He was born on Oct. 10th- just 5 short days after Michael and I started praying about the adoption. The mother went into labor (8 weeks early), the day after Michael and I told "God that we were open to it," and she was in active labor for 4days!!!! We think the Lord must have been waiting on Michael and I, because Joshua was finally born 2 short hours after we said "YES" to God! That poor mom- in hard labor waiting on us...:( We just really wanted to make sure this was the Lord, but once we got our 'GO' we did feel really badly making "her wait" :)
This has truly been the CRAZIEST past 2 weeks & 2 days of our lives as a family! We had no idea God would be giving us a son and Gavyn a brother this year!!! He truly is an Awesome God, who loves to give us the desires of our heart in His timing :) Praise Him!!
Well things just started falling into place when Michael and I told God that we would do this if He provided the open doors. Michael and I didn't want to try and make things happen our way, we just wanted The Father to keep doing it His way!! It was rough at times, but we just leaned on each other for comfort and support, and as a Team we leaned on Jesus together!!! As we would get closer and closer to resting in Him and finding Peace we began to develop such a Deep Love for this baby that was just incredible!!! I never knew you could love an adopted child as much as your blood, but YOU CAN!!! WE DO!!!! In fact, it was really sweet when Joshua went into an emergency surgery on Wed. night; Michael got really emotional and said that he felt as though it was like watching Gavyn go through this. Michael had such an instant connection with this baby from the day he said, "Yes" to God!! This has brought a greater dimension and understand to Christs' love for us the Gentiles!!! We are His adopted children and yet He still Loves us So Much!!!! WOW!! It is so much more deeper now to me since I have gone threw this- I am overwhelmed by how much our Daddy loves us because He chose to, and not because He had too!!!! Thank You Jesus!
Here are our first pictures with him :)
"Blowing Bubbles!!"
Look at all this hair!!! Can you imagine if he would have been carried full term!!! WOW!!!
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