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Thursday, July 19, 2007

DEDICATED TO MATTHEW SHANE


My brother and his wife adopted Matthew (domestic) in April . They originally had put there paperwork in to adopt a baby girl from China. But then one day they got a call for a domestic situation which was twin boys. They waited out the bmoms pregnancy and then a week before her due date she backed out. They were devastated. One week later they got a call about Matthew . They literally had one day to pack and fly out to get him. It was such a God thing because before they left to get him they decided that they were going to name him Shane . Well when they got there they found out his bmom had named him Matthew Shane - so they kept that. He was actually with this Bmom until they adopted him (the first 15 months) she had realized that she could no longer care for him --so he is having some major attachment issues but slowly getting better. We couldn't love him more and we are so glad that God chose him to be in our family .

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Matthew is such a doll. He has beautiful eyes!!! I'm praying the attachment and bonding turns around soon. That's never easy on either side of the factor.

Natalie C. said...

what an amazing name story...gave me chills