Three sort of snuck up on us; we bought a hot tub and that
meant expanding the porch then of course Jynx thought it should be expanded
more. Oh, and since we were doing all
this Jynx thought it would be nice if I built a bar for the porch. With all of this going on, Little Man’s third
birthday was upon us.
We took Little Man to his favorite restaurant, Tyler’s
Tender. Grandma Ruth, Grandpa Jim,
Grandma Rosie and Auntie Jea Jea came for the fun. Little Man of course had a great time running
all over and playing with the trains.
Grandma Ruth did her best to keep up but I’m sure she slept well that
night. Little Man didn’t want to take a
break to eat but ordered a “HOT DOG!” as he so famously says now and then ate
the entire thing quickly. Not only does
he infaticaly say “Hot Dog!” but now he also says his name “Jay-A-Me”, everyone
asks when did he become Italian? After
Tyler’s we headed back to the house for some ice cream cake.
We all slept well that night not knowing what the next day
had in store for us. I awoke the morning
of July 20 and headed out to the store, I had the day off and Little Man’s
birthday party was coming and I needed to complete some things around the
house. I arrived home and began working
on railroad signs railroad crossing, Jameville, JJ Junction, JJS Railroad
Double J Crossing and Bubba Falls to go with the water slide Jynx had
bought. I was doing okay but a bit
behind on what I wanted to get done when Jynx’s sister yelled from the house
“Rog! You might want to be in here!” My
first assumption was that Little Man was in some funny position like watching
TV upside down. I started heading to the
house thinking I would only look quickly and get right back to work. As I approached the porch Jynx ran out of the
house tears in her eyes and the phone in her hand. My stomach dropped as I thought of what
possibly could be wrong. Jynx started
telling me but I could not understand her, about all I could make out was
“Baby” and “Girl”, then she handed me the phone and she ran back into the
house. I placed the phone to my ear and
it was Joanna our adoption counselor who explained that they have a beautiful
baby girl for us and she was born on the 18th and we could pick her
up after 4 o’clock.
We arrived at the hospital and met little Hope Rose Steele;
she was perfect and hardly cried as we signed the paperwork and waited around
for her final test. The biological
Grandmother asked to meet us and we naturally agreed, they could have asked us
to walk over hot coals and we would have agreed. She was a lovely woman and she told us about
the birthmother and how she gave birth at home and even cut the umbilical cord herself. We were able to get a picture with her and
she got a picture of us. We said our
goodbyes and the adoption counselor walked out with her. Later the adoption counselor told us she was
happy and that we were a great family for the baby to go to, and that warmed
our hearts. Hopefully one day our kids
will be able to meet their birth mom’s, they are our angels.
Unfortunately, Little Man was not able to come to the
hospital with us. Although in the months
up to Jame Jacks birthday, we asked if he wanted a brother or sister and he
always said sister. After hours at the
hospital and all of our paperwork signed, we loaded Little Hope into her car
carrier and headed home so she could meet her big brother, Aunts, and Grampy
Rock. When we arrived at the house
Little Man came running out to greet his Little Sister. We placed her on the deck and he was laughing
with excitement and even chuckled a bit more as Juno stopped to give her a
sniff over. He then ran over to the
couch so he could hold her.
Our family is now complete and the adventures have just
begun. Jynx’s Dad has always said if you
get a Boy and a Girl, you have a Million Dollar Combination! Well, although we struggled for many years to
have a family, this sure has been worth the wait. God always has a plan, thank
you. Welcome home Hope Rose Steele.
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