Adoption update
August 9, 2009We’re excited to announce that our homestudy is officially done and approved by AAI!! We had some hiccups when our doctor refused to sign off on our medical forms until we have a recent TB test, then she took almost 1.5 weeks to get us in! We got our sealed approval letter this week….now it’s really, really official! This means that first thing tomorrow morning our i800-A application will be mailed out (along with the $800+ price tag!) I have no idea how long those are taking right now but I’m estimating we’ll have a completed dossier in about 6 weeks. AAI has a scheduled trip to Thailand during September so if we come to find out that the little guy we’re already looking at from their waitlist is spoken for, we’ll be able to know exactly who is available. With the wait from referral to travel at about 9-12 months, we are looking at summer 2010!
We can’t wait for next summer and our trip to Thailand to pick up our little prince. We’ve already started researching flights and let me just say, I’m glad that we live on the west coast! Matt and I have decided to bring all of the kids so we’re looking at 5 flights there and 6 flights back. Vietnam is also on the agenda so our trip is going to be about 4 weeks long! SSOOO excited!
Our first day there I’m going to buy a pair of fishing pants. The next 19 days I will wreck myself with food and continue to tie the pants looser and looser as I proceed from bad to worse to morbidly obese.
Great news!! So exciting to be moving forward–I will be watching closely for updates!
YAY! Great news, Nicole!!! Do me a favor and face north and wave when you are in Vietnam! We’ll be so close, yet so.far.away!
That’s great news Nicole! I can’t wait for some more news!