Our new son was a product of a serious crisis pregnancy - his mother was in her early 30s, and already had an infant daughter born less than a year earlier than him, and an older daughter with Downs Syndrome already living with her grandmother. His father was in jail, and completely disavowed any responsibility for the child. But she decided not to kill him, and gave birth to him a few weeks early in February 2004, and immediately gave him up to Baby Home #8 in Nizhniy Tagil, Russia. We met him for the first time when he was 13 months old, in March of 2005, and we finally slogged through the paperwork and brought him home in July of last year, and he has been the light of our lives ever since.
He's a precious, beautiful, sparkling jewel of a child, and our hearts are brimming over with love and delight after 13 years of waiting to have a family of our own. We're considering going back for a daughter now.