It's been a long day and it's only morning

Hi friends.

We arrived in Arkansas last night - or should I say this morning around 1:00 a.m. We went straight to the hospital and saw the most beautiful face through the thickest of glasses that I have ever seen since I met Little girl.

Michael David was born at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 31st. He weighs 5 lbs. 14 oz. and is 18" long. He has lots of light brown wavy hair and pretty blue eyes. We only got to see him through the nursery window for minutes, but it was enough to get me through the night. He is perfectly healthy and as handsome as any boy I've ever seen in my life!!!

Today has been hard. It's Labor Day and we found out this morning that our attorney is out of town. Yeah. We would've thought he would've had a back-up person in such a situation, but this is not the case. We were supposed to be with baby Michael all day today and our birth mom was going to sign away her rights to us and be discharged this afternoon.

As of now, we have to wait for the attorney to arrive back in town tomorrow morning. He goes to court and then will be at the hospital around 10:00 a.m. to meet with our birth mom. She will be discharged tomorrow, as well as Michael should be released to us at the same time.

We are not allowed to hold him or see him today due to the fact that she hasn't signed any paperwork yet and the hospital legally won't allow us. Also, our birth mom has requested to have this last day with him all to herself before she gives him to us for a lifetime tomorrow. We completely respect this request and are going to honor it. Today is already feeling eternal and every second is dragging.

Thankfully - the Lord knew I would need my mom today and my parents drove in with us last night and are here helping us with Little girl.

I ache to hold that little baby I saw last night who looked at me with the widest and sweetest eyes I could ever imagine. I know that the Lord is in control. Our birth mom is still solid and steady on her decision to choose adoption for her son and for that we are so thankful.

In a situation where we feel so out of control - we know God knew how this day would unfold before we did.

I can't wait to have my boy in my arms tomorrow. Please pray for us, for him and for our birth mom today. We love you all!

Thanks so much for all your messages, your texts and phone calls of love. We feel it and we so appreciate it.

We will be with our little man soon! Watch for his picture! Much love from all of us.