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This is Cooper and I full of excitement and surprise because WE GOT THE CALL!!!!  We have a beautiful four and a half month old baby girl in Ethiopia waiting to be part of our family. We were very much not expecting to get our referral right now because we aren't quite done with our dossier yet.  We know God's timing is perfect, so maybe He was telling us that we are the ones who needed to speed things up :)

I have frantically been trying to finish our dossier today.  I'm pretty much done now, but I will have to have our case worker look over everything tomorrow and then send it off to be state certified. We are trying to really hurry to get our dossier to Ethiopia as soon as possible.  The courts in Ethiopia are closed during the months of August and September, so we are hoping to get our paperwork turned in to the courts there before they close. If we are able to make that, then hopefully we could travel in October for our first trip.

I wish I could show you how gorgeous she is!  She has very light brown skin and big, beautiful brown eyes.  We have decided to name her Layla and we will keep her Ethiopian name (which I also won't share as she is not legally ours!) as her middle name.  I've been so distracted all day as I've been working on our paperwork, because I can't stop staring at her picture. What a precious gift from God!  

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