Waiting for Referral Countdown...

Good-bye Countdown Ticker! :)

Still Waiting...

Well, we are still waiting for the referral of our baby girl, but we have started to buy things and pack them up so they can go with us when we fly down to Guatemala to sign the Power of Attorney. That has been ALOT of fun.

Nathan had his preschool graduation today and as we were driving up to the school we passed a big pond that always has lots of ducks, but these ducks have been missing for awhile. Today though he starts to scream that the ducks are back and they have babies! Sure enough there is a big brown and black mama duck and following were a bunch of little brown and black baby ducks, but the last baby duck was white, black and brown and my cutie says "Look mom, the last baby was adopted!"

171h Received!

As we are sitting here on beautiful Bald Head Island, my next door neighbor called to say we received our 171h in the mail! Finally Homeland Security/Immigration has given us the go ahead we need to get on the waiting list. Now we just sit back very patiently and wait for our agency to call and tell us they have a baby for us! Right now our estimation is that they are about 3 months out for a wait on a baby girl. We can't wait!

Dossier Off to Guatemala

Well, it looks like our Dossier is in good shape and our agency is sending it down to the Guatemalan office for translation. I'm so relieved. There is one document that lists all of our names (in every which way they have ever been used) that we need to add one more name too, but we can have it switched out during translation. Woo-hoo! Thank you to everyone for doing such a great job on all the paperwork - you guys were great in following all the directions. Now come on Homeland Security/Immigration - send us that approval! :)