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I cannot hide it any longer, as I have been sick for too long. So here you go–our 11-week-old baby. (The baby is upside down with its head to the right.)

As you know from a previous post, we had planned to adopt. In February I awoke in the middle of the night and prayed the Bible story of Hannah and Samuel back to God, knowing that He could do for us what He did for Hannah if He wanted to. I fell asleep after this prayer in peace, knowing that God would do in our lives what is best for us and what would bring Him the most praise.

We went forward with the adoption process, gaining adoption approval on March 9 of this year. Three days later, I became quite sick, and a couple of days after that we found out that God had miraculously answered our prayers and has given us a biological child, who we will meet sometime around November 1. After nearly three years of marriage. God has chosen to answer our prayers. We cannot explain it apart from Him. Potentially, there were many children we could have had, but this very child is the one God wanted us to have right now. God is so good, and we are amazingly blessed. (We would still like to adopt, but we have put that on hold temporarily.)

Our baby is a wiggle worm, never staying still for a second (which is why we couldn’t get any shots of the legs). “He” is going to be just like his father