When your prayers are answered and your dreams come true…

HAVE YOU MISSED ME?! Okay, you know I love bloggin’…and I’ve been MIA for a bit–which could mean 1) Something is wrong 2) I am extra busy 3) I’m on vacation. Okay…I can assure you that I haven’t been on vacation…that would be nice–but not so much. I am also happy to share–that for once…NOTHING is wrong!!! Which leaves…I AM EXTRA BUSY!!! Now…this is when you are supposed to wonder what I’m up to!!! Well, for those of you who have been praying for Isaac Temesgen for awhile and who have been following his sweet story–this is the blog entry that leaves you grinning from EAR to EAR. This is the blog entry “when your prayers are answered and your dreams come true.”

For those of you who know our story from beginning to now–do you remember what the Lord did to calm my heart the NIGHT we got Isaac’s referral? He was 8 months and unable to lift his head. While most babies at 8 months are crawling–all he was doing was smiling. Yet, we felt the Lord saying, “HE. IS. YOUR. SON!” We said yes–and after we said yes–the Lord gave us a sweet gift. I had a very real dream that night that Isaac was crawling. In my dream–the other children were running around…I was squealing and he was all over the place. We really believed this was a dream from the Lord saying our Isaac was going to be okay. This past Wednesday (when I blogged last), Isaac got on his knees and was able to put pressure on them during physically therapy. The therapist looked at me and said, “Now, I don’t want to get your hopes up—but if I had to guess…I’d say this baby will be crawling in 6-8 weeks–just my guess!” I was SO excited! I left there on cloud 9!!! I called Richard to tell him how well he had done.

On Thursday morning I was getting ready and asking Laney to sit with Isaac for a minute while I brushed my teeth in the bathroom. From the other room, she started screaming, “Momma! He’s crawling! He’s crawling!” Which I replied, “Darlin’ it’s rockin’ baby. He just started doing it yesterday–it’s called rocking…but HE WILL CRAWL one day I promise!” She kept screaming he was crawling…but this momma just kept brushing her teeth…thinking, “Bless her heart–she just wants him to crawl so badly…how sweet–but he is CLOSE!” THEN…we proceded to have one of the craziest mornings–got in traffic, the older two were late because of it and I had to check them in…and then I was late for a playdate at MY house. BUT to my surprise—we sat down to play—and I saw for myself exactly what my daughter had been trying to tell me. He took off–and started crawling!!! And well, I’ve been a little busy, excited, even to far gone on cloud 9 to blog every since;). (We also were out of town all weekend…SO I have some catching up to do!!!)

BUT…SO MANY of you have been a part of our journey. SO MANY of you have prayed for us along the way. SO…I wanted to share this BIG MILESTONE with you–and everything it means to us…with you so you can rejoice with us!!! So…just a week shy of 14 months…our little man is ON THE MOVE!!! Here is a video of him crawling (you’ll have to ignore my crazy mommy squeals–and Frank’s binky…we choose our battles here…) I love that he had ME miss his first crawl and allowed LANEY his sister–someone who has hoped and prayed for this day see it first. Later I had to ask for her forgiveness for not listening and believing—and she just said, “It’s okay mommy. But I TRIED to tell you!!!” God’s timing really is always perfect. And I just have to share!!! Here is a bit of OUR JOY…

Thank you so much for all of you who have prayed for us and continue to pray. God’s timing is SO, SO perfect. We discovered just hours after his crawling that our little man had some internal yuck to get rid of which we’ll be working hard on in the weeks ahead–but everything is curable and we believe…really believe…he is going to be well soon. We really believe his respiratory, GI, even physical delays will soon be gone…and we are even hopeful he has no underlying cause to his hypotonia. I know I am his momma and just have to believe this—and I am thankful for those of you who pray and believe this with me.

One of my BIGGEST encouragements and cheerleaders in this journey has been my friend Kristi Johnson. This sweet friend has been there to listen to me say with confidence that I believe my son is going to be 100% healthy–and she has also been there when we had no idea. This is the family that first inspired us to adopt–and it was so sweet to see them this weekend when we were in their area for a wedding. What PERFECT timing to share this milestone with them and for Isaac to play with his sweet friend Lucy Lane. Words can’t express how much this family means to us—and thankful I am for their constant friendship and love to our family!!! So…we had to grab some footage once again of these two playing together!

The thing that gets me about that video of Lucy Lane and Isaac Temesgen–is how HAPPY and JOYFUL they both are. I think about their stories…both so powerful. I think about how much different their lives would look if God never led their birth moms to ultimately love them so much…to chose life for them. I truly believe that these two–and many others–have such a calling on their lives for the Kingdom. I believe God will use them to do amazing things in this world…and I am just so honored that God would chose me to parent this little guy. I feel like my prayers truly are being answered–in more ways than one. And that the dreams of my heart—aligned with His—really are also coming true. There is SUCH JOY in following Him and trusting Him through this adoption journey. And my oh my…how I understand why families adopt again and again.

I want to thank you for being on this journey with our family…and for encouraging us and rejoicing with us!!! We are SO excited for all that is ahead…and I’ll leave you with some picture fun from these two little ones…(You’ll want to turn down the music up top for this one!) Indeed, these two are happy little babies. And I have to say they have made their mommas even happier!!! Dispite any bumps in the road–I can’t tell you how much JOY my little man brings to my life…and I know Kristi would say the SAME thing of her Lucy Lane.

I have lots more from our weekend to share! I got a few SWEET emails asking if we were okay…and YES we are…thankfully I’ve been on my toes with a new mobile one–and we took Thursday to Sunday to be with our family in Tennessee. More fun to share tomorrow—but HAD to share our great news with ya tonight!

Rejoice in the Lord always…and again I say rejoice…