As Cate Burwell would say, "We got our girl!"
We are so excited to announce that God has already answered our adoption prayers and brought little Rihanna to live with us. We heard about her situation a few weeks ago and started praying that we might become her "forever family", as they say in adoption world. We met her on Sunday and she and Cate and Will just fell in love with each other right away...as Troy said, "it was like they were separated at birth and are finally back together!"
Rihanna is a newly 3-year old. She is tall (Cate's size or taller!) with long legs and long fingers that seem made for playing basketball, if you ask me. She has a great, huge laugh. She calls us "Mama Cathy" and "Daddy Troy" and hopefully at some point will naturally shorten that to Mama and Daddy. She is bright, loves to sing, loves to ride her bike and play ball.
She moved in with us yesterday, and as a new mother of 3, I am already WORE OUT! It is kind of like kid-training...teaching Rihanna how our home works, and teaching Cate and Will how to respond to this new sister. We are trying to lay low and stay home a lot over the next 2-3 weeks so that we can all get used to this new life. Pray for us when you think about us! We have felt that doing something like this has been a "calling" that we have both had since before we ever even met, but that doesn't mean it is going to be easy, right?! Anyways, IF we ever make it out to a nice restaurant again (??!!), that will be our line... "Burwell, party of five!"