Homestudy

Our homestudy is coming up in a couple of day's and i'm amazingly calm about it. I have no reason to worry ( unless Alex decides to bite Nicholas or something crazy like that) , so why worry. I'm just more anxious to get the show on the road. Over the next few weeks, I will be working on getting my Dossier complete and then the wait will officially begin. My mom and sister will be coming to Texas for a visit at the end of June WOOHOO. I can't wait to see them! Here is a picture of one of my nieces ( soooo cute ).

YEP

I'm having a good time shopping for girl clothes! I have bought 8 dresses ( with matching bows/headbands ) , 1 sweater, 3 shirts, and 2 pairs of pants. Right now, the wait is 12-15 months after the submitted Dossier, so we are looking at next summer, or early fall. We dont know what size she will be in, but I have been told that most of the children are small due to malnutrition. It makes me sad to think of my child being hungry, and not being able to do anything for her yet. I cant wait to get her home, where she belongs. Nicholas picked out a cute little blankie for his baby sister. He was excited to see all the dresses hanging up in the closet. Poor Alex has to endure my playing dress up with him lol. I have been trying all the dresses on him to get an idea of how they fit an almost 2 year old. He's been a good sport though and even got excited to " show Sean " each new outfit. Here are a few pictures of Alex modeling a couple of new dresses.

Nick graduates from preschool!

We went to Nick's preschool graduation tonight and it was so cute. I can't believe that he is going to be starting Kindergarten in a few months. Where does the time go???? He has been talking about having a little sister, and how he thinks that he might have some girl toys for her in his playroom. He's going to be a good big brother to his little sister.

We have our homestudy scheduled for June 2nd WOOOHOOO!!!!!!

We did our passports today and my picture came out awful!!! It's about a 12 week wait for passports right now, so we had to pay extra to have it expedited. Although we probably wont be traveling for awhile, we need a copy of our passports for the Dossier. I want to thank all of the people that have taken the time to write reference letters. I know that everyone is busy, but it's greatly appreciated.

We have all the paperwork filled out for the homestudy. The only thing that we are waiting for now is a recent bank statement (should be here this week) , our bloodwork results, and 2 teacher letter's. We got confirmation from the UCIS that they recieved our application for the I600 A ( petition to adopt an orphan child from another country). Our next step is the actual homestudy. The social worker will talk with Ron and I together, and then she will talk to each member of the family seperately. She will also tour our house and ask a lot of personal questions. Yep, i'm looking forward to all this lol.

Slowly but surely!

We almost have all of our paperwork together to submit for our homestudy WOOHOO. I can't wait to be DONE with it. I know that this is only the beginning , but at least it's a step closer. Christopher ( our 16 year old ) had his physical yesterday and Ron had his done today. Mine is scheduled for tomorrow. I have to bring Alex with me, so hopeful he will be cooperative. I brought him with me to Christopher's appointment and he dumped a whole canister of tongue depressors on the floor *oops*. I offered to pay for his mess , but the doctor said that there was no way of billing for it.

O.M.G

The paperwork is totally crazy!!! Ron and I have plugged away at most of it this weekend, but there are a few blank spots that we still need to fill in. We completed our I600 A and sent that out last week. My goal is to have all of our paperwork for the Homestudy done by the end of the week. We had to get letters of recommendations from each of the boy's teachers AND an additional 4 reference letters from other people. We have our physicals scheduled for Tuesday and then we should be good to go.