It's A Girl

A few hours after I posted this entry to our blog, I received an email from our agency to give them a call. I didn’t exactly expect it, but figured that the call would have something to do with the request we had made during the preceding weekend for a waiting child we’d seen on the MOJ site. I was right… sort of… as we got word that MOJ could not grant our request because we had just been matched with another little girl through the main procedure. In other words, we got a huge Valentine’s Day surprise by receiving news of a referral from Bulgaria. And yes, it came exactly two years to the day after we’d mailed our initial adoption application.

After a long month of anticipation and some other adoption craziness that I don’t care to share, we finally were sent the file of our little girl. I cannot reveal too much about her yet, but I can tell you that when we initially read her report, the prognosis for her health and development seemed grim and we were not sure we could proceed with her adoption. It took another three weeks to get clarification on her medical history (which, by the way, included many inaccuracies) and the results of some medical testing she’d undergone. We are so glad we requested updated photos, videos, additional testing as well as asked a lot of questions and consulted with a local IA doctor because without this information we might have missed out on our child.

Our daughter is lovely, very small for her age with orphanage delays and a medical condition that will need to be monitored and maybe treated/corrected in the future. She’s a toddler just as we requested and we are so excited to meet her later this month.

And now we’ll have to get ready for virtual twin toddlers from two different Eastern European countries to join our family before this year is over.