Still Waiting:)

As the birthmother is about to hit her 41st week of this seemingly long pregnancy to her not me. Because for me it is a 3-4 wks pregnancy. Bam!!! Here is a baby. This is what I actually prayed for. I really didn't want a long dragged out 9 month adoption of will she or won't she. I like this, ok here you go in a month. But we are still waiting. The hospital she goes to ANMC won't induce until 42 weeks. Tomorrow she has an appointment if I remember her correctly & she hopes, as well I as hope she has progressed more. I told her to ask them to strip her membranes. I did warn her & told her it is painful, but she said she would & if they give her a weird look of, how do you know this. She says she will tell them her baby mama told me. I laughed. I having a feeling she will be induced. So one more week of waiting & preparing. Well tring to prepare as best as possible. One thing I am doing is making a sheep mobile. My friend Jayci told me about them & we planned a craft night & attempted to make them. Mine are special sheep. I am just happy that Aiden won't have great vision & can't see all my mistakes. But here are the pictures for now. I still need to add the ears, per Brad, bc he said it will look better & hang them on the mobile part. I am including the picture that it is suppose to look like as well. Can't wait to hang it above the crib. Oh, by the way, you can order one on Esty for like $80 or make them yourself for like oh, about $5.

I must be nesting!!!

I have to be. I am cleaning like a mad women. I shampooed that living room carpets & the babies room. I even vacuumed the stair. Which I HATE doing. I have washed all the baby stuff I do have, which isn't much & that includes bottles. We haven't bought too much, because of the fear that she will change her mind. I really don't want to look at babies stuff to just have a constant reminder that another adoption fell through. So for now, we have what we need to get by for about 3 days. The baby furniture is all painted. It was hand me downs & I wasn't to fond of the color of wood, so why not paint. It was cheaper then buying a whole new set. By the way, Berh primer & painter in one, is the best. TOTALLY doesn't smell like any other paint. If fact, it hardly smells at all. The mattress is cleaned & I put the sheet on it & was like, yippee:) The theme is, 'Oh, the Place You'll Go'. It is from Dr. Seuss & I love it. I want to instill in this little boy that the world is his & he can do so much. The bedding, if it happens, is Mosaic Transportation. It is cars, trains & airplanes made out of Mosaic tiles. It is so cute. We are waiting patiently. She is due this week.
Oh, did I ever tell you that the birthmother is amazing. She is the nicest person in the world, with quit a spunky/sassy sense of humor. We have been texting & getting to know her. It has been fun & entertaining at the textes that have taken place. One of them has been on the name. From the last post, we thought we settled on Crayton James Thomas. However every time I would write it, it would remind me of crayola crayons. Crazy, I know. Well the birthmother would always ask if we had thought about other names. I told her my concern about the whole crayola things & she wrote back, HAHAHAHA I call him the crayola baby. Well that was that & I got the answer about the name. Now back to the drawing board. I mentioned Eli & Peyton, I know they are the Manning Brothers, but I do like the names. Brad said NO! real quick. Then I mentioned the name Aiden. She wrote back & said she liked it. She said how about Merritt for a middle name. So I texted back Aiden Merritt Thomas. She replied she loved it. You are wondering where Brad was in all this. Sitting next to me & nodding his head. He says it is just a name. Whatever. But she said to not be surprised if she puts it on his birth card. So for now it is Aiden Merritt Thomas, but he could come out looking like a George. LOL:):):)
Other big things going on in our life. Boise Fire Department. Brad is coming home tonight from Idaho. He went down thinking the weather would be nice. Boy were we both wrong. It snowed. And Alaska had amazing weather. Why are we thinking of going to Idaho. Ok. The test was on Saturday & he says it was very similar to the test that he took for Anchorage a few years back, just a different order of the questions. Also about 400 people applied, compared to Anchorage 900 applications. We will know by June 15th if he passed the test or not. He says he feels good about it, but when I say that, I fail. Besides taking the test, he was able to see if parents & brother. The best was, his parent drove him to take the test. So cute & amazing. Thank you Larry & Laurie for being such a great help & support. I can't wait to see him.
When it rains it pours in our home. I am very thankful for this time in my life. I know I need to have continued faith that everything will work out. I will not lie, I do hold back on my excitement, but to tell you the truth, I am so EXCITED!!! I can't wait to be a mom. Brad is going to be a great dad & Lucy & Abigail will be great big/little sisters. Our house is getting in orders for a wonderful chaos to come in. Oh & Aiden means little fire. The birthmom says hopefully not his temper. YIKES! But I replied, Brad is a firefighter & he can be Brad's little fire. I know, I know I am pathetic. Till the next post. And hopefully the announcement of our new addition to the family. Thank you for all your prayers, love & support. A special thanks to the birthmother & her courage to do this at such a young age. She is in our prayers & will always be. We can't thank her enough for this. She will always be apart of our family because of him & I so can't wait to see what kind of person she ends up. She will do great things.

