QUEEN CREEK, AZ -- On Saturday, Robert and Debbie Burgess will officially adopt the son they've always waited to have.
"He's everything that I wanted," Robert said. "Every parent wants an offspring. Every parent wants a child to provide for."
The Queen Creek couple, who married in 2005, always wanted to have children but said they waited too long to have kids and couldn't because of their age.
They tried once before to adopt a young girl they were caring for, but it didn't work out and the girl moved back in with relatives.
Last spring the couple found 11-year-old Matthew. He moved in when his foster family, with whom he had been living with for several years, could not care for him any longer.
Debbie's eyes fill with tears when she talks about seeing Matthew and her husband together.
"Every morning before Rob leaves for work, Matthew runs and jumps up and gives him a big hug around the neck," she said wiping the tears away. "As a mom that's just the best sight in the world."
Matthew says he feels loved and enjoys how much the Burgess's spoil him.
"I've been calling them mom and dad ever since April," Matthew said.
More wise than his years, Matthew decided to be adopted on Saturday, National Adoption day. At 11 a.m. he will offically be a member of the Burgess family.
The couple has already told the adoption agency that they are interested in adopting a second child, maybe a younger brother or sister for Matthew.
"It doesn't take everything to make a child happy," Robert said. "It takes love. It takes dedication and it just takes knowing somebody is there for him and we are and he is for us."
