Saturday, May 27, 2006

The Paperchasing is FinallyOVER!!!!!!

Just to update you our 171-H a very long awaited piece of paper arrived just 6 days after our fingerprints. This means our end of the job is done. Well except the inifinite years of parenting that will come!!!

Chris will take it to the NC State Department on Tuesday and have the necessary documents attatched. Then we will mail it to Washington DC for the stamp of approval the the US State Dept. and the Embassy of Vietnam. Hopefully it will make its way back to us by the 2nd week in June then everything is ready to travel to Vietnam and we are ready to find out who our child is. Hopefully we will know by July, but it could take as long as September.

We are now getting the house ready. The office which will be the nursery was painted this week. We bought a crib, changing table and hopefully a rocking chair this week off of Ebay. We are moving the office to the basement to make way for the baby.

I cannot tell you how excited we are both becoming. It is finally going to be true.

Also I learned some news from my big sister about the time we bring home So-Cal (Sophie or Caleb) he or she will have a new cousin. Boy, our family is growing so quickly and I cannot wait for Christmas this year we will have a house full of kids and empty bank accounts. My sister was worried I would be angry with her. I hope you read this. This family has enough love to go around for all the children. Now she will be brushed up on her taking care of baby skills just in time for me to call her at 2 am when I can't get So-Cal to sleep or his/her poop is green or whatever. Now we will get to become Mommies together!!! This should also ensure my oldest neice enough babysitting experience to last a life time!!!

We will keep you posted.

Summer