Blessed by adoption
We have been blessed by the adoption of 2 little boys. I must say, they are amazing! I can’t imagine our life without them.
They are only 9-1/2 months apart and we adopted them as newborns. We brought one home when he was 9 weeks old and the other when he was almost 4 months old. They’re now 5 and 4. The older is Chinese and the younger is Russian, so we call them our Chinese-Russian-Irish twins since they were both born in the same year.
They are extra-special to us, not just because they both have Down syndrome, but because of the way God placed them into our family. We were actually trying to adopt 2 little girls from Mexico and the process shut down. (More about them another day…..we’d still go get them in a heartbeat. They also sported “designer genes”.) Our boys were adopted domestically and we had only been talking to the agency we adopted them through for a few weeks when they called us about the first one. ( not normal and totally unexpected) We didn’t even have our home study 100% finished! (more…)
