Maya's 1st Birthday Party

 

1/2 Way There. Maya's Weekly Photos 1-14

We received an email from our attorney yesterday that the Final Order for Termination of Parental Rights has been entered on our behalf! That means we're half way there. We are hoping we have a court date in the next couple months in order to finalize our adoption of Maya!

I wish I could take Maya's weekly photos with Stella like I did for Lincoln, but her Alligator will have to do. She's gotten so big so fast! At her 4 month appointment on Friday she was already 15 pounds!

100!

Glenn's great grandma turns 100 today! That is Lincoln and Maya's great Great grandma!!

We went to visit her last week and she asked not once, but 5 times, "Why is she this color?"

Oh to be 100! Next time she asks I'm telling her we feed Maya only chocolate milk! 😊

Big Brother Lincoln

Lincoln was already in bed the night we got home so he got to meet his little sister the next morning. He was interested at first and wanted to hold her, but only for about 2 seconds. Most of the time he wants to know where she is, but doesn't want anything to do with her. Especially when she is in my arms and he wants to be. A little jealous at times, but I think they will have a lot of fun playing together as she gets older!

 He is a good helper when he wants to be!

 These pictures took forever to take and required candy bribery.

Some turned out cute, but most looked like this:

 Baby toes!

Maya Jane

It has been a crazy couple of weeks! On Tuesday September 23rd, we got the call that mom was in labor!  Her due date wasn't for a week and we weren't expecting her to go early since she had just had an appointment on Monday the 22nd with no progress. Glenn hadn't even packed yet!

Glenn had just gotten to work so he wrapped up a few things, I called my girlfriend and she picked up Lincoln and we were off!

We got to Delaware around 2 pm and baby girl had been born while we were on the road at 11:07 am. We had gotten a phone call and were told she had a lot of hair, but we didn't know much else!

When we got to the hospital, we were told to wait for the social worker and then she had us wait even longer. It was a little agonizing knowing our baby girl was in the hospital and we just had to wait! The social worker met with the birth mom and then we had to sign a bunch of paperwork and finally we got to go meet her!

We walked in to the room and they placed her in my arms almost immediately! Hi, stranger, nice to meet you! She was 6 lb 11 oz and 18.5 inches. A little peanut.

The next 2 days were not what we had anticipated, but we didn't have a lot of expectations going in. We had a hotel room, but as it turns out, only Glenn stayed there. I stayed in the hospital room with our baby girl and the birthmother. Taking care of a little one comes back to you pretty quick, but it would have been nice to have Glenn there, too.

Everyone was discharged on Thursday afternoon and we took our baby girl back to our hotel. We couldn't go back to Virginia until all of the interstate paperwork had been approved. Somehow, we got a phone call on Friday afternoon that it was done. We were expecting a much longer wait, but they pushed it through quickly. We packed up the car and we were off!

Back home to my mom and a new big brother! Per Delaware law, birthmom has a 14 day revocation window. Meaning, yesterday, that period has ended and baby girl is ours. We still have a long legal process of making everything official, but Miss Maya Jane Smith is here to stay.