OMG BABY! I CAN HAZ!!!!
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marydellOur new son Charlie was born on Saturday! He is Chinese, born here in America--his birth parents chose us partly because of our involvement in the China adoption process. All of the reasons we initially chose Chinese international adoption ended up making us a perfect fit for this little guy. This is a fully open adoption--we spent an emotional hour with his extremely wonderful birth parents getting to know them before they made the difficult choice to place him with us. His name Charlie comes from his birth parents; I believe it's an approximate homophone of his Chinese name, Jialin.
Charlie is perfect in our eyes, but he was born without his left forearm. For this reason we've given him the middle name Nelson, after Admiral Nelson, our favorite one-armed hero. (Apparently there's a Transformer with a gun for an arm but I vetoed his new daddy's request to name him Shockwave).
This opportunity came to us the day after I returned home from 4th Street Fantasy Con, severely lacking in sleep and high on days of writerly bliss. When we got the call saying to come to Indianapolis, we flew around the house packing like crazy and going "oh my god oh my god!" I was so excited I carelessly packed the checkbook in the wrong bag, and since agency and lawyer fees would be due at placement we couldn't leave until I found it. "Lawyers, Guns and Money" got played in the car a lot on the way down (thank you, PNH, for playing it at 4th Street and giving me the right earworm for the event). But ultimately everything worked out perfectly.
Introducing Charles Nelson Jialin Dell - our Charlie:
Photoset Here
Charlie is perfect in our eyes, but he was born without his left forearm. For this reason we've given him the middle name Nelson, after Admiral Nelson, our favorite one-armed hero. (Apparently there's a Transformer with a gun for an arm but I vetoed his new daddy's request to name him Shockwave).
This opportunity came to us the day after I returned home from 4th Street Fantasy Con, severely lacking in sleep and high on days of writerly bliss. When we got the call saying to come to Indianapolis, we flew around the house packing like crazy and going "oh my god oh my god!" I was so excited I carelessly packed the checkbook in the wrong bag, and since agency and lawyer fees would be due at placement we couldn't leave until I found it. "Lawyers, Guns and Money" got played in the car a lot on the way down (thank you, PNH, for playing it at 4th Street and giving me the right earworm for the event). But ultimately everything worked out perfectly.
Introducing Charles Nelson Jialin Dell - our Charlie:
Photoset Here
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Date: 2008-06-27 03:00 am (UTC)Enjoy the new baby! He'll grow up so fast... and he looks so cute!
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Date: 2008-06-27 03:00 am (UTC)We are, as I type, sitting in the hospital with S on a low-level pitocin drip, expecting RJEB some time tomorrow. Babies all around!
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Date: 2008-06-27 03:28 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-06-27 03:41 am (UTC)So, so happy for you. He's beautiful.
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Date: 2008-06-27 04:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-27 04:52 am (UTC)::dancing the happy dance for the Dell family::
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Date: 2008-06-27 12:49 pm (UTC)Congratulations new Mom and Dad!
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Date: 2008-06-27 01:38 pm (UTC)(1) Babies are more resilient than you think.
(2) Catch what sleep you can.
(2a) Baby boys can aim.
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Date: 2008-06-27 01:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-27 02:01 pm (UTC)What?
Oh.
WooHooh!!!
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Date: 2008-06-27 03:24 pm (UTC)Yay!
Date: 2008-06-27 04:24 pm (UTC)Sarah (From ML)
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Date: 2008-06-28 05:46 pm (UTC)(Sam Kelly, from ML.)
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Date: 2008-06-28 11:37 pm (UTC)yay! congratulations! woo!
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Date: 2008-06-29 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-29 04:52 am (UTC)(Met you at 4th Street, while you and Betsy were talking about adoption, ironically enough!)
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Date: 2008-06-29 08:11 am (UTC)Harriet (from ML)
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Date: 2008-06-30 01:50 am (UTC)More joy, then.
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