"One Small Change"

September 9, 2008

Every time I get an email from IAN I am positive it is our baby!!
Each time it is not I am completely let down. Luckily I have David, my mom and some great new friends that are on the yahoo adoption forum. We all try to keep each other up on what is going on.

The email I received today was just to tell us that Aneata (the person we were working with) will no longer be working with IAN. That makes me a little nervous as she has done a great job.

We will now be working with Andrea. Andrea says there are no referrals coming in right now as the courts in Ethiopia are closed and they will re-open October 1. Then hopefully we should see our referral. I am a bit frustrated as most of the families I have met that have worked with IAN waited about 2 weeks and had their referral. I think I might be driving David crazy as it is the only thing I talk about.
Alex and Adam have one standard question, everyday after school they ask, "do we have our baby yet"? We are going to be so excited the day we are contacted and they will be too.

I 171H

September 9, 2008

We received our 171H. We are approved to bring a child home!!!

It came 1 week after finger prints. It was supposed to take 5 weeks, how great is that!!

Now we wait!!!

"Dossier Complete"

August 27, 2008

Our dossier is complete, it has been sent to Ethiopia and we are number 3 on the list for a baby boy!!! I think we may have broken a world record for the quickest finish on a dossier. From start to finish it took us barely 1 month. Aneata at IAN couldn't believe it.

We now enter in to what they call "The Wait Game"!!

I don't think I am going to like this I don't wait well.

We still need to receive our 171H. This is an approval to bring a child to the United States from Ethiopia. In Utah they say it takes up to 5 weeks for this to arrive. Aneata has told us to put that we would like more than one child. She says it is very hard when you get to Ethiopia to see all those children without a mom or a dad.