Adoption update!

Well, since I blogged last a few things have happened with our adoption process. Our social worker made the necessary changes to the home study and mailed our final copies to Gladney, Immigration, and us. Gladney looked over the final copy one more time and officially approved us! We have now moved on to our dossier coordinator. We officially have all our dossier documents complete and we have sent them to our coordinator for review. There are about 40-some pages so I know it will take her awhile to go through them all. If she finds any errors, she'll let us know and we'll work on getting them fixed. We're praying that any errors are with documents that will be easy to fix!

While waiting for our dossier documents to be approved, we are also waiting on our I-171H (our approval from Immigration). It seems the Indy immigration office has been moving pretty quickly so I hope it won't be long before we receive our approval.

I think that is about all as far as adoption news goes. I am beginning to get more excited at the thought of being put on the waiting list, but am really at peace with the whole process. I'm going to really try to focus on getting things accomplished on the house during our 3-5 month wait for a referral.

Home study review completed!

I received our revised home study from Judy (Gladney) today! She will send it on to our social worker who will make the necessary changes. At that point, our social worker will send the final copy on to Gladney, us, and Immigration. Once Gladney approves the final copy we will officially have Gladney approval. WHEW! Finally!

At that point, our file will be sent on to our dossier coordinator, Jessica. This is the person that will be working with us through the rest of the adoption. She will help us with our dossier (hopefully not much more to do), call us once we have our referral, keep us updated on our court date, and help us arrange our travel.

I'm starting to get very anxious to get on the waitlist!

Loving Summertime!

No movement on the adoption front as our home study is still being reviewed by Gladney. I hope to hear from them early this week and if all goes well we will get it forwarded on to Immigration by the end of the week.

We really haven't been focusing on the adoption too much and have just really enjoyed the nice weather. On Saturday, we went to Drew and Trini's for a cookout for Trini's birthday. It's soooo nice to have them back in Indiana!

We went to the little water park here in Lafayette yesterday. Aaron had a good time going down the slides and Grayson and I enjoyed the lazy river and the kids wading areas!

We've also discovered that Grayson LOVES corn on the cob. Here are a few pictures from the other night!

Not too much to report.

Well, since we've been home from Orlando we have made a little progress on the adoption front. Our home study agency has forwarded our home study draft on to Gladney. Gladney, our adoption agency, will take 10 days to review it. At that point, our social worker will make any necessary changes and send it back to Gladney. At that point, we will receive our final approval from Gladney. We will then forward our home study on to Immigration. We are keeping our fingers crossed that it will only take a couple of weeks for them to issue their final approval.

As far a the dossier goes, we are making great progress. Aaron and I took a huge stack of papers to the bank the other day to be notarized. So, with one trip to the bank we finished up our financial statement, bank letter, FBI clearance packets, and power of attorney. I believe we are only a couple documents away from having our dossier completed! I can't wait to get on the waiting list so I can sit back and relax for a few months!

In other news, I signed Grayson up for a class at the YMCA called Munchkin n Me. We had our first class today and he really seemed to enjoy it. There are 4 other kids in the class and he was acting a little shy at first, but it didn't take him long to get warmed up. So, this will give us something to look forward to on Wednesday mornings.