The call!

We knew our time was getting close. Nonetheless, when I answered the phone and was notified, "You have a referral!" I was rocked. When I first saw the information about OUR baby, I started crying. The crying didn't stop for a few days. Neal was out of town on a work retreat, but I immediately sent him copies of the photo and read him all of the information I was given. When I picked Perrin up from school, I told him "I got a very exciting phone call this afternoon" and he immediately said, "A baby!". He had lots of questions about how old she would be, what she would eat, what she would play with, and what we would name her. Next we informed our parents, and then our immediate family. We had decided to hold off telling others until we had a better understanding of when we would get our baby. But, Perrin decided to tell his class the next day and we knew we needed to go public. The following is the email we sent:

Subject: Fawn Hopping Mouse or Demindoff Bushbaby?

Those are Perrin's name picks for the baby referral we received
earlier this week!!!! (the exclamations for the referral, not the name picks).

She was born 1/19/09 in the Southern part of China. We will need to
wait 7 -8 weeks before we can go get her, and then at least 10 days in
country (this is pretty standard). We hope to be home by New Years at
the latest. We don't have the translated information for her yet (later this week), but she looks to be female and healthy and we are very excited. Very.

We have not picked a name for her and hopefully we will get Perrin away from

the Encyclopedia of Animals book before the naming goes any further.

I apologize for the group email but our plan to slowly and personally
spread the news was shot down when Perrin decided he wanted to tell his 1st grade
class immediately (tomorrow). We are happy he is excited to share the good news even if it isn't on our time frame! We want to keep things low key, but are so happy to share our long awaited
addition to the family.


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