It's A Boy, Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We got home from Harrisburg, PA on Wednesday afternoon to find our mailbox full and inside a manila envelope from the Department of Immigration and Naturalization Services with our notice of approval to adopt outside the United States. I was so excited. I think everyone heard me. I rushed to the UPS Store to fax it to Carol. She confirmed it was what we thought and within a few minutes we had an email wanting to know if this child was the one for us. We said yes and here he is folks. Our son!!!!! His given name is Edgar Enrique Rivera and upon completion of the whole process in Guatemala and US we plan on renaming him John Clayton Aldridge. He was born on February 14, 2007. We have no medical until the age of 8 days when he weighed 8lbs 4 oz and 20.9 inches long. At 1 month 8 days he weighed 10lbs and 22 inches long. At 2 mos 8 days he was 11lbs 8 oz and 24.4 inches long. At 3 mos 7 day he was 13lbs 4 oz and 25.2 inches long. Now on the day we got referral at 4 months and 5 days he is 14lbs 4oz and 26.8 inches.
This is facts I know but the feelings that hit us when we saw his picture cannot be put in words. I have never known something this good. For the first time in my life I was in tears from being so happy. Matt and I are thrilled. We have a healthy baby boy who we will be bringing home sometime in the next 6-9 months. During that time alot of things will have to happen and they are just beginning. We will be waiting and praying for our son, his birthmom as she has to see him. hold him and then make the decision and voice it not once but 4 times throughout these coming months. The first step is a DNA match and that should happen hopefully in the next two to four weeks. However, even before that Matt and I are going to see our baby. We will be flying to Guatemala on July 8th and come back home on the 12th.
We are both so excited and at the same time want the wait to be over soon. We know it will be in God's time and for that we are waiting and preparing for the day we do bring our son home. Please be praying as this journey continues. It is a journey of ups and downs and twists and turns but one we undertake willingly to bring our son home.