I posted on Facebook, but not everybody I know is on Facebook, so I'll post here as well.
Alexander Mikail was born Sunday night at 9:30pm. He weighed 8lbs, 11oz and is 21 1/4 inches long. He's perfect! He's beautiful! And he isn't really going to be ours for a while. We were able to bring him home from the hospital yesterday, so we have custody (technically LDSFS has the legal custody) for now, but the issues with the birthfather are quite far from being resolved at this point. He's (unfortunately unofficially) refusing to accept the paperwork that has been repeatedly sent to his house now for almost two months. It's amazing how a guy can "not be home" that often, and given the nature of the paperwork, he has to be the one to sign for it so that we can go to court and validify that he really did get it. As of today, we probably have at least another month before we'll know if we'll be able to keep Zander, or if we'll have to get on a plane and fly him back to Colorado. We've been praying hard, and we keep getting the very distinct answer that everything is going to turn out exactly as it should, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we'll be the ones to keep him. How am I holding together at all? I'm worried, but not frantic, which some part of me is still insisting that I should be.
Zander and Kaalam have the same birthmother and they look EXACTLY the same. Zander has darker hair, and a darker skin tone, but if it weren't for that, I'm not sure I'd be able to tell their baby pictures apart. Zander even has the same "superhero" cleft chin that Kaalam has. They get that from their birthmom. I'll post some pictures, hopefully this afternoon. My computer is still refusing to acknowledge my camera. It's driving me nuts.
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