Thursday, August 23, 2012

Emma Update

I realize it has been a long time since I have posted on here. Life has certainly gotten busier! I thought I should give everyone an update though on how things are going. I just read through my last post and cried more tears as I relived the emotions and goodness of God. Hard to believe that more than two months have come and gone!
First of all an update on the status of the adoption. We have done pretty much everything we need to do on our part except pay our last installment. The paperwork has been filled out and signed and now we are waiting on a lawyer to get a certain paper (I can't remember what it is called) that is needed as the birthdad has not signed the papers to release Emma. He has agreed to the adoption but not signed the papers. He is considered unfit to be a parent and so it is just a matter of the lawyer getting that legally stated on a piece of paper so that our papers can all be submitted. With summer holidays and appointments having to be made with judges and such it is looking like the adoption won't be offical until around the end of October. I would so love it if everything was signed and sealed by Thanksgiving! (The middle of October for my American friends:)) What a wonderful thing to be thankful for! We will be so relieved when everything is said and done. We know she won't be taken back but how amazing it will be to have her officially be a Sakaluk!
Life with Emma is everything I have longed for and so much more. She is such a good little girl who is very content and happy and healthy. A true snuggler which I love! She is smiling lots and finding her voice and wanting to stand when we hold her and just growing so quickly! She had her two month checkup this week and she is perfectly healthy! She is now 22" long and 11lbs! Her hair is coming in so dark and looks like it will be thick and I am looking forward to braids and curls and barrettes and ponytails! She has captured the hearts of everyone in our families and has been able to spend quite a bit of time with grandparents and some of her aunts, uncles and cousins this summer. She already loves to be read to and has quite the conversations with anyone who will sit and talk with her.
I have felt overwhelmed on many days. Not with how life is now so much as with the unspeakable blessing it is to be Emma's mommy. I have felt overwhelmed so many times that God chose me to raise this beautiful little girl and how I long for her to grow to know how much God loves her and how much He has already been at work in her life. As much as I want her to be happy and healthy and to follow her dreams and all of that I so much more want for her to know and love the One who has not only taken care of her thus far but who knit her together and created her to be exactly who she is. I sat one day and spent time praying over her and the word "joy" kept coming to me. Not so much to pray that Emma would have joy but that she does have joy and that joy is going to bubble up out of her and touch so many people and change so many lives. I could see her in a couple years running around and smiling and spreading joy everywhere she went and touching every life she came in contact with. May it be true. May God be so present and so real that His joy just bubbles up out of her and she shares it with all she comes in contact with. God truly has His hand on her and I pray for so much wisdom in raising her, that the same Lord who has entrusted her to me will enable me to raise her to be the amazing young woman that I know He is going to call her to be. She is a treasure, a gift, a responsibility, a blessing that I can not believe God has entrusted me with. I will and do love her with as much love as my heart can hold. We are truly a blessed family!