It begins.

On February 14, 2008 (Valentine's Day), J and I had our pre-adoption conference call with our agency in Minnesota. (We latched on to this agency--the one our bro and sis used--after the ones we had visited in Chicago would not serve us as we now call Iowa home.) Immediately, we sent our application. Here is a picture of J at the computer. We are lucky in that J and I both arrived at this decision on our own. Neither one of us had to convince the other. That has been nice.

And look! He even dressed up in his leather sweater.