We are now allowed to share who we are in the commitment phase for!
Here is his Reece’s Rainbow page with his PICTURE. http://reecesrainbow.org/seamus-1-1 His Internet name is “Seamus” which is pronounced “Shay-mus.” He was born in July of 2009 so he is older than Maggie. We think he’s going to be a perfect fit! He is trying to crawl and can sit on his own briefly, according to his file.
Aren’t his cheeks precious!? I can not wait to hold him and cover them with kisses!
Want to know something special? I had almost forgotten that in the midst of doubt, I had prayed God would “give us” the name of the child we were supposed to adopt. Brian also prayed that God would somehow give us the name of our child so that we’d know who we should adopt. Do you know what Seemus’ name came from? The name James. Do you know the name we chose for our first son when before we even conceived Anna? James Edward Davis. Wow. I love my God and how He cares about my little prayers!
We will need to make a final decision of what his name no later than immediately after our first trip this spring (May/June). For now, we are tired of shuffling through the five names he’s had for us. 🙂 So we’re calling him Simon for now, since it’s so close to Seymen in sound. I think Simon means “heard” and we feel like we heard God’s call to come and get him! Does anybody know what Seymen means? All I can find out is that it is of Turkish origin.
We are still waiting for our USCIS (immigration) approval to adopt, and now that we know who we are adopting, it is harder to wait. We are likely still a couple months out from getting that approval and then we will get our paperwork shipped overseas to Eastern Europe (EE) as quickly as possible so that we can go meet him and eventually give him a permanent home! God willing, this little boy will never see the inside of an asylum!!!
We are still hopeful that we will bring home a brother or sister with him at the same time, but we are at peace that God will take care of this detail if that’s what we’re supposed to do.
Throughout the ENTIRE process, we should not say his country of birth on the blog or in any public forum. We do not want to jeopardize any adoptions out of this country by publishing any sentiment about their country in a public forum.
I feel over the moon. I feel like we hit the jackpot. We are very confident and at peace that God is with us.
Congratulations! He is a doll! :o)
so so excited for you!!!!
Congratulations… I have to admit, when I seen him, I wanted him! I actaully blogged about how much I wanted him. But we havent even started the adoption process!
When I seen that his family had found him, I cried, because I felt so attached to him, before then, I had prayed and prayed, prayed for a miracle that he could be mine, or for someone to adopt him soon… I am so happy, I will for sure be following your journey!
I like the idea of “heard” on a different light — the idea of those who don’t have loud voices to call for help being heard! Kind of like Horton Hears a Who you know? “A persons a person no matter how small” (or how far away, or how developed, or any of that!) I don’t know if that makes sense 🙂 But anyway – I like any name – though it would be easier if people knew what to call him when they saw his name right away. Easier isn’t necessarily better though. 🙂 I’m sure you’ll choose fine.
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