Lots of News

Sorry it's been a while since we've updated, but we haven't had internet service!

Cameron was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday afternoon at 3pm. He ate great for 24 hours, so they released him. It was a great feeling to get to take our baby "home" to our rental house. We rented a house in Hollywood for 5 nights which is where we brought him home to.

On Wednesday, he had his pediatric appointment in North Hollywood just to check everything out before we headed back home. The doctor said he was a very healthy baby, so we're happy about that.

Thursday, we left our Hollywood rental and headed to Pacific Palisades for our next rental. We had to be out of our first rental at 11am, but couldn't check in to our new rental until 2pm. We drove to Pacific Palisades and found a Starbucks to hang out in for a while. When we walked in, we had our first star sighting...Rosann Arquette was there. YES...David Arquette's sister! Jeff made me calm down and not take any pictures. :) Everyone at Starbucks came over and talked to us about our baby, only to find out we adopted. They were all so nice and wanted to hear about our journey. I bet we talked to 5 people and told them our story. One person would ask and then another would overhear and want to hear and so on and so forth. It was nice to have people be so friendly. Not like that in Hollywood!

So, after Starbucks, we still had some free time, so we went down the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) and found the Will Rogers State Beach. We strolled along the beach and had some lunch at one of the food stands. While we were eating, Jeff's phone rang. It was our attorney from California saying we were just granted permission to leave the state! This happened 20 minutes before we were supposed to check in to our next rental that we have until Aug. 10! We were excited, but upset at the same time since we booked this rental. We called the landlord and asked her if she'd work with us and we told her our news. We got this rental down to 2 nights and will plan to leave first thing Saturday morning to begin our journey home. We checked in to our new apartment and it's beautiful! Jeff walked down the street to the grocery store to get stuff to cook for dinner and had another star sighting...Jay Mohr from Saturday Night Live and Jerry McGuire! He couldn't wait to get home to tell me. He even said "hi" to him as they were waiting in line for pastries! Two star sightings in one day!!! We were pretty excited!

Today (Friday), we are meeting the birthmother and her son at Venice Beach to get some pictures. Her son has not yet seen Cameron and she wants him to see the baby before we leave. We are fine with that, so we agreed to meet her at the beach.

We're very excited to be home and can't wait to share Cameron with all of you. We plan to be home some time Monday afternoon if Cam does well in the car. We won't have much time to update on our way home, but we'll let you all know when we arrive back in Manhattan safely.

Take Care and thanks again for all the support! I've included some pictures of the day we got out of the hospital, including the one with our two favorite nurses! :)