Adeline Makes a Family of Four

We've been wishing, hoping and praying for our next child to find her way to our home . . . and, she finally did!

Our little Adeline Joy was born on Tuesday, December 30.  Her birth mom allowed us to be in the delivery room for Addie's birth and we were grateful beyond words.  The experience was AMAZING and her birth mom did the BEST job ever throughout her labor and delivery.  She is a true champ . . . or to us, a real super hero.

Addie came in at 7 pounds, 14 ounces and was 19 inches long.  She was born at 4:46pm.

Baby and birth mom stayed incredibly healthy while in the hospital and were discharged after two days.  It was then that Beau and I brought our little Addie home to meet her big sister (hospital rules were that no children under the age of 14 were allowed due to sickness).  Evie was BEYOND excited.  You must know that we had ALL been praying for this beautiful birth mom and baby sister for months in hopes that we would get to bring her home.  So, Evie was WELL aware of her new baby sister.  Each day we came home from the hospital, the first thing she asked us was to see more pics of her baby sister.  So, she was WAY excited to finally meet her in person.  I didn't have enough time to actually get this in focus, but I'm SO glad I have it none-the-less.  You can really see how excited Evie was when we walked through the door with little Adeline (the following is a video . . . if it's not coming up on your phone, you may need to open the blog on a computer).

As you can see, Evie was instantly in love (as we all were).

She couldn't quit saying, "She's SO cute!"
It was adorable.  She was smitten.

And, of course, had to hold her right away!

We are SO happy and overflowing with joy that Adeline is in our family.  She is such a sweet tempered baby and brings another layer of love and light into our home.

We honestly cannot quit holding or kissing her!

I mean, can you blame us?  Just look at this sweet baby!

We cannot express into words how grateful we are for adoption, and especially for the selfless love of birth mothers . . . especially the ones of our two beautiful girls!  They are incredible women and we wouldn't have our sweet, little family without them.  These birth moms are two of our earthly angels that God sent to us, to our family, and to these precious girls.  We are ALL part of each other's plans and we couldn't be more grateful!

Just look at these two girls!  Our hearts just might burst with the love we have for them.  And, we love the way they came to us.  Adoption is a true miracle and we know we are living the miracle with them every day.