The story began here...

To begin let's back up to June 1, 2009. Our cousins are missionaries who are also an adoptive family. They returned home to Ethiopia at the beginning of June. Upon returning home they learned that they would be able to have a social worker come out within the week. Adoption can be tricky when you are a US citizen living outside of the country and adopting from the country you are in. Having a social worker in the country was very exciting and an opportunity to jump on. Once this visit happened they could be considered to be able to foster kids if the need came up. They also were allowed to have their own daughter come live with them now.

A few days after this the orphanage they work with told them the story of this preemie baby boy. He had a nanny but for some reason she was going to have to leave and they needed someone to step up and care for him. Our cousins spent a lot of time in prayer over the next few days and determined that God really wanted them to foster him.

On June 15, 2009 we received a call that our cousins were fostering a 4 week old baby who weighed less than 4 lbs. We were asked to pray simply for his survival and that God would work in and through him. I sent out an e-mail to many friends to pray for this baby and for his forever family. I prayed that we would know how to help. I also prayed that if we were to be his forever family that Randy would bring up the topic first. Little did we know...