Wow... it's been a while

I have been looking for an outlet to tell our story... and when I had one I found it exhausting. Well, that and having a 2 year old!

When I left off we had given our Kate back, gone on a cruise, and returned home to try again. Not much happened for the next few weeks. We didn't get rid of things, so looking at them was hard. We went back to work, going out, living the mom-free life. Now is when it gets good!

On December 20th we received a call that a baby girl had been born the day before. Same hospital as Kate. It was hard to get excited, the stories were similar. However, this time her birth mom was older and the decision seemed much more well informed. Now we had to learn about dealing with a baby who has been born with some cocaine in her system. After learning more about her apgar scores and talking to a genetic counselor we decided to say yes. But we didn't tell our families yet. It wasn't definite.

So we carried on as normal for a couple of days. We headed home for the holidays. It was Christmas Eve when we got the real call. Papers were signed and she was ours! We were actually at my wife's house and both of our families were together when we walked in to share the news!

They were cautiously excited. Every one's first question was, "What will you name her?" We had not decided. We had a short list of names and had argued the pros and cons of each. When asked the question we said at the same time "Phoebe Grace"! And that was it!