UPDATE!

Thursday evening when Aaron checked the mail, he found we had received our approval from Immigration! YEAH! The Indy office has been SUPER fast...we received approval only a little over a week after they had all our paperwork!

So, we are well on our way to submitting our dossier. We have all our documents done and are just tying up all the loose ends on our mound of papers. Monday I will run the whole stack of papers to Indianapolis to be authenticated by the Secretary of State. We are lucky in that Indiana does this free of charge! Some states charge from $5-$20 a document! Considering we have twenty-some documents, we're talking a lot of money.

After we have all the documents authenticated, we will scan them and burn them to a CD for our agency. This way they have a copy and if something were to happen to a document, they could help us out. We will then send the documents to our agency who will forward them on to the Department of State and the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The Ethiopian Embassy is not free of charge...we will be sending them a check for $189.60! Boo!

Once Gladney (our agency ) has all our documents, we will be put on the waiting list. We should have our dossier to them by Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. However, we won't be put on the waiting list right away because we are waiting on a couple of documents that Gladney has to send to the Secretary of State's office in Texas. So, it may still be 2 weeks before we are actually on the waiting list. Either way, it will be soon! And, that means we can be rid of all the paperwork for awhile! Yipee!

I can't believe we're getting so close to seeing our little baby boy's face!

Speaking of little baby boys, Courtney had her baby on Wednesday morning! She went into labor at 2:30 in the morning and I took her to the hospital since George is doing his training for the Navy. They gave her an epidural within an hour of being there and she felt so much better she was able to sleep from 6 am - 8 am! When she woke up at 8, it was time to push! She pushed for 10 minutes and Baby Henry came right out! I got to cut his cord! He has a pretty good head of dark hair. Very different than Coleson and Ellie. He still doesn't have a name (this is normal, Ellie was not named for several days), but their leaning towards Cooper Knox Henry. I'll repost if this changes! It was a really cool experience to be there for Courtney. I've seen/helped with many childbirths, but this was the first where I knew the person giving birth!