Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Happy Adoption Month!

November is National Adoption Month! We're pluggin' and chuggin' through the paper and will let you all know more when we know more! Our agency, WACAP, just made a great video that you can check out on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXmaA1hgmww

Lots of love!

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Authentication in Progress!

We just received our first authenticated documents back from the Oregon Secretary of State. It only took them a few days and the docs were back in our hot little hands. We also just got news that USCIS received our I600 A and that we'll be notified of our finger printing date within the next few days. We're movin'!!

Saturday, October 11, 2008

...and more paperwork!


Mama Jennie reading, signing, reading, signing...

Paperwork!


Daddy Kalan signing, signing, signing!

Processing Phase One


We have entered the first processing phase of our adoption! We just mailed in the new contracts to WACAP and are busy gathering info for the dossier. Our new addition, MonkeyBoy, is holding the paperwork before mailing. He's wearing the baby outfit Kalan gave Jennie for Mother's Day.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Homestudy Approved!

We just found out that our homestudy has been approved by WACAP and that we're officially in the Ethiopia Program! We'll spend the next few months getting new documents together and getting them notorized (and varified and notorized and varified and.....). We are right on schedule (at least for the part of the process that we can schedule) and hope to wrap up our end of the paperwork by the end of the year.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

I600A

We just completed our I600A for Advanced Processing of an Orphan. We were told to read the questions, answer them using common sense, and then change them to the opposite! We're finishing the homestudy (still waiting on a few documents to come in the mail) and will then start the dossier (a group of documents that help finalize the adoption in Ethiopia). We hope to be on the wait list by the end of the year!