Life as We Know it......

Tonight will be Miss A's last night at 17 Tweed. See you tomorrow our sweet girl.

Tonight marks the end of the second full day visit Miss A has had to our bed and breakfast. For the last two mornings we have gotten up, eaten breakfast, been shuttled to Ada's baby home, picked her up and brought her back for the day. Shortly before 5pm each day we are shuttled back to the baby home to drop her off. Yesterday our little A was still pretty sick. She spent most of the day sleeping either in a carrier or on mommy. Today she was much more perky ( I would like to say herself....but we have still not really seen who Miss Ada is). The other babes also looked much better this morning. Thankfully (keep on praying) none of the other Ehmanns have become sick yet.

J takes his job as big brother very seriously.

Having our girl at "home" with us was a bit surreal. We have been waiting for this precious babe for so long and now here she is. J is a very helpful big brother. He takes great pride in preparing her bottles and checking in on her. He is experiencing some growing pains as he learns to share mom and dad and be patient with a sick and adjusting sibling but he continues to tell us how excited he is that Ada is joining us forever tomorrow.

.....That's right TOMORROW! Tomorrow morning when we pick up Ada it will be for good. We plan on making a few visits back to the baby home while we are here but her new home will be with us. It is overwhelming to think....and I am not the 14 month old with the total life change on the brink. Tomorrow night will be the first night we all sleep under the same roof. Amazing! Thursday afternoon is our court date.....as I explained to J....we know that she is already ours forever, but sometimes grown ups need special forms to remind them that. :-)

For those who continue to pray for us here are some ways to direct your prayers:

1) Pray for Ada as she adjusts to a new family. Pray that we would have wisdom in how to be sensitive to her needs and that attachment would form between the four of us.

2) Pray for Jake as he adjusts to his new role as big brother. Pray for wisdom and patience as we seek to meet the needs of both of our children as they adjust to so many changes.

3) Continue to pray for our health. Ada is on the mend it would be wonderful if during this time of transition we were able to stay healthy.

4) Pray for the legal side of this adoption. The judge is apparently very pro adoption so we have little concern for the actual court proceedings. We have heard of some changes in documentation for citizenship. Pray that things would continue to go smoothly so that we might return to Canada when expected.

Thank you for all your encouraging words. Being so far away from family and friends they are much appreciated.