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Wow, what a week last week turned out to be! During our last post I shared with you that I was going to be calling the agency representing us in Korea on Monday morning (January 26th)...Well I called them but did not get a response right away. We had to wait a week and finally when both Brandon and I had started running rather low on patience, I emailed our agency this past Monday. The abbreviated answer to our question is that they can place our adoption in Korea on hold while we proceed with this domestic adoption. Basically our home study will stay there until we adopt this baby or request that we are taken off hold (only if something changes with this adoption). We were told that Korea does not allow concurrent adoptions so we did need to chose one or the other. Well, Brandon and I chose the domestic adoption. If we are blessed to adopt this little one, we will have to wait 12 months until we reapply to Korea; that is their rule. If something went wrong during this domestic adoption, we would remove the hold from our Korean adoption and proceed.

So onto our update with the domestic adoption...To make this all easier, when I refer to the birth mother I will call her, "C". Tuesday we had our second Dr's appt with C and we were all wondering if it was the ultrasound appt or not?? For some reason, we thought the ultrasound was during our next appt on the 11th. We were wrong and pleasantly surprised...The ultrasound was on Tuesday, Feb. 3rd...My dads Birthday! The three of us had placed our bets on the sex of the baby. As the ultrasound was taking place, C was laying on the table on the opposite side of the room from where Brandon and I were standing. When I looked over at her, she looked up at me, smiled and said, "It's a boy". She noticed even before the ultrasound tech! I moved along side her and put my hand on hers . Seeing him made this all feel even more real....The excitement of a baby boy and the pain she must have been feeling after seeing her son. She was AMAZINGLY calm and then looked up and over at Brandon and said, "well dad...what do you think?" I could not get over how at peace she seemed. When we left the Dr's office, I had to ask her..."C, are you sure about this?" And she said, "Robin, it's not my time; my time will come again". It was nothing short of an amazing day with an amazing woman! It's one of those things that is difficult to even describe and do it justice. We left the appt and visited for a bit with her and her girls and then left for Indy. Our next appt is on the 11th when we will head back down.

On another note...Many of you know that when we started the adoption process and "new" (haha) we were getting a girl, we decorated the nursery! Of course, we went with feminine colors...Pink and green. You probably can imagine that we now have this pretty little girl's room that is about to get an extreme make over!! Away with the pale pink, shabby chic, crystal chandelier and in with the dump trucks and bull dozers!! ;-) Either that or we will raise a confused little man. I'm a tiny bit nervous about doing any decorating and yet I don't want to wait until the baby comes home...That would certainly be entertaining! A new mom with no sleep trying to paint! haha :) The other big topic has been, boy names. You may remember that we had chosen Hadley as the name for a girl and now we're going to be on the hunt for boy names. We'd love to hear any ideas!!! Brandon and I are struggling in that department, nothing is really jumping out at us yet. We'll keep you posted....

Sending hugs and love your way! xo

Robin and Brandon