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"Timing is everything.\r\nKatherine Heigl and husband Josh Kelley always planned to have more kids after adopting daughter Naleigh from South Korea in 2009, but they figured another child was still a few years down the line. So it was a shock, to say the least, when the actress got a call earlier this year saying that she could have a baby within the month.\r\n\r\nOn Thursday, Dec. 20, the 34-year-old mom-of-two opened up to Tonight Show host Jay Leno about her unexpected second bundle of joy, Adalaide Marie Hope, whom she and Kelley adopted in April from a woman in Louisiana.\r\n&amp;quot;This was fascinating, because we started the adoption process again and we thought we were gonna adopt internationally. It&amp;apos;s a pretty long process. It can take years,&amp;quot; the former Grey&amp;apos;s Anatomy star explained. &amp;quot;And then we started exploring because we had heard that Korea had gotten very hard to adopt from, and China had a very, very long waiting list...And so we started exploring the idea of domestic adoption -- just exploring -- and then my lawyer called and said, &amp;apos;There&amp;apos;s a birth mother, and she&amp;apos;s due in four weeks, and she&amp;apos;s all yours if you want her.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nHeigl definitely wanted her -- but her singer-songwriter husband of five years needed a little convincing.\r\n&amp;quot;I had to talk Josh into that one,&amp;quot; she said, laughing. &amp;quot;He thought it was gonna be a few years, and that we were gonna end up with more of like a 9-month-old or 10-month-old, and he looked at me and said, &amp;apos;You&amp;apos;re telling me [that] in a month we&amp;apos;re gonna have a newborn?&amp;apos; And I said, &amp;apos;Yeah, it&amp;apos;s perfect timing, don&amp;apos;t you think? Look, we&amp;apos;re both here, we&amp;apos;re not working. This is great. We can spend time with her.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;It actually has been beautifully serendipitous and graceful, because we&amp;apos;ve gotten to spend all this wonderful time with her,&amp;quot; Heigl gushed.\r\nIndeed, even 4-year-old Naleigh has bonded with the tot.\r\n&amp;quot;She is loving being a big sister!&amp;quot; a source told Us Weekly earlier this year of the couple and their kids. &amp;quot;Everyone is doing great. They&amp;apos;re thrilled to add to the family.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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