The Memorable Moment

The note read, “Here is the most recent picture of our family. All of us would love for you to be in the next picture, and for you to be a part of our family. Carter, would you like to be a Kiphart and be our son and brother?” This was what he had wished for with the least expectations of this wish ever being fulfilled.

Couldn’t Stop Crying

When Carter couldn’t hold back his tears, Leah Kiphart hugged him and his uncle asked him, “What do you think, buddy? We’re going to adopt you, Carter.” Carter couldn’t believe that all this time he was there, he didn’t get even the slightest idea of what the Kipharts were planning. Then Carter replied…

Cracking JokesCarter looked up and smiled when he realized that the picture was of the whole Kiphart family.

In order to make him laugh, Carter’s uncle said from behind, “Now you can stay here forever. Well, until you’re 18 and then I’m kicking your butt out.” The little boy smiled with teary eyes and hugged his aunt back who was from this moment, his mother.

Highly Thankful

Carter replied to his uncle by nodding and added, “I want to thank you so much.” The thing was that the Kipharts themselves didn’t have it all planned for a long time. In fact, everything happened within the last day.

Unplanned DecisionOvercome with emotion, Leah walked over to her nephew and wrapped her arms around him.

“This was not planned. We discussed with our other children Sunday night and shared with him Monday morning. This might have been the last time that we were ever going to see Carter, and felt that it was really important for us to keep him in the family. A lot of people talk about how lucky he is. We are just as fortunate to have him join our family,” said Leah in an interview.

Amazing People
Carter was transferred to open status, which meant that anyone could adopt him, not just family.

“Carter came to us because he’d been having a less than desired home life with his biological family. Carter isn’t just the lucky one in all of this. We are blessed to have him as part of our family,” said Leah who felt glad to have taken the decision of adopting Carter.