He looks just like you.

When we were choosing our donor, we chose someone who had brown eyes and brown curly hair, not because we thought we were going to fool anyone into thinking that maybe he was genetically related to both of us.  But it was important to me that Jude looks like a part of "us."  Similarly, we chose someone who was outgoing and extroverted for the same reasons -- so our baby would have a combination of both of our personalities.

Yesterday at our Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) class, we were going around the table sharing how we created our families.  We shared a little bit about our story and Liz's pregnancy.  And then after class, another parent came up to me and shared that she never knew that Liz was the one who had carried Jude.  She said that she always thought that Jude was such a perfect combination of our personalities and appearances that she didn't know who his birth mother was.  

Well done, Heyers.  Well done.