Friday The 13th of April...Five Years Ago

April 13, 2007 happened to be a Friday, just like this year.  There were big plans for that day that had to have some last minute changes but in the end it was PERFECT.

It was a cloudy and cold spring day.  It has been a very rainy, dreary week.  The window shade was pulled down in PICU room 7 as a 5 month old baby boy lay paralized and sedated in his hospital bed hooked up to IV's and a feeding pump as a ventillator, attached to his newly placed tracheostomy tube, was breathing for him.  The occasional beeping and alarming of equipment became background noise.  He lay there seemingly unaware of what was going on around him.   

Later that day, in a confrence room across the hall from the PICU, a very important court hearing was scheduled to take place.  In true Colorado fashion a spring snow storm had prevented most of the necessary players from traveling over the mountains to get to the hospital.  The morning became a whirlwind of phone calls and noteries and faxes so the hearing could still take place. 

Around 4:00pm a group of people gathered in a court room ready to procede.  Over 200 miles away I nervously waited a phone call so that I could participate.  The nurse stood guard to make sure that we had no unnecessary interruptions.  The phone rang and the proceding began.  On one end was the Judge, the caseworkers, the guardian ad lidum, and grandma and on the other end of the phone call was me, Milo & grandpa.  After all the formalities of an adoption hearing at approximately 4:20pm I became the legal parent to a very special little boy who's future was uncertain. 

After hanging up the phone I rolled up the shade in the window and watched as the overcast sky suddenly broke free revealing the brillient blue sky and warm sunshine.  No doubt God was smiling down on us that day!

Pictures were taken to commerate this special day.



Me, Milo & Grandpa



After securing the official Adoption Decree my mom drove up to be with us for the weekend while my dad and I ducked out for a little celebratory dinner at a near by restaurant.  While we were gone Milo's wonderful nurse Debbie was hard at work.




Milo's footprints April 13, 2007

 



You are forever mine & I am forever yours




 I will always cherish the kindness and thoughtfullness of the staff at Children's Hospital on this day.



April 2012, 5 years old



HAPPY 5th ADOPTION DAY MY LITTLE MIRACLE!!