Gotcha moment!

The call came about 2:15 and we had to be in the lobby at 2:30 to start the drive back to the government building for the second time. When we pulled up our facilitator pointed out that their car was there already. We got our cameras ready as we climbed the 3 flights of stairs. When we got up there again we could see that the room we had been waiting in earlier had some people in there. Hearts pounding we were all walking pretty quickly. As you can see from the photos its a room of glass windows. As we got closer I could see he was sitting in someone’s lap and his little head with knit hat was bouncing. When we got even closer I got a quick peak of his sweet little face and I could not believe my eyes! His little lip was repaired already!!! We had no idea they had done surgery. Below are the few pictures that we had of Hudson before we met him!

Here is the very first picture of our son that I ever saw! The day his referral was presented to us this is the photo I saw when I opened the email. We thought it was adorable that he was laying on a soccer pillow since we are such a soccer family.

This one you can really see how open his palate was.

This was my favorite picture that we got. Now that I have met him it really does look the most like him.

When we got into the room he was happily sitting in a man's lap. The boys and I walked over to the couch where he was sitting. Tom graciously catching the moment on the video camera. Hudson looked us over as I sat next to him and then started to get a little upset. When I reached to hold him he started up into a full cry, sad, loud cry. He didn't stop for what felt like a VERY long time. We think it was almost an hour before he calmed down.

We tried everything. Toys, snacks, walking, rocking, playing ball, singing... no luck. The boys started to give up and play catch with the ball that we had brought for him. Once when Trevor tossed it pretty hard at Garrett he mad a big "ugh" sound. That made Hudson laugh a little. So the boys continued to toss it at each other and dramatically catching it pretending they were hit hard. Each time Hudson laughed a little louder. Finally! He stopped crying and started smiling and laughing. That was it then, the boys won him over. Then they played and played. And this time when we left to go back to the hotel... WE GOT TO TAKE OUR HUDSON WITH US! Praise GOD!