Have you seen her!

"Have you seen her?" Says Pat, my adoption agent. (And of course then all I can think of is MC Hammer and that song he used to sing, "Have you seen her, Tell me have you seen her"!) 

However, she's referring to the most precious Indian girl that I will lovingly call daughter one day!!! 

And here's how it happened: I was at work, an ordinary kinda day, then "bam", the phone rings!Phone  ringing, Usually not too exciting but, Thursday I went from putting in a catheter to having a baby in seconds!! Okay that sounds wierd, so just know that I work in Urology so catheters are a normal thing but having a baby out of the blue.....not normal!! 

My adoption agent Pat calls and says I have you a little girl! She tells me that she is a little older than what we thought we would get and she has some medical problems. I will tell you that for a split second I was kinda sad cause I think most young couples who adopt, just naturally want a perfectly healthy little bitty baby. But that split second passed & then I just fought & fought tears of joy. I mean I'm at work & I am not an emotional sort, I do not like to cry & most definitely not in front of others. So after hyperventilating I go back to work for the next few hours, hoping not to harm any patient cause my mind is surely not on work, it's on "my daughter". Could she be the one? Is this it?

So my hubbie, Erin & I tell our kids that they may have found Neena!! And that night we sit down to read her file. The only paper that tells us anything about a child that I could be putting to bed all warm & snugly with her brothers & sister!

So here's what I find out: Her Hindu name is Simran, which means gift from God, her birthday is October 27,2009, she's lived in an orphanage in Delhi,india since birth. The papers say she was dropped off at hospital (in a "Palna". It's a cradle so people can put unwanted babies in there) and had at least 3 fractured bones & sepsis, that she was basically in and out of the hospital with sickness her first year of life. And they diagnosed her with a genetic disease called osteogenesis Imperfecta. That specific disease can range in severity but it basically makes your bones very fragile susceptible to fractures. They think hers is mild. So now comes the questions, we have sooo many!! We don't know if she suffered trauma at birth or if someone tried to harm her before dropping her off at the hospital? Does she know any English? When can we come get her? Does she walk & run normally? What does she eat? What's her personality? When can we come get her? And when can we come get her????? 

At this point we had never seen a picture. Pat did not want us to see her and then decide we didn't want her because of the medical & feel bad. So she sends me the picture & texts me, "Have you seen her?" And I am in love!

Now, we are waiting......yes, more waiting. Eighteen months of waiting to find her now waiting to see if she's ours and then waiting to go get her!!!! I've never been more excited to wait!!!

 And when she comes home, this is what she will come home to: a twin brother Logan, since they are both 3 & both have a cleft chin, I decided I would refer to them as "the twins", a big brother who will taekwondo anyone who says she's "Imperfecta", a big sister who will be mommy #2 & her roomie/bestie, a mommy & daddy who searched the world for her & has loved her since they were 16, grandparents to spoil her, take her to the beach for the first time, ride her on the 4 wheeler for hours, cousins who will adore her & have sleep overs, aunts & uncles to take her to movies & frozen yogurt, friends who pray for her...........Your family waits Neena! With Hope we wait! And we still pray, Let today be the day.... But it's changed from let us find you today to let us bring you home today!