Sebastian Arie Leeflang

On July 16th, the girls and I were at Costco picking up some orange juice at 6 pm when we got the call that will have changed our lives forever!

"We have a baby born situation, and need to know if you are interested by tomorrow morning at 7 am."

Even though we have been anticipating this moment for a long time, we were completely in shock. (When signing up for adoption, we thought a birth mother was going to choose us, we were going to meet her, we were going to wait anxiously for a couple of months, and then go to the hospital when she goes into labor. We never thought that a baby would already be born?!)

That evening, the adoption agency called again, read through a slew of information about a little boy that was born earlier that day (how tall his parents were, what nationality was, what his parents liked doing as hobbies, if he had siblings... ) and we were still in shock. It was completely insane, exciting, scary... all of those emotions at the same time and more.

Later that  night at 10:30, Steve and I just stared at each other- after a lot of prayer to make the right decision, we felt that this was our little guy!

The next morning, we packed ourselves into the van and drove 2 1/2 hours to Madera, walked into the maternity ward, and saw this little baby for the first time. It was surreal. Words cannot describe these 24 hours.

Luckily for us, they allowed him to be discharged that evening, and we drove home with him that night! Ah!!

For the past two weeks, we have cacooned ourselves away spending time our little miracle... and survived while Steve was in Germany for five days...

The adoption won't be final until 26 days and 4 hours... but we are trying to focus on this time that we have with him, hoping that he will be ours forever!!

Here's a couple of pics of this handsome little man: