Mollie is the sweetest, loving, huggable, happiest little girl! She loves her dogs (yes they are her dogs) and her teeth grew in fairly young that she must feed herself. She doesn’t let us feed her and she loves to learn! If I am doing something, she is curious and inquisitive and I love teaching her about what I am doing whether it be cleaning, typing or whichever.

She loves the computer so we gave her an old laptop we had so she can play BUT she still goes after our computers. Mollie is also climbing, taking steps and loves going to the park. She is def. a daredevil as she climbs up on the playsets and I hold her while she goes down the slide. Today, Mollie decided that going head first was fun and it was amazing to see her laugh and smile.

The past year has been fun and I will try and update on this blog more this year than the last. We are truly blessed to have been matched so quickly and am thankful to Mollie’s birthmom. We plan to continue to grow our family through adoption as it is the greatest gift anyone can give.

She has grown strong and all she wants to do is talk, stand and be social. It is wonderful to see how much she has grown into a healthy baby. We are truly blessed and thankful for Mollie. She will be 5 months on June 14.

On Jan. 14, 2009 our new baby daughter was born! The BM thought she was 7 months pregnant and actually was 9 months pregnant. We received a call from her that evening telling us she had the baby. She did not have pre-natal care so could be a reason why she didn’t know how far along she was?Anyway the BM and us connected from an ad we posted in The New Times. We got an 800 number, posted an ad starting in Dec to run for 8 weeks and received 3 phone calls New Year’s Day. It was pretty wild and we met 2 of the BM’s since they were local to us.

This has been an amazing experience and we had to make a decision quickly to adopt our daughter due to some BM issues she did not tell us about. At the end we decided to move forward and now we have a beautiful baby girl. AZ is 72 hours after the birth, BM signs consent. She signed POA and the lawyer called us to tell us we can move forward.

The final hearing is not for 3-6 months, when the court schedules it but everything else is complete. It has been a quick process and we know how fortunate we are. Baby Mollie is our first child.

Adoption is a gift and a decision we all have to make. The relationship you form with a birth mom is one that will last a lifetime.

Happy New Year!

We are very excited and thank our friends and family for all their love and support.

How many agency’s or moderators give support to the birth mom after placement? Yes, during the whole decision time of placing the baby up for adoption, but what about after the placement? I am curious as I have read many recollection by birth mothers who say the adoptive family didn’t hold up to their promise of sending pictures and updates and how they struggle with even getting in contact with the family.

If the agency’s are charging adoptive families these high fees, does this fee include after care and after placement therapy? Can anyone answer this question?

Aaron and I are so excited and know there will still be time to find a match BUT it is really happening! We are going to be parents and have a family one day which words cannot describe. We are sooo excited and can’t wait to be connected to a birthmother and child.

We will ask a few more questions about when we should expect to be officially home certified and how long will it take for the court to approve us but it is really happening! We are on our way to becoming adoptive parents.

Our journey of having a family through adoption has begun! We are so excited and will keep everyone updated on the progress.

Connected with a referral service in California called Everlasting Adoption and luckily they were honest enough and smart enough to find that they couldn’t work with us since we are located in Arizona. But they helped us find an adoption lawyer, Dan Ziskin located in Phoenix.

We met with the lawyer and found out some wonderful and helpful information which gave us much hope in moving forward with the adoption process. We will begin the home certification course shortly and have been following Mr. Ziskin’s recommendations of “marketing” for a birth mother. At first it sounded a little odd but since we are not using an agency who would be doing the marketing for us, this made more sense.

Now its just patience and excitement all wrapped up into one emotion.