Single Digits!

The title of this blog says it all!  We moved again today and this time it has bumped up into single digits - YEAH.
Baby Girl - #42
Baby Boy- #21
Toddler Girl - #9
Sibling Group - #14
I know I have received the question several times about " Do you have to be #1 before we will get a referral?"  Well, just to clarify for you all... The family that accepted this referral today was #4 on the toddler girl list and the family yesterday was #5 on the sibling list.  In fact, I think only a few of families have actually been in the #1 spot, on their appropriate list, when they accepted a referral.  So maybe, just maybe we will see the sweet little face of our new child around Christmas!

Something to blog about!

Once again I was mulling over what to blog about this week.  Since there has been such little movement for us on the list lately, and that is my favorite thing to post, it was leaving me without much to be really excited about.  But, when Brandon got online tonight and checked IAN's blog, lo and behold we had moved up on the list! Two little girls, age 2 and 4yrs, have found their forever home today.  And as a result we are a couple spots closer to finding our forever son or daughter!  Our current status is....
Baby Girl - #43
Baby Boy- #21
Toddler Girl - #10
Sibling Group - #14 

Fingerprints and Training...

Well, I can no longer get away with murder... I have been fingerprinted!  As part of our "clearance" to bring orphans into the States we have to have our biometrics taken for the USCIS.  As soon as Brandon has his taken, we will receive verification 4-6wks later that we are one step closer to being able to bring home our new son or daughter when we receive a referral. 
In addition to immigration paperwork, we have also found out that we have more training to complete over the next couple of months.  The state of Texas requires that each parent complete 10 hours of training in adoption issues before you may finalize and adoption.  We completed this training several months ago and thought that we were finished, but found out this week that our agency has just added additional training to their requirements.  So it is back to the books!  Hopefully, it won't take too long to complete, since it can be hard to come up with time that is undivided with two kiddos running around.

A little something...

Well, first of all it's been about a week since we have heard of any other families accepting referrals.  Last week someone did accept, what I am sure is an adorable toddler boy!  So we moved up a couple of spots on the infant lists.  Honestly, the waiting list for infants is so much longer that we are not too hopeful of being referred an infant.  Which is completely fine, because Addie has told us repeatedly that she is getting a "new sister who will share her bed!" :-)
It has been 5 months since we first sent in our application to I.A.N. for adoption and only 3 months since we went on the waiting list for a child.  So if we were comparing this to the wait time of a pregnancy, we would not even know the gender of the baby yet.  Thinking this way helps me with what seems like forever of a wait!  In reality we have moved very quickly up the list and were spoiled with all the movement from the beginning.  With all that said we now sit at....
Baby Girl - #44
Baby Boy- #22
Toddler Girl - #10
Sibling Group - #15