Hey Family & Friends!
Welcome to our blog! We certainly hope that this doesn't bore you to tears but we just wanted to keep you aware of what's going on and up to date on where we are on our time line for our adoption proceedings.
On the 19th of the November we received notice, via message on our home recorder, that we were approved from the USCIS. For those of you who don't know, that means that the United States has approved us to bring our daughter home. VERY, VERY, VERY exciting news! Over a years worth of compiling paperwork and discovering a whole lot more about the adoption process then I could have ever imagined, boiled down to that message and a few days later - official documentation in the mail. So, now we are busy preparing our dossier, all of our documentation that's sent to Peru. We only have a few things left on our checklist and then it's ready for all of the "seals" that it requires. All have to be notarized, sealed from the Secretary of State, and finally seals from the Peruvian consulate, in Chicago. Then off to Peru it goes and we wait for approval from them. It is THEN that we will technically be 'WAITING'.
Part of our dossier will include about 18 pictures of us and our home, including what will be her room. The pic at the top of the page is of us in HER room. Thanks to our wonderful friend AMY for our little photo shoot today!
This week: finalizing our physician visits forms from last week and on Tuesday returning to the psychologist for 2 more tests and for him to interview the boys. Also, we are waiting for our FBI clearances in the mail. These are the last items on the list before seals, seals, and more seals!
We are very excited and can't wait to see how God is going to lay all of this out for us.
Thanks for coming along on this journey!
~Laci
