Fuego and I had our second "module" class tonight for adopting our first child!!

We have another seven classes to go before we're elligible as adoptive parents, and what a weird, awesome, and scary thought that is!

We've waited for so long for a baby to come that it's almost unreal that in a very new and exciting way, we're already five-months pregnant (though someone else is carrying our future child).

We've been working on paper work, writing autobiographies, getting finger-printed, submitting DMV reports, getting assigned a social worker, and last week we started the required nine weeks of classes that will end in our being put on the waiting list for a child.

Our home study comes up in about five weeks, and by the middle of March we'll begin the final waiting stage as elligible parents. (Whew! Biological Parents should have such a rigorous qualification process!)

Since our only restrictions were that the baby be under six-months old and have no severe disabilities, we'll most likely get to adopt an african-american baby boy, and we've been told that the wait is surprisingly short for parents like us who aren't specific about gender or race. Regardless of gender or race, we know that whatever child God intends for us is the one that will come home with us.

We couldn't be more excited =o)