Christmas in June

One of the benefits of having slightly older girl cousins is that we will never have to buy toys or clothes. We are now the proud owners of The Rose Petal Cottage along with a number of other outgrown/unused toys. I really have no idea where this will fit in our house, but it's too cute to pass up :)

Mmmm!! Is that good?!

The blog title wouldn't be appropriate without some birdies and since it will probably be many, many months before there is any adoption news, I thought I would post a little something for you all. For those of you who don't speak parrot, the post title is a translation of what he says as he is enthusiastically licking the ice cream.

One down revised

The other day when I posted that we had been waiting one month, what I considered a month was 4 weeks. I guess officially it should be on the 6th of each month that is counted as another month. So anyway, now we have been waiting one month!!!

One down

We have been on the wait list for one whole month now! How many more is anyone's guess...

Maybe a little too soon...it was a great deal though!

Yesterday we purchased our first item for our daughter! I hadn't planned on buying anything yet because I knew once we started buying things and had to look at them every day it would make the waiting all that much harder. I went to a few garage sales yesterday and just couldn't pass up a crib/toddler bed selling for only $10!!! Since we saved like $200 on a crib and mattress, we decided to splurge a little bit and bought a few bedding items to go with it. Hopefully our girl likes birds as much as we do :)




The dolls and animals are courtesy of grandmas. (The clothing I couldn't pass up because they have birds on the shirts.) Looking at this makes us so excited! It all actually seems more real now. We are going to be parents :) All this bed needs now is a little person to fill it. Perhaps it was a mistake to buy this so early on...

Dossier

This is our authenticated dossier paperwork just before sending it in!

Officially Waiting!!!!

Today is the day that we start our waiting for a child referral! I was surprised to get an email from our caseworker today saying that our dossier looks perfect and we are now on the wait list. Yippee!! I was not expecting it this quickly but what a nice surprise :)

We are waiting for a referral of one girl up to 18 months old or two sisters, one of which is under 18 months and the other up to 4 years old. More than likely we will end up with a referral for one girl.

I know everybody is wondering how long will this take. Right now the average wait time for a referral is around 8 months, so we have a lot of waiting ahead of us. After the referral we will still need to wait to receive a court date and then wait to pass court, which may or may not happen on the first try. Any prayers for patience would be greatly appreciated!