Our Road to Ethiopian Adoption: October 2009

Monday, October 26, 2009

Thank you!

So, for those of you who don't know, we are having a garage sale on Saturday to try and raise some $ to pay for our adoption. This is definitely being a different experience for me. It is so humbling to see how much our family and friends want to help us, and how they are willing to sacrifice to help us. So, this is a quick post to say thank you to all of you who have donated items for the garage sale. You know who you are. Please pray for this event, that it would be used for the glory of God, and that it would be successful in providing some significant funds for our adoption. Thanks for all of the support!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Of Course

I saw this on someone else's blog and just had to put it on mine. The cutest baby of the year was announced by Babytalk Magazine and guess what.....he's an Ethiopian baby that was adopted earlier this year. SOOO cute!!
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/gma-babytalk-magazine-cover-contest-winner-rowan-spracklen/story?id=8792951

Adoption #2 Timeline

April 29, 2012-Completed Application

May 4, 2012-Orientation packet received

May 10, 2012-Orientation call

May 16, 2012-Mailed in contracts

May 29, 2012-Dossier call

June 24, 2012-First Homestudy visit

October 4, 2012-Dossier mailed, corrections needed

October 23, 2012-Waitlisted, 114 infant boy, 57 sibling up to 36mo

October 31, 2012-113 boy, 60 sibling

November 30, 2012-109 boy, 58 sibling

December 31, 2012-105 boy, 57 sibling

January 29, 2013- 103 boy, 55 sibling

February 28, 2013- 103 boy, 54 sibling

March 28, 2013- 100 boy, 52 sibling

April 30, 2013- 98 boy, 55 sibling

Adoption #1 Timeline

6/26/2009 Preapplication Submitted to AGCI
7/17/2009 Preapplication and Dr.'s letters approved 8/18/2009 Application for Ethiopia submitted to AGCI 8/19/2009 Application approved by AGCI
8/21/2009 Orientation packet received
8/26/2009 Orientation call with AGCI
11/13/2009 Turned in agency contracts
11/21/2009 Received Adoption Planner/Dossier Packet 11/25/2009 Dossier review call with AGCI
12/2/2009 First homestudy interview
1/7/2010 Final homestudy meeting
4/6/2010 Homestudy is complete and approved
4/24/2010 Received completed homestudy
4/27/2010 Dossier mailed to AGCI!!
5/7/2010 On the waiting list. 55 on the girl list, 38 on the boy list.
6/10/2010 June updated numbers. 50 on girl list, 29 on boy list.
6/28/2010 Received Favorable Determiniation from USCIS(immigration)
7/2/2010 July update. 47 on the girl wait list, 26 on the boy list.
8/11/2010 August Update. 41 on the girl list, 24 on the boy list.
9/7/2010 September Update. 39 on the girl list, 23 on the boy list.
10/5/2010 October Update. 31 on girl list, 20 on boy list.
11/5/2010 November Update. 22 on girl list, 10 on boy list.
12/9/2010 December Update. 18 on girl list, 9 on boy list.
1/7/2011 January Update. 13 on girl list, 7 on boy list.
2/11/2011 February Update. 12 on the girl list, 8 on the boy list.
3/9/2011 Unofficially #1 on both the girl and boy list 3/10/2011 Matched with our 9 week old daughter
3/14/2011 Received our referral package in the mail 3/17/2011 Overnighted our referral acceptance package to AGCI
4/18/2011 Court date received, May 27th

5/19/2011 BM Court Date

5/24/2011 Meetcha day
5/27/2011 Passed Court, she's ours
6/20/2011 File opened at U.S. Embassy
6/24/2011 Embassy requested interview with birth mother
6/29/2011 Birth mother interview
7/1/2011 Embassy requests additional information
7/11/2011 Embassy requests even more information
7/20/2011 U.S. Embassy approves our file
7/21/2011 U.S. Embassy confirms our interview. We're going to Ethiopia!
8/1/2011 Gotcha Day
8/7/2011 Finally HOME with our daughter!!!

Our Road to Ethiopian Adoption

family picture

Monday, October 26, 2009

Thank you!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Of Course

Addis Ababa