Update on Wait Times

On a call with our adoption agency today, the wait times have been revised. It now looks like we will be waiting about 6 1/2 months for a referral, then 2-3 months to be assigned a court date and another 10 weeks for that court date to arrive. Travel to Ethiopia usually takes place within a month after that court date. Now, that takes us into the rainy season in Ethiopia (mid-June to mid-September) when everything stops for three months. So, it is possible that we may not travel to Ethiopia until late this year or early next year. It's okay, it just gives us that much more time to enjoy the smallness of our family.

Big Brother Training!

Today we received our approved I-171H from CIS. Tomorrow Tolido and I will get it authenticated at the Secretary of State, come back home, PDF it and then burn it and all other dossier documents to a CD. We'll then FedEx everything to the adoption agency and sit back and wait. From this point, we estimate a referral might take anywhere from five to seven months. Then our dossier will make its way through the Ethiopian courts and if all goes well, we hope to see another little smiling face in the house five to eight weeks later. In the mean time, we're going to teach Tolido to talk and snow ski and swim and stand on one foot and kick a ball and all the other good things big brothers ought to know how to do! :)