Surprise Visit!

Natalie had a surprise visit on Nov. 28. We just received pictures. She takes a bath at 11am, goes to bed at 8pm and wakes at 6am. Not bad!

Look at those chubby cheeks and long eyelashes! We can't wait to hold her on Dec. 28!!

Guatemalan Congress Passed Adoption Law

The Guatemalan Congress passed the 3rd reading of it's adoption law today. It is NOT the law we were hoping for unfortunately. The good news is that it does contain a "grandfather" clause for in process cases. That is assuming Guatemala can set up an agency to register all the in process cases 30 days after the effective date of Dec 31. Who knows how that will go. The bad news is that this law is not good for the future of guatemalan adoptions. Though I'm thankful that it looks like - eventually - Natalie will make it home, I'm horribly sad for all the babies who will never make it when this law goes into effect and makes everything fall apart.

Our agency is analyzing the new law now and will let us know the details as soon as they have them - which will probably take a day or two.

PREVIO

A very bad day. We received a previo (kick out) on Nov. 29 and just found out today. PGN asked for a clarification of a multi-page document and that's all we know. Apparently it was "clarified" and we were put back in on Nov. 30. We have to go back to the bottom of the pile so we just lost 3 weeks. So sad.

November Social Visit Pics...

These were taken on November 15. She looks like the cute little butterball that she is! Our agency won't be doing December social visit pics for security reasons, but we're ok with that (especially since we will be visiting for New Year's!!).