Can you imagine?

Can you imagine this life? Loving a teenager enough to open your homes and hearts to be a forever family. Can you imagine being the teenager and finally have a family to call your own? There are beautiful special people that live this every day. This video is really sweet. Enjoy.

What I have learned....

The last 6 weeks an 6 days have taught me plenty. Here are a few.....


I never knew that I would use the word "poop" so many times a day. As a verb "Come on budy, go poop" Attached to adjectives "It's green, brown, mustard yellow poop" As a noun "I think I smell poop"


I never knew I would worry so much, "Is he hot?" "Is he too cool?" "Is he eating too much?" "Is he eating too little?"


I never knew that even with the worrying that after a few weeks, things come really naturally.


I never knew how much healing could come from a crying, pooping, sleeping, smiling, playing, ten pound miracle.


I never knew how my heart would fill to capacity when my son smiles at me.

I never knew how proud I would be to see Amber with her "bubba" :)

I never knew that I could look back at our homecoming photos and still cry in amazement and thankfulness.

I never knew how much more I could miss my Daddy. He loved kids, especially enjoyed the little ones that were born in our family the year he passed away. He would be one proud Grandpa Kenny.

These are just some of the things I have learned over the last (almost) 7 weeks. I have no doubt I have many many more things to learn. 

One Month!!!!

I know all new moms say this, but when Caleb turned one month old today, I could hardly believe it! Where has this month gone??? One month ago, on a Monday morning, we received a call that a woman had given birth to a healthy baby boy and she wanted to place him for adoption. We were told that our profile, among others, would be shown to her that day. And then we waited.......2 very long days to see if we had been picked. On that Wednesday afternoon, we received the call that change our lives forever. She wanted us to parent her son! We flew out on the first plane out and spent the next nine days loving on our beautiful boy while waiting to hear we could return to NC. We finally returned to NC on March 16th and had the most amazing homecoming! We have now been home 20 days and are continuing to settle into a routine and our new life as a family of four.

Caleb had his one month check-up today to include a Hep B shot, which he took pretty well. He was a little offended but quickly forgot about it.

Here are big man's stats for one month!

Weight - 9lb 11oz! (birth weight was 7lbs7oz)

Height - 20 3/4 inches (birth length was 19in)

Head circumference - 15 inches

He is still eating every two hours and occasionally will stretch it to 3 hours and on a very rare occasion he made it over four hours, but only once or twice.

He eats at least 2 oz at every feeding and if he can manage to stay awake he might can be persuaded to drink 3oz.

We have been asked more than once if he sleeps through the night....is that even possible at this age? Plus, this man likes to eat to much for that!

He is on "grazing" kick right now......eat an ounce, sleep fifteen minutes, eat another ounce, sleep some more.....eat some more, sleep an hour.....that really makes for a LONG night! LOL

He is so strong with holding his head up for longer periods of time now. He loves to gaze into our faces and has started making the sweetest little sounds occasionally. He waves his hands and kicks his feet like crazy now, it is so fun to watch.

So far, none of his long hair has fallen out *fingers crossed*

Thank you sweet baby boy for rocking our world in the most wonderful way!