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

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Long Time No Posts ...

Well, let's see ...

Ray's surgery for tubes was postponed due to pneumonia. He is rescheduled for Feb. 5. We're hoping he stays well enough to get them done.

I finally broke down and called Early Intervention. His pediatrician isn't worried about the eating issues (that will come with work), but is concerned about his speech development. The ear doctor thinks he can't hear clearly right now, but the pediatrician wants him evaluated before we lose access to the services. I'll be meeting with Connie from Child Find tomorrow to get the paperwork started.

Joe is doing well. Still loves his baby brother, but isn't so fond of Ray slapping him. We're working on that. Pretty typical 2-year-old behavior though. I think Joe shows a great deal of restraint and maturity when we have these instances. He has not hit Ray back. We did tell him he can hold Ray's hands and tell him "no, don't hit," and he's been pretty good about doing that. Ray is definitely jealous of Joe and tries to worm his way between us if I'm paying attention to Joe or sitting with him.

Found out yesterday that our home study for Jessie made it to COTW and they are working on getting our dossier authenticated now. We'll just be hanging out waiting to get the fingerprint letter.

Now for some pictures ...


Ray and his friend Nilani.










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