1 week and still no news

I know they said 2 - 4 weeks before paperwork would come, but I was really hoping and praying for it to come earlier. Been keeping busy getting her bed and room ready. Bought some cute yarn to knit her a sweater. Just trying to stay busy. The first week went by so quickly as I was excitedly telling everyone the news. Now everything is moving in slow mode...bleh!

Ethan has been talking a lot about his sister today. I think he's really getting excited. He told me today that she could sit in his lap on the plane ride home because she might be scared to sit by herself. Brought tears to my eyes. The older boys have started to ask questions too. Mostly about the trip to Lithuania. Harry asked today if I thought Tori would be a Michigan fan or a State fan. The things kids think about...makes me laugh!

Girls are fun!

Today I got to go shopping with my mom and it was all about cute girl stuff! We bought an adorable jumper with a matching outfit for an itty bitty baby. I sure hope it fits, but it was just too cute to pass up. We also got a couple of patterns and some cute material to make some clothes. Fun! Today I am also going to get her room painted as well as the 4 poster bed I picked up on craigslist (what a steal that was!). It's so exciting to get ready for Viktorija to come home. I think I'm nesting!

 I also got a surprise in my email of some new pictures of her. Sooo cute! She has the sweetest smile. I'm imagining that her smile is because she was told that she has a family who wants to adopt her...I'm not sure what she has been told if anything.  It's so nice to have a face and a name to put with the love I have had for a daughter for over 2 years now.

God has answered our prayers!

What a wonderful day it is! My cheeks hurt from smiling so much and tears of happiness seem to be constantly brimming my eyes. We received the call today from our social worker at 9:30am that Lithuania has chosen us to be Viktorija's family!  Praise be to God! I drove up to Broderick's work to tell him in person. Unfortunately he had to get on a conference call right away, so we haven't had a chance to really celebrate together.  We will be celebrating tonight!! The boys are excited too, well as excited as boys can get about this kind of stuff. Now we wait for more paperwork to be completed. They told us 2 to 4 weeks to get the "official referral."  Then we send our acceptance letter (and more money of course) and they will set up our court date. I just can't find the words..... I am so happy and I just can't wait to bring her home!

Over these last few weeks I have been so humbled and over whelmed by the number of people praying for us and our adoption journey! Word has spread (partially thanks to facebook) and so many have come up to us telling us how happy they are for us and that they are praying for us. It truly has been felt! I know that the rest of our journey will continue to be surrounded by prayer as well. Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts! I look forward to sharing with all of you our journey in bringing Viktorija home!