One Year ago Today....

I was sitting at work when our program coordinator, Robyn, from CAS called and said, "Are you sitting down? This is it - this is your referral call." How could that be? We'd only sent in our dossier one week prior, and we thought we'd be waiting 3 or 4 months.

Robyn gave me all of the details - the baby's name, date of birth, height, weight, and location. Shortly after the call she sent an email with pictures and medical information. I quickly called Doug, who was on his way to a dentist appointment, and told him to pull over somewhere to get on email. He went into the local library and we both opened the email at the same time - and then Doug was a little weirded out because he was looking at pictures of a naked baby on the library computer! But we were both in awe of the gorgeous little boy whose face we saw that day - and I printed off several copies to carry with me - and just stared at his face.

We celebrated with dinner that night and when we told the waitress our good news, they brought us shots of grappa, which nearly burned our insides, but hey, they were happy for us!

All of our hardwork and waiting and hoping and praying were worth it - all of the sadness of the past couple of years melted away in the moment we saw his face. He was going to be our son.
We cannot believe that one year has passed since that day - a day we will never forget, Wednesday, January 17, 2007. We love you Tommy!

Tommy's referral picture, taken at 7 weeks old

Look at him now! Christmas 2007

Riding on his Spiderman car - Christmas 2007

Trying out the snowsuit - December 2007

Tommy loves the Swiffer - he grabs it every time the pantry door opens

We really didn't train him to do this.....