so we didn’t make the travel group I had hoped. I believe their cases were submitted monday and Baby G’s 3 month stay is not complete until Friday….Sigh…. I have been told the groups are being formed about every 2 weeks and it is likely he will be in the next one. So, now it is time to try not to think about it for two more weeks. I am sure that will be easy. In the meantime, I guess we could start working on his room.
Baby G with his gifts April 17, 2007
I’m so excited. He got his gift bag and here he is with his stuff! This is our first picture since his referral. He’s getting a lot of hair!!!
Next steps April 17, 2007
While I wait I thought I might take this time to give a brief explanation of the next steps in this process (as I understand them). Next we will be assigned a group (I am REALLY REALLY hoping to be assigned the next group and that it happens soon). Once we are assigned a group we, and the other adoptive parents in our group, will have our cases submitted to court and then be assigned a court date. If we pass court on our assigned date the next step will be to get assigned a travel date (should be about 3-5 weeks AFTER the court date). Then I go!!!
By the way, babies must be in care for 3 months before they can get a court date. Baby G will have been there 3 months on April 27. Just over a week!!! So hopefully hopefully hopefully soon!!!
AWESOME April 16, 2007
Trying to potty train? Daddy-O ran across this little gem of a video. Sorry, I honestly can’t explain it. Please make sure to read the subtitles, they actually make it EVEN better!! It’s simply freakin hilarious. Supergirl already sings “sheeeeePA PA sheeeeeeeeeeeePA PA”
Easter April 11, 2007
Here is what Supergirl looks like all high on Easter candy!
And here she is the week before at the Egg Hunt at Church:
And here she is with her favorite treat left by the Easter Bunny: The Pooing Cow
A world away April 5, 2007
All along I figured the wait between referral and travel would be the hardest. The part where we have a son, we know his name, his face, but we can’t quite reach him. We can’t hug him and hold him and read to him. We can’t hold him if he’s sick, rock him when he’s tired, play with him when he’s awake. We just wait, and think about him constantly. I have actually been holding up amazingly well the first few weeks (it’s been 3), but now I’m starting to weaken. I am finding myself obsessing about a travel group. What group will we be in, when will they let us know. About how the court date will go (please God let it go smoothly). About whether he is sick (word is chicken pox is making the rounds again). I just would like someone, somewhere to throw me a bone here. Hopefully I will be ultra busy the next few weeks and months. But a few bits of info in the meantime would really help get us from here to there. I put out a plea on our agency’s listserve today for anyone who is traveling soon to please please check on him. And someone already told me they would! I definitely will do everything I can to give reports to everyone I can when I am there! But for now….I need to get the house clean for Easter-we’re having it at our house this year! Wish us luck!
I heart Spring!! April 1, 2007
We love spring! Supergirl and I have been waiting and waiting for the grass to turn green and FINALLY…. It is here!!! So in honor of spring, here are some nice pics of Supergirl enjoying her swing on the deck (yes her face is extremely dirty–she was playing in the sand table, what can I say?)
and her showing off the bunny she got from the secretary at the fire station (where Daddy-O works)–check out the cool shoes!
