A TWIN Blessing!!

We are blessed and announce with joy we were given our referral this week for twin boys!!  The boys are around two months old and they are darling!  Ethiopian law prevents us from posting their pictures on the internet, or we would love to share.  The above photo is of Phisher's hand.  The thumb in the photograph belongs to Dr Kee Park, a colleague of Jamie's from Cape.  He is actually in Addis, Ethiopia and went to the orphanage to visit the boys.  What he reported back to us was that Phelix has been in the hospital for an upper respiratory infection for about a week.  Dr Park went to the hospital and checked on our little guy, Phelix, and he reported that he is doing well on his IV antibiotics and has been fever free for three days.  He is expected to be released back to the orphanage in a few days.  We are very thankful that Dr Park was able to check in on the boys for us.  He also said that they appear healthy and, "are super cute!"  Phelix has captivating eyes doesn't he?

Most people want to know what is next?  When can you go and get them?  Well we have to wait for a court date.  It will probably be in about 4 to six weeks.  I will post when I get the date.  There is a man who works for our adoption agency who will go to court on our behalf.  Pray with us we pass court the first time(it is not unusual not to pass court the first time for a variety of reasons)  After we pass court, we will be assigned an Embassy date.  We will travel around this date, make our embassy appointment and then return home with the boys.  This process can take a while, if everything goes really well (which is unusual!) we hope to travel in July to get them.

We can all use your prayers as we wait to bring them home.  It is very difficult to sit and look at photographs, in Parker's words, "Photographs, I don't want any more photographs, I want my brothers!"  Please pray for their health and safety.  Please pray for the staff at the orphanage, the nannies who care for all of the children.  I was told there is usually around 18 children there, there is 38 children there now!  We are still in a bit of shock . . . TWINS. . . but know God is the author of this whole journey and He knows we can handle it, so we are keeping our trust in HIM!

We are not ready in the least!  Of course, I did make a stroller purchase a couple months back, a SINGLE stroller.  That will have to be returned, and we will be looking for double in all the necessary equipment.  We are all very excited and praise God for this double blessing!  I will post more details soon.