Some wonderful reactions to our news!

The reactions we have received when we have told people our news has been wonderful! It is so great that people are almost as excited as we are!

When I told Eliza (Madeline was at camp when we found out), she screamed! She also picked up the phone and started calling everyone she could think of. How fun! Thank goodness we have a fax phone, too, so we could make calls at the same time. Of course, our first calls were to Steve and Madeline, who were thrilled to finally get the news(we had been waiting all morning!).

Steve called his brother, Bob, and told him and I left a message on the answering machine for Kirsten and our nephews. I said that we were really excited. Kirsten said that when Andy (our oldest nephew) heard that we were excited, his response was "not as excited as we are!" I love that! Apparently, the boys have been wanting a male cousin for a long time now (they only have 2 other female cousins besides our girls, so they really wanted another boy in the family to balance it out!). Kirsten thanked us for accomodating them! :-) We were more than happy to!

Katie thought about it for a little while. She is happy to have a brother (she has always had fun playing with boys and girls, so it never really mattered to her). After this all sunk in for her she informed me that Zach is Dad's "first human boy company." (We used to have a male German shepherd...). Steve is very excited, too, making plans for swimming lessons and ball games with Zachary's cousins.

We have also received Zach's first official gift from our friends Nic, Megan, Corinn and Noah! (Thank you so much!) It really is a blessing to see how thrilled our friends are for us, too.

Well, the Letter of Intent (LOI) will arrive at Bethany the beginning of the week. Once they send it to China, our wait for further instructions from China officially begins. Now for painting bedrooms, building lofts and bunk beds, and other fun stuff that will help us pass the time until we get to meet our son!