This just in…
Today, while I was at work, I got a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize. I silenced it, then realized, it might be Taiwan. I called back and ran into the teacher’s office. Ted Skiles answered saying it was time to discuss a baby. He wanted to know if it was a good time of if he should call back. I told him it was fine. We have been waiting—anticipating this, I couldn’t wait another second! (Brandon is out of state and we had discussed a plan for when/if we got the call while apart.)
Ted said, We have a baby girl here. She was born March 13th at 6:20AM—on my birthday. She was 6 lbs, 5 oz. and, let’s see here, 20 in. long. So she was tall and thin.” Through joyful tears, I exclaimed that she sounded perfect and we are both tall and thin! He proceeded to tell me more information about her background and birth parents. I listened intently. Then he paused and asked, “So, do you want her?” Surprised, I exclaimed, “YES! Yes, of course, yes, we want her. Yes.”
It took me over an hour to reach Brandon. I sent the message through the leadership school’s department that he needed to call me because I had urgent news. When he called, I told him we had a baby. Then I told him we had a baby girl. As any loving Daddy would, he choked up and told someone on the other end, “It’s a baby girl!”
Meet our little Princess, Mei Li…