my stork arrived

It is official!

I have a son!

Wow...can't believe I actually typed those words...

Let me start from the beginning.

Late on Thursday, September 3rd we found out that J wanted to do a webcam interview with us on Friday morning. Our agency just started using webcam technology for interviews and we were looking forward to this -- just seems more personal. We chatted for over an hour and during that time she picked us to parent her child! And the baby was due soon!

On Monday, September 7th around 1:00pm we got a call from our agency to let us know that J was in labor and we should probably start packing! I was literally shaking and wandering around the house, room from room wondering what I should do! I called Don at work and he raced home. We must have set some sort of record for packing and getting things organized because 2 1/2 hours later we left for the airport. We caught the last flight out to our destination. However our layover was quite long and we only arrived at midnight.

While waiting for our connecting flight we received an email from our agency to let us know that a baby boy was born at 6:59pm and both him and his mom were doing really well. Yay! A healthy baby! Although we wish we could have made it for the birth a load was lifted from my shoulders just knowing that he had arrived safely. We were informed that his mom wanted us to wait until 11:00am the next day to come visit because she really needed to get some sleep.

That was a long morning!

I will post more about the meeting, the naming, leaving the hospital, and everything in between. But right now I need to go snuggle with my son!