And now we grow again

I will admit that I have tears while I write this. Our adoption agency CWA www.cwa.org has a list of waiting children that came out months ago that we found our waiting daughter, age 12, on but at the same time a little girl on the list caught my eye, and my heart. She is 8 years old (she is 48 inches tall and 44 pounds) and her special need is club foot.But it was just her little smirky smile and the way she holds herself and her eyes and her ears...her little hair cut and the look in her eye that just stayed in my heart. We talked about both little girls and the little girl that is 12 made the match into our family. The older girls had asked for a sister to be close in age to them....but still I have e-mailed CWA every week or so asking about "little #23" and Carol would answer "still praying for a family for her" and then one day a family did ask for her...but then about the same time Claude asked me about her and I said I was still praying for her family to find her to adopt her...and so then he said how about we ask if we can adopt both girls at the same time...we had our names put on her list and then if the other family said no we would then be able to discuss if both could be adopted. So on New Years Eve we received an e-mail that said "ok, here's your chance!" and we received her files and sent off family photos and paperwork and more paperwork to the contact of CWA so she could present us to the people in charge in China for special permission to adopt both girls at the same time. After countless times of wondering if this could actually happen, "But these things I plan won't happen right away. Slowly, steadily,surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, be patient! For it will surely take place. It will not be late by a single day." Habakkuk 2:3, last Friday my phone rang and it was Carol from CWA saying China said YES! So today we are Letter of Intent to China to adopt the second little girl...we will be able to have both sets of paperwork travel together so we will only travel to China one time but bring home both little girls! Whole lotta pink going on at the Coats house! Please keep our family and all of these waiting children in your prayers....