Important Milestones

  • October 23, 2008 - Head Home! The plane is supposed to land around 8:30 pm
  • October 22, 2008 - Swearing In Ceremony
  • October 21, 2008 - Consulate Appointment
  • October 10, 2008 - Leave for China
  • September 8, 2008 - Travel Invitation! Hoping to get an October Consulate Appointment!
  • July 24,2008 - We have LOA! 78 days from LID!
  • May 8, 2008 - Official LID ... Now, we wait.
  • April 28, 2008 - Dossier on the way to China!
  • April 7, 2008 - Received USICS approval for Jessie Rose. Approval was signed on April 4.
  • March 14, 2008 - USCIS/FBI Fingerprinting in Birmingham
  • February 21, 2008 - Homestudy sent off to USCIS
  • January 27, 2008 - Find out home study is in the hands of our agency and they are starting to get the authentications for our dossier.
  • December 13, 2007 - Fourth and final home study! Come on, Karen, get that thing written up!
  • December 3, 2007 - Third homestudy. One more to go!
  • Nov. 18, 2007 - Second homestudy
  • Nov. 11, 2007 - First homestudy scheduled for 1pm.
  • Sept. 24, 2007 - Sent final application and China dossier to agency
  • July 13, 2007 - Pre-Approval to Adopt Received from China
  • March 21, 2007 - Letter of Intent submitted for Jessie Rose

Monday, October 8, 2007

A Bunch of Pictures







Let's see what we have here. And one day I suppose I will learn how to put a caption by each photo ...

We have a pitiful photo of little Ray on the day he had tubes put in his ears. Poor little man, he had no idea why he was in that ugly green dress. The nurse came in and gave him some sort of liquid medicine to make him loopy before the surgery ... and boy did it ever. I could tell the instant it kicked in. His little head swung around and up, his hand shot into the air and he started wiggling his fingers in front of his face. THEN he fell over backward and started laughing. This continued until the time they took him back to surgery. Keeping a drunk baby from leaping of a gurney is definitley and adventure!

Then, we have a picture of my boys, Mutt and Jeff. Not sure which is which, but, as you can see, there is a big difference in size and general appearance with these two. Its a huge change for us having little bitty Ray, who at 2 years is wearing a 12 month size on bottom and an 18 month on top when, at the same age, big brother Joe was wearing a 4T.

Finally, the day Ray attacked! He really just wanted to watch Joe's video game screen, but Joe kept moving it away from him. I really can't blame Joe. Who knows what might happen if Ray got his little death grip on the top hinge of the player?

1 comment:

The Princess's Mommy said...

How sweet! I miss my boys being that age! Congrats on your second adoption! I hope things move along quickly for you!
Monica