What do I say...

I have been think of a title for this blog & couldn't think of one. I thought about, here we are again, but I said na. I still don't know where to begin. I guess I will start with yesterday morning. It was a Thursday, my usual flex day. I don't have to be to work until 1230 & I was up checking my email. Usually I get junk, stuff about my lovely bills or lydia's scrubs. Stuff I love to delete. Well that morning was different. Brad & I received an email from LDS Family Service stating that a young girl has a baby boy that is due the end of May & she liked our profile. That was the gist of it. Brad & I had to both read it over & over again to make sure it was actually real. When we figured it was real, we wrote them back telling them that we are thankful & excited & all that fun stuff. There was more, but I am not going to go into that much detail. Well we forward it to our social worker in WA & with in 30-45 minutes she wrote back. She stated that the birth mother's mother called to get the ball rolling. I was shocked at the quick response. So I thought it would be a couple of days before anything big would happen. Boy was I wrong. Because about 4 pm the missionaries working for LDS Family Services contacted us & asked if we wanted to meet her either Friday or Saturday after 4 pm. I was like we would LOVE to. So the time was set to meet at 4:45 pm. Can I tell you that it was the longest day EVER. I thought time was going backwards. It was nuts. Well the time finally came & we meet with her. She was so cute. The prettiest thing ever. She in fact look exactly like my friend Christy from nursing school. It was crazy. It was a great meeting. We totally cried, laughed & everything in between. I can not tell the emotions that I felt. It was crazy. She was so neat. I loved her mom. They both were very personable & very very nice. So much was discussed. She is due the end of May & they think she will deliver the first week of June. Crazy quick. The way she talked, it sound like we are it. But from our last experience we felt the same way & we all know how that ended. But we talked about names & that Brad & I had different names picked out & we told her & she told us names that she liked. She really liked boy names that ended in -in or -on. One of the names that we talked about was Crayton. She likes that name. We love Crayton James Thomas. I actually love that name. Paging Dr. Crayton Thomas. But anyway. It sounds so sure. But as we were closing, I told her it is her decision & that I hope that she has a great experience. She had planned from the beginning to put the baby up for adoption & the first couple she chose fell through. So she was basically scrambling to find another couple. That is were we came in. She said that she had started buying clothes bc she knew it was getting close & they didn't have an adoptive couple. But she told us she would give us the babies clothes, stating that the baby would be ours. It is so VERY hard not to be so extremely excited. I just want to dance in the streets w/excitement. I want to announce it to the world that Brad & I are going to be parents. But I have to tell you the truth. I hold back a little. I think it is a protection thing, bc things can happen. A family member may step up & want to adopt or she may take one look into that precious little boys face & fall head over heals for him. When the baby is finally placed in our arms, then we will begin to scream at the top of our lungs. YIPPEE!!!!!!!!! Here we are again. Waiting. Which is the theme of our lives. But this is a good wait & a little stressful, but good.
We will continue to pray for her & hope that everything will go well. We pray that the transition will go well & that she will continue to know this is the right decision. We are very thankful for her & she is so amazing. In the beginning she said she was afraid that we wouldn't like here & here is me, I hope she likes us. Because Brad & I looked to frumpy when we got there. I had every intention to look normal, but I got up late & was unable to wash my hair to look like a human & Brad had to go straight from work to there. I swear we look normal & I hope that when we meet again it will be different. Her father wants to meet us. Hopefully that will happen soon.
We are very thankful for this time. I couldn't be any happier or grateful. This young lady will give us the best gift ever. We are thankful for her & will always pray for her. I wish you could all meet her. So for now, we wait & see. I will post more when I hear more:)