What a day

Today we met out son... how amazing is it to say that we met the little man that will be blessing us in years to come. it might have only been a picture but we still got to see him put a face to our sweet Bear!! We woke up this morning at 3 AM we where just excited, nervous, anxious, well every feeling one could have we had it. our appointment was at 9AM so needless to say we really didn't get much sleep. We spent the next 4 hour or at least I did thinking and thinking. At 8:30 Valentin arrived to take us to the SDA (I think it is safe to say I love him he is amazing he just brings this sense of comfort) we waited for sometime outside before we waited inside and today it was cold, but no big deal. the SDA is nothing like I imagined but it was perfect the walls were blue and the building was quite old. Valentin went with us into the psychologist office, she was beautiful and kind she asked us a few things about our family and wanted to know why we wanted to adopt special needs, this is very rare most adoptive parent want healthy kids, but what is hard for me is how we as american define healthy, anyway, after a short talk she got right to it and said that this young boy she had been trying very hard to find a family for him. His birthday is December 14 (the day we come home, thought that was funny, Happy Birthday welcome home) he is sooooo cute he will be 2 or 3 we can't remember there was so much happening at once, he has a missing left arm below the elbow and is crossed eyed but he is healthy. they called the orphanage and he is very active participate in all the activities, he is not talking much but is a very happy boy. Our minds were made up at this point but we decided to see a few more all boys the other one we fell in love with was a sweet little boy that had TB and because of that he had holes in his brain and he had heart problems. This was by far the hardest decision that we have ever made, my heart was breaking and I was crying Valentin was so supportive and the Psychologist said that our minds were made up the moment we saw the first boy but I was feeling so bad, you know I want to take them all. Valentin told us there are so many orphans we can not take them all but we can change this little boys life. so we picked the little boy with the missing arm, his name is Ogey he had those cut deep set eyes and a fat little face. I feel happy but at the same time the other little boy with the TB will forever be in my heart and in my prayers. it is a strange mixture of emotions we are excited to finally put a face to our sweet Bear but I am so sad that we had to say no to the other boy. We feel very confident in our decision and are very excited to meet him he is in the East so as soon as we get the ok and the quarantine has lifted we will be traveling to go meet Ogey or Bear as we all know him by :) so now we wait. We were able to get some groceries and we got a cell phone so we can communicate with Valentin we are starting to feel more comfortable here we still miss home but we feel better a new sense of renewal we are ready to meet Bear in person. please pray that the quarantine is lifted soon and we see our Ogey. love you all!!!!!