Gastonia-part 2

So we made it! I thought we might not, but we did. Our afternoon started with a bit of an emergency with Benjamin. Because Nate went to a Pastor's meeting yesterday, he didn't get to pick Benjamin up from school with the "early birds". Benjamin waited with me until Papa was to come and get him. However, walking back to my classroom with the fall breeze blowing something blew into his eye. Naturally, you rub it out so that's what he tried to do. In the process however he did so much more. The next thing I know he is screaming in pain and fear and he won't even let me touch him. I was helpless yet trying to do something to calm him down. At last, I just scooped him up and rushed home, calling Papa and Nate on the way to say meet at home and that there was a problem. Once there, Benjamin still didn't want us to touch him so we couldn't look at his eye. He kept his hand over it and kept saying over and over again, "This is the worst day ever!" Nate and I resorted to holding him down and prying his hand off of his eye. It was red, puffy, and watering profusely and then we realized that something else looked wrong. We couldn't see his top eyelashes....any of them. Nate pulled his eye open with Benjamin screaming to confirm our fear. His entire set of top lashes were up underneath his top lid!!! Every time he moved his eye, tried to blink, or see all he felt were his lashes scraping his eyeball and I suppose that is all he could see as well. GROSS! With the first attempt Nate got most of them out from under the lid. We gave Benjamin a break and then tried again. Success! It was awful in the midst of it, but we did get them out and once they were out he was fine. His eye stayed red and irritated but no permanent damage. WHEW! Then Nate and I were officially off to Gastonia. It was a great trip down, and about halfway there I finally came down off of my adrenaline high. We had a very open and honest conversation with our social worker and learned more about this process of adoption. She is a very sensitive lady and easy to talk with. We have just one more visit to share more about ourselves and our life and then we wait. Continue to pray for the birthmother and our baby. We want desperately for her to know Jesus' love through one of the biggest decisions of her life. it is our honor to be able to love this baby and his/her mom.