Working On The Dossier

Today we received the Dossier information from Katie. Woo, hoo!!! That's the next set of documents we need to gather. We'll submit the "certified" copies of those documents and then the folks at Dillon will send them to on to be authenticated by the Vietnam Embassy. I'm on vacation all week next week and it's my goal to have all of the documents to Dillon by next Tuesday.

The cool thing today was that 3 of the documents we have to sign are in Vietnamese. Wow...it's actually happening. I'm so excited!!!

By the way...if you haven't checked out the "In Vietnam" links on the left...be sure to do so. There are three families in Vietnam now picking up their precious babies. Congratulations to Erin & Jason, Jessica & Ken, and Leslie & Scott!!!!

Vietnam Family Day

Yesterday we attended the Vietnam Family Day hosted by our adoption agency. We were amazed. There were so many people there. It was much different than India Camp. I was expecting a fairly large group...but it was crazy. We only stayed about an hour. It was nap time for Ian and he was cranky, cranky, cranky. He was asleep in the car about a block in to the drive home. We were able to see so many cute, cute kiddos. I didn't get to talk to as many people as I wanted to...but I recognized lots of faces from their blogs.

Ian had a pretty good time. I was quite surprised that he didn't want to play in the balls...but he wanted nothing to do with it. He was interested in the car, truck and boat....until we put the quarter in and it started. Then he was a little afraid. He got this shocked look on his face and started saying "up peese...up peese." He didn't want to get in them again.

We met up with another couple that we attended the Adopting Again workshop with. Al and Chris are just a little ahead of us in the process. They live in the Tulsa area and we're hopeful that we continue through this journey together.

I didn't know how I'd react after going to this event. Since we're still so far away from actually getting our baby. But...it got me all excited again. I saw so many cute kiddos and so many happy families that it made me ready to tackle anything to get to our baby.

Get ready Vietnam....here we come!!!!

Nothing New

I'm a little down today. I was sure that we'd be further along than this by now. After all, it's our second adoption with the same agency. It seems there are a lot of people in the same stage as us right now and it's taking a little longer to get our home study completed (typed) than I had anticipated. Plus, Rebecca leaves for China tomorrow for a Birth Land tour with 5 families. So, I'm not anticipating it to be completed now until after she returns. Completely out of my control....the way the whole adoption process is.

On a happier note in the world of Vietnam adoption, several families have received their Provincial Approval and are now waiting on the G & R date. They'll be travelling very soon. Congratulations to the parents of Beckett, Avery and Loston!!!!!

Jynger is in Vietnam now. She has been there for about a week and is scheduled back in the office next week. Hopefully she'll bring lots of good news (translated...referrals) with her. There are lots of families that have been waiting for many months to receive their referrals. I'm praying that there's movement soon on the waiting list.

Moving on now...I'm finished with my mini pity party for tonight.