The name game

Oh the name game. For anyone who has followed our adoptions, you know that we play the name game but we are finished... The results are... There are no hanging chads....

Sophia (Sophie) Allyn Gayne-- Named after my father Steven Allen
Lucas (Luke) Jacob Gaynes- Named after David's father Laury Jay
Gabriel (Gabe) Logan Gaynes- Named after David's GREAT Grandmother Gertrude and my Grandfather Luis
Lee (Lee) Isaac Gaynes- Named after David's Maternal Granparents Lillian & Irving

Now & Then part Two

Always into trouble

Now...& Then

Well its been almost 10 months sinc we received our referrall look how they've changed

Obsessing

Well no new news. We got pre-approval for Luke, but he's not in PGN yet. And 4 days till Sophie's birth mother is supposed to come in for DNA.
It seems all I do now is work and wait for news. Everytime I hear the ding that something new has come into my inbox I pray that it is an email from my agency giving good news. SOMETHING! Sophie will be 18 months old on the 19th. The poor girl does not know her family. She was dropped off by her birth mother at 9 months and now thinks her foster mother is her mother. And she hasn't seen David in 8 months! The foster mother said she shows Sophie our picture every morning, and they kiss our picture before they leave. Last time I was down (4 months ago), she recognized me, but will she recognize me as her mother when we finally get to take her home?
And Luke, thankfully was given up at birth, but just recently had his foster mother changed. He will 10 months the 29th. He was only 6 months old the last tine I saw him, he will have NO CLUE who David and I are. We have missed every milestone in his little life.
The stress of this is definatly taking its toll. David and I both have extremely short tempers, have trouble sleeping, focusing, and feel ready to give up.
But we won't give up. Sophie and Luke are our children, you never give up on your children. Whatever we have to do to get them home we will do. Whoever we have to piss off to make sure they are safe until we get them home, we will. We are on a war path to get our children home!

Pictures..Pictures..Pictures..

Sophia @ 17 months Luke @ 8 months

Luke at 8 months

This is a picture of Luke at his DNA appointment. His birth mother is holding him, I cut her out of the picture to protect her rights. Guatemala requires DNA to be done to make sure the child given up isn't stolen. DNA on Luke was a 99.9% a match! We received pre-approval from the US Embassy which means our case can go on to the Guatemalan Courts (PGN) once we have the social worker interview. PGN is the last step till they are officially ours. Unfortunatly, they are having trouble locating Sophie's birth mother, but they have hopefully set the date for Juen 14th to have her DNA and Social worker interview done!