Thankful for All the Little Things

We know our heavenly Father had these and many other details all planned out for us.

Here are some thanksgiving highlights:

-He is healthy and growing. He is 5lbs 1oz.

-Met him Three years to the day from when we sent in our profile book

-We had no sicknesses when we were matched

-Van tires had a slow leak and tire place fixed the morning we left

-Adoption match fees came in about $1,000 less than expected so we used those for our first trip expenses

-Traveling mercies for February

-Nurses and doctors at hospital in NICU

-Health and protection for Baby

-Jan 19 Kate was sick but she recovered quickly before our match

-Aunt and Uncle helped watch E on first Friday there

-Church in Boise, we had several connections

-Ronald McDonald House: free to stay, 1 block from hospital

-Good weather in February so we could travel easily across the state

-the first month he shared a room with another baby who required the best nurses so Pilgrim was getting the best of the best care

-He is in the 50 percentile in growth

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Help Support Our Adoption

February 2022 We have been matched! Read More Here Our current need is donations for travel and legal fees. The baby boy is about 6 hours away and so Jesse is travelling every weekend to see Kate and the baby. The baby is in the NICU and he will be there until about middle of April. So Jesse will be travelling about 10 times over the next few months. Helping cover the travel fees would be a great blessing to us. We estimate travel fees to be $1000. To finalize the adoption we will need to hire a lawyer to set up all the paperwork for the court. This will happen in about 10-12 months. We are estimating that legal fees will be about $2000. We are very thankful for all the support we have received. Thanks to all the many donations! Ways to Donate: GoFundMe page PayPal: paypal.me/jessesumpter Cash App: $JesseSumpter Check: Use Contact Form at bottom for Mailing Info Ronald McDonald House Kate Sumpter #203, 139 East Warm Springs Avenue, Boise, Idaho 83712

Welcome

Jesse and Kate (and Epiphany!) are thankful that you are here. We are starting the adoption process in our home state of Idaho and we wanted to keep our friends updated on our process. We are still working on our home study. We are also trying to raise some more funds. The average cost of a domestic adoption in Idaho is about $24,000. We have about half of that. If you are interested in donating, more information will be coming soon. Please be praying that the whole process will go smoothly. Thanks!

Meeting Our Son in the NICU

March 4, 2022 Update We walked into the NICU on Friday, February 4 to meet our little boy. We had walked into a hospital before when we adopted our daughter so we were familiar with things. But walking into a hospital is like walking into a strange world. Everyone is dressed in greens and blues, lots of new gadgets that beep, lots of different codes to give to get through, automatic doors that have to be opened from the inside. But everyone is cheerful. People were very kind to us. The NICU is on the second floor. We had to go through a Covid checkpoint at the hospital entrance but it was super easy. Our caseworker was with us. We then rode the elevator up to the second floor. We walked through a long hallway to the NICU. On the walls are lots of pictures of NICU babies who were born early and have now grown up. Each one is a picture of the little tiny baby and the grown up child at 10 years old or 15 years old. They call it the wall of hope. I tried to imagine how small the little ba...

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