Today is Grant's 6th birthday! Our brown hair, brown eyed baby boy.
It has been an incredible journey for this mom and dad to be parents to these kids. We can remember anxiously waiting for the call from the adoption agency back in January 2003. Many of you remember it too. (Yes, Abby & Scott we remember our last childless dinner, not knowing how our lives would change:) We had a few times when we were picked for a child and then it fell through. It was heartbreaking, so we tried not to get our hopes up and almost took our names off the list. Then we received the call about Grant on 1/21/03. We were home that evening and couldn't believe a baby boy was born that day and would we consider it? We, of course, said YES. I can never describe the feeling of not being pregnant and then being an instant mom. Let's just say it is VERY emotional. Grant stayed in the hospital until we could bring him home on Valentine's Day. The 3 weeks before we brought him home were crazy at the Cooper house. We had 3 emotional baby showers- neighbors, work and family. Our house in NW Portland filled up with baby stuff. Folks dropping stuff off at the door, high chairs, cribs, carseats, oh my. We kept thinking we need all this for a little bitty baby?
We had many visits to Washington to see him and the first time Gary held him, he knew this was it! It scared me, but we both knew that this son had grown in our hearts. What a special child Grant has been to us. He was a little fussy baby, but we didn't know any better being our first child, so we went with it. Lots of our friends would come over and take turns holding him and singing to him trying to quiet him down. :)
Grant has a great smile and loves to make people laugh. When you give our boys pictures to color Ian will always color everything black ( we hope he is not going to be gothic or need therapy:) and Grant will color in pink, orange, purple, yellow... He loves art and music. He is getting a guitar for his birthday today. (shh) He also loves swimming and bike riding.
We are so thankful to God for this child that started our parenthood journey.
Happy Birthday Grant! WE LOVE YOU!
3 comments:
OH...I got chills reading that story. God is so good. And Grant is soo cute!!
Hi Debbie,
Thanks so much for sending me a link to your blog. I have really enjoyed getting to know you through mom's group and now I get to follow your cute family through your blog. Happy Birthday to your little one!
Cori Bland
Thanks Abby and Cori!
Grant had a great birthday and loves his guitar!
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