we adopted Kaleigh we had 9 other people look at our book and weren't chosen. So I was thinking that she was probably looking at 10 people's books and our agency was trying to figure out who was open to twins.

She proceeded to tell me a lot of information about the birth mom. To be honest I wasn't 100% paying attention because I was trying to not get my hopes up and thinking we probably wouldn't get picked. When she got done I asked her "so how many books is she looking at?" I clearly was not expecting her response of "oh no, she chose you if you are open to twins." That is when I started freaking out. Bless her heart I was just babbling on and on saying "whoa, oh wow, oh, oh ok, oh my goodness...." and on and on. She told me she needed to know by 5 o'clock the next day if we accepted the match.

So if you remember with Kaleigh, I wanted a super fun picture of Heath and me when we found out. Well guess what? Heath was out of town-WHAT? Yep, out.of.town. So I call, no answer. Call, no answer. Call, no answer. Text, no response. Call and finally get him. This is how our conversation went:

Me: Are you sitting down?
H: yeah, what's up?
Me: we got matched
H: YES!
Me: It's twins
H: Oh wow!
H: Let me guess, it's girls (Heath is scared to death of having 3 girls!!) HAHA!

So, you obviously know that we said yes to the match! The first few days I oscillated between wanting to throw up and wanting to hyperventilate-ha! We are so excited, but it is also very overwhelming to go from 1 child to 3 and to think about having 2 the same age. Now that we have gotten used to the idea, the nursery mostly set up and been able to borrow almost everything we need, we feel like we are just able to wait in eager expectation for them.

We were able to meet the boys birth mother a couple of weeks ago and she is precious. She loves these boys so much and said she just can't give them the life she wants for them. We are so thankful for her and her decision to choose life for these boys and the loving, selfless, courageous, hard decision she made to give them up for adoption.

The boys are due at the end of May. To be honest, we are a little confused about the exact due date which I know sounds stupid, but they are going to take them early so we don't know if the date we have is the day they are due or the day they are going to take them. Either way, it doesn't really matter. Sometime in May they will be here.

They are identical twin boys-hopefully we can tell them apart!! We have a few tricks we have heard of to keep it straight! As for names, we have one for sure that we are going to use and are still deciding on the second name. We will announce as soon as we know for sure. As with any adoption, there is a chance she will change her mind. She has 48 hours to change her mind. After meeting her, we don't think she will, but we have to be prepared for that. If that happens, we know the Lord will see us through it.

We thank God for entrusting us with these two boys, and that He saw fit for us to get not just one baby but two. It is from Him that we have received this blessing. We love this beautiful journey He has us one!!