Welcome Brody Emmanuel Grosso

Hi All ~ our journey is making serious progress - today we welcome Brody Emmanuel into our family.
Tonight (Wed 9/6/06) around 7:15 pm I checked my email, and there it was, a message from Lois at our adoption agency ~ all the message said was CALL ME, it's Wed night at 7!! OH MY GOSH - I ran and dialed like I've never dialed before.
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Lois: Hello
Julz: Hi Lois it's Julie Grosso
Lois : Are you ready for your little boy????

I swear there was screaming but it was probably all in my head!!!!

We saw Emmanuel's picture almost 2 months ago, we expressed interest in him but he was not officially "available". We let Lois know about 2 weeks ago that if he were available, we'd love to add him to our family.....we were told we'd know this friday 9/8/06. So because you need to take into account Africa Time - I figured it would be a few weeks - we were not expecting this tonight.

So after all the questions were answered, and some new ones came up ~ Lois is doing her part, and we are doing ours. So what is our part?? SHOPPING!!!!! We have about 6 months to get ready to welcome him home!

So here is what we know.
Brody Emmanuel is around 3 years old. Not exactly sure of this actual birthday yet, but still working on it. His biological father passed away, and his birth mother is unable to care for him.
Yes when we started this new chapter in our book we were interested in an infant, but sometimes your path changes, it becomes more of a choose your own adventure book, and at the end of each chapter there is a few choice, look at it as "behind door # 1" and not only were we totally drawn to him, after Lois and another adoption Mommy Anita said when they meet him a few weeks ago "we'd be the perfect family"!!

Looking forward to sharing all of this with you as our countdown begins!

Love,
Julz, Scott & Brody