Our biggest news right now is that Sadie's birthparents are both in jail after being served their indictments for the adoption fraud. We have been working with the commonwealth attorney to figure out what the plea bargain will be, if any, and working through Janie (the birthmom) being on home incarceration because (guess what?) she is pregnant AGAIN! And not only is she pregnant, but 7 months pregnant! She must have gotten pregnant 3 months after delivering the baby she didn't place with us. I absolutely know that she was and/or is working with an agency to receive money again. She must think this is her new career. So, Jeff and I feel pretty confident that they need to serve some jail time. Obviously, they have not learned their lesson yet. It really breaks my heart. She has also been calling us collect over the weekend. We have not accepted those calls. We believe that she is probably desperate and trying to offer us this new baby so that we will drop the charges against her. We would be interested in adopting this new baby, but not at the price of dropping the charges. We are not into baby selling or bribes! The sentence for their crime could be anywhere between 10-20 years. Ouch. We still haven't landed on what the offer will be. The attorney really wants to take it to trial because he feels they will get the most jail time that way, but I am not feeling super comfortable with going to trial and testifying in front of them. Mainly because we still have Sadie and need to explain all of this to her one day and we also don't want to burn bridges with them completely. We still have the slim hope that MAYBE one day they will reform. I know it is doubtful, but with God all things are possible! Love always hopes and as crazy as it sounds, I do still love Janie. It is definitely a love that come only from God. Their pre-trial is on February 11th, so please pray that we have wisdom in all of the decisions we will need to make regarding their case.
On a more cheerful note, I am definitely enjoying feeling Keller kick like crazy. Sometimes, it makes me well up out of gratitude to God for allowing me this gift of pregnancy. We just went back to the OB to get some more pictures of Keller's heart this morning and it looks like everything is great.
We started our birthing classes this past Saturday and the first one went well. Other than the video that we had to watch with, as Jeff says, too many naked women in it. I think he is planning on opting out on the rest of those. Grateful that I have a man who only wants to see his wife naked! : ) I will have to say that it was a bit liberal with the nudity. Not just for learning purposes. Anyway, it was great to get some exercises to work on and relaxation techniques to practice. Although, have I actually done any of these since Saturday? No. And, of course, I am supposed to practice every day.
I have been exercising fairly regularly though. Woo hoo! I do a lot of water aerobics at night and even tried a step class that about knocked me over. It was probably a bit too much for me, being pregnant. I was huffing and puffing and generally made somewhat a fool out of myself. The instructor had everyone laying on their bellies at the end of the class to stretch our quads, so I had to modify a lot of various portions like that during the class and couldn't keep up with a lot of it. I'm pretty athletic and have never had trouble keeping up before, so this was a new humbling experience for me. Especially since you still can't really tell that I am pregnant in most of my workout clothes. I just look chunky! All worth it, of course! : )
Here is one picture from this morning...
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Tracey
