FROM MY JOURNAL : a year ago today . . . . . .
Friday, February 09, 2007
Journal Entry-
Thursday, February 9, 2006:
D and I took a nap from 2-4. D came in and was cuddling with me before we got up and around because hubby had a plan that we would leave at 5 to go out to eat and do our grocery shopping together. [he had been out of town at a conference the whole week before]
At 4:23 the phone rang! It was our case-manager from the agency! It was THE CALL!!!
He had a referral for us - her name is V _ _ _ _ _ _ _. She is 12 months old right now, her birthday is January 18, 2005. Her hair is brown and she seems to have dark blue eyes. She weighs 15.2 pounds. She knows how to crawl, sit up, baby talk, plays with toys, knows her name and can walk by holding on to "the barrier."
We got a few (poor quality) pictures by e-mail. She is cute and looks like she may have a good little personality by the funny faces she is making in some of them.
We only have a small paragraph of medical information, but nothing within it rings any bells of alarm for us. We will send the information to a doctor who specializes in International Adoption referrals for her opinion. Unless she just sees something that we don't, we feel quite positive that this is our daughter.
When Mr. P very first began to speak her name, I knew he was going to say V _ _ _ _ _ _ _. Over the past months I've looked at the 8 baby girls registered in our region on the Russian Data-bank website and although there is a baby on there named Inna that looks exactly like D as a baby and even has the same last initial (????) I have been drawn to V over and over all these months. So I had no doubt that the following syllables out of his mouth would speak her name.
Needless to say, the shopping trip and going out to eat has been scrapped!
edited to add:
I know that looking at the data-bank site and falling in love with one particular baby is NOT a good idea. We would have been pleased and happy to be given a referral for nearly every one of those babies. However, there was just something about V and I was not surprised in the least when he spoke her name. Of course she was the only baby out of the 8 who's name began with V - but then the website could not have been maintained and there may have been other V named children who I'd never seen. But it was her!
another edit to include:
We DID have the MOE check the data-bank to make sure there were no birth siblings (of any age) of D's in the system. So, this Inna was not her birth sibling.
Thursday, February 9, 2006:
D and I took a nap from 2-4. D came in and was cuddling with me before we got up and around because hubby had a plan that we would leave at 5 to go out to eat and do our grocery shopping together. [he had been out of town at a conference the whole week before]
At 4:23 the phone rang! It was our case-manager from the agency! It was THE CALL!!!
He had a referral for us - her name is V _ _ _ _ _ _ _. She is 12 months old right now, her birthday is January 18, 2005. Her hair is brown and she seems to have dark blue eyes. She weighs 15.2 pounds. She knows how to crawl, sit up, baby talk, plays with toys, knows her name and can walk by holding on to "the barrier."
We got a few (poor quality) pictures by e-mail. She is cute and looks like she may have a good little personality by the funny faces she is making in some of them.
We only have a small paragraph of medical information, but nothing within it rings any bells of alarm for us. We will send the information to a doctor who specializes in International Adoption referrals for her opinion. Unless she just sees something that we don't, we feel quite positive that this is our daughter.
When Mr. P very first began to speak her name, I knew he was going to say V _ _ _ _ _ _ _. Over the past months I've looked at the 8 baby girls registered in our region on the Russian Data-bank website and although there is a baby on there named Inna that looks exactly like D as a baby and even has the same last initial (????) I have been drawn to V over and over all these months. So I had no doubt that the following syllables out of his mouth would speak her name.
Needless to say, the shopping trip and going out to eat has been scrapped!
edited to add:
I know that looking at the data-bank site and falling in love with one particular baby is NOT a good idea. We would have been pleased and happy to be given a referral for nearly every one of those babies. However, there was just something about V and I was not surprised in the least when he spoke her name. Of course she was the only baby out of the 8 who's name began with V - but then the website could not have been maintained and there may have been other V named children who I'd never seen. But it was her!
another edit to include:
We DID have the MOE check the data-bank to make sure there were no birth siblings (of any age) of D's in the system. So, this Inna was not her birth sibling.
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We have not received a "the call" today. This is an excerpt from my journal a year ago today.
I've gone back and corrected my Title Line.
thank you so much for sharing
I really do hope and pray that you will have NEWS soon
How can you not go the site and look at the babies?? No one could resist.
I wish you all the best!
No news from my agency either. But the 90 day clock ticks on. Soon there will be no more excuses for delays. It has to get moving again.
Be strong, even though it is hard. Lisa