Cole Hamels And His Family Continue To Grow With Adoption Of A Baby Girl

(Photo: @JeffSkversky)

Phillies' pitcher Cole Hamels has been a father of two for the last few years, but today (technically since December 24th) Cole Hamels is a father of three.

Cole Hamels and his wife Heidi have adopted a baby girl, Reeve, from Ethiopia. Reeve, who was abandoned at birth, was found by Ethiopian police in a field and was later taken to an orphanage where the Hamels' adopted her.

 

In a story by Channel 6 ABC's Jeff Skversky, Hamels says that it's a happy moment for his family of five.

"The sense of joy overcomes anything. [There were] tears, I'm glad they were not sad tears; obviously, the most joyful, exciting tears I think I can ever shed. We're just so happy," Hamels said. 

The process, which lasted about four years, did not stop the Hamels' from traveling to Ethiopia numerous times to finalize the adoption process.

"It's very, very time consuming, obviously worth it in the end; it's not nine months like a biological child, so, I don't know, I feel like I've been waiting on her my whole life," Heidi said.

The Hamels tell action news that they plan to keep their family growing and will not hesitate to adopt a child from Ethiopia again.

Congratulations to Cole and Heidi, who are parents yet again.

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Comments

[Liz F.]

Congratulations to the Hamels family on the adoption of Reeve. She will have a much better life now thanks to them. Plus she gets two awesome big brothers :)

[SkiggyKamigy]

Kudos to you for adopting, its truly a great thing... but can the next one be from the good old USA? There's plenty of children right here in our backyard that need adoption as well.

[aimless]

Dear SkiggyKamigy - how many children have you adopted from the good old USA? What makes you think it's your right to tell them who and how they should adopt? Congrats to the Hamels family on growing their family their way.

[benn]

you did a great act of humanity

[sean]

Absolutely wonderful , now i have a new baseball player i will root for.

[Mark Schroeder]

I don't see why they spent 4 years adopting this Ethopian baby when They could have adopted one from the United States. Like some hollywood people I think they get a kick out of doing this and then getting the praise for adopting these kids but my question is what about the poor child from the United States who isn't adopted and has to wait longer and then gets older and no one wants them.

[Mark Schroeder]

As of 2011 there were 104,000 kids in foster homes here in the United States and they go to Etheopia to adopt. They should be writing about how the Hamels forgot about the Americans needing homes and not praise them for what they did.

[Kiki]

The babies in Ethiopia are often in a worse situation, just left to starve to death, abandoned. The country is poverty stricken, so compared to America, it makes since.