A little progress!

Her doctor's appointment yesterday went well. She's now a little over 4cm dilated!! She's having some cramping/light contractions and he stripped her membranes. He told her that he would be very suprised if she didn't have him in the next day or so. He went ahead and set an appointment for next week but told her that he should see her in the next couple days to deliver. We shall see! We are getting VERY anxious!

At 3cm and holding......

or so it seems! Today's doctor's appointment went well. She is still holding at 3cm dilated and having some pelvic pain. He has scheduled her for another appointment on Monday. Jen told the coordinator if he hasn't been born by then that she will request that he induce her. I'm not sure if he will but we shall see! Oh, I'm such a bucket of nerves!!

We are getting close!!!!

Jen went to her doctor's appointment today. She is measuring right on target and the baby looks healthy. He is in position to exit and she is dialated to 3cm! The coordinator told me that we should have a bag packed and be ready. OMG! We realize it could be any day or it could be another week or two but at least that's progress!

We have decided that it's time................

to publish the old posts concerning our adoption progress. We are REMATCHED with a birthmom!! I did ask for and received proof of pregnancy from her doctor's office. We are cautiously excited this time but have been too scared to tell too many people. Sunday she will be 36 weeks pregnant with a little boy!! WOW! The official due date is December 16th. We were officially matched on September 19th and we continue to pray that God will give her strength and help her feel secure about the decision she has made. If you look back through the old posts you should find where I've went back and released those old posts to be published. We thank everyone for their prayers as we approach the due date!!

My trip to Amy's house.....

was great! It was a much needed get away. Terri and I left last Thursday and came home on Sunday. Let's just say I think I have reconfirmed my decision of not liking to fly. We flew out of Albany and our plane was an hour late arriving and in return it made us really late for our connection flight in Atlanta. We were running from one end of the airport to the other and only had 15 minutes. Then we realized after checking our flight that it had also been delayed by 30 minutes which was great. We spent the weekend relaxing and just hanging out with each other. On Friday we visited Baylor University and the community college where Amy works and goes to school. Baylor is a Christian college and one of the buildings was in the shape of a cross. It was neat to get to see. Then on Saturday we went to the local zoo and the Dr. Pepper Museum. We all really had a good time and enjoyed ourselves. Sunday morning we were up and back at the airport. Things were running really smooth until it's time for us to board our plane in Atlanta to fly back in to Albany and there's no crew to fly the plane. We end up sitting for an extra hour in the Atlanta airport before we are able to fly out. We made it home safely and that's the important part!

She made it......

home by the weekend! I know she's happy to finally be back in her own bed. She will start going to physical therapy on Monday so I'm sure that will be a total different ball game. Thank you everyone for your prayers!

The BIG TB test.....

for out homestudy update. Oh how fun it was!! Yeah right! Chad was out of town so I decided that I would be a big girl and go all by myself. WRONG!! I broke all of my rules for how to 'handle' being stuck with a needle. You see there's a process I have to go through to prepare myself. First I have to eat breakfast, then I have to lay down, and lastly NO MATTER WHAT I don't look at the injection site! I broke EVERY last blasted rule I've always followed since I discovered I have the vaso-vagal response (fainting due to sudden loss of blood pressure). Some people will never know what this response is like but after an episode you feel completely horrible for the rest of the day. It took me an hour to recover before I felt comfortable enough to drive away! Let's just say that I've learned my lession and I will NEVER try to be a big girl again when it comes to needles!!

Please pray for my mom!

She had a partial knee replacement surgery today. The doctor said she done well and the hard part will be recovery. She will be in the hospital for two or three days before she can be released to go home. She wants to be out of there by the weekend because she swears you don't get as good of care over the weekend. Please pray that she does well and gets home soon!

Frustrated.......

with the process! I completely understand that everyone has to be paid at the end of the day but I feel like every corner we turn there's someone there with their hand out. We got word today that our homestudy has to now be updated. We will have the update fee with the social worker, a doctor visit fee for a physical, more lab work fees, fingerprint fees, and on and on. I realize in the end when we are holding our precious little guy it will be way worth it but today I'm just soo overwhelmed! All of this because he's due just 10 days past it's expiration. URGH!

Cautiously but anxiously waiting....

for December. Our birthmom, Jen, will be going to doctor's appointments bi-weekly from now on out since she's now in her third trimester. Last night I was in the nursery just looking through baby clothes and so forth to see what we had that could be used for him. I started packing up all of the girl clothes that would not be appopriate for him. We aren't going to do anything with them until we have received placement and the revocation period is up. It was a little sad to see the twin outfits that had been purchased especially for 'the twins'. It will just have to be a work in progress since we refuse to redecorate until we are 100% sure he will become part of our family. We aren't saying we won't take down the pink but we will keep it and not put back until after we are home. We feel like this is the best decision!