Thursday, August 20, 2009

I 600 A

I have been checking the mail everyday in hope to find it in the mailbox and today we received it...our Notice of Favorable Determination letter has arrived! We are now officially approved by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services to bring home our baby! Now we just have to find out who our baby is!

We have been getting things done in his nursery here and there. We bought bedding, painted his dresser, and bought fabric to do this wall hanging thingy. Really all we will need to do it paint...Hazel is still in the nursery although we do have a twin bed for her in her new shared room with big sister. I told Adam we may have to take down the twin bed and push the crib in there and get another crib. He wasn't really up for that, so soon we will have to get her sleeping in her "big girl" bed. Pray that it is a smooth transition!!! Once she is in her big girl room we will get the nursery done. Seems like that will have to be sooner than later!!!! I am still amazed of how quickly this is moving.

Something really sweet that Hazel does now is take my Africa necklace in her hand and say "Acica" (africa) and then "I say who lives there?" and she says the babys name and then I say "who is that?" and she says "baby bruh" (in her almost 2 year old language this mean baby brother)
She is so sweet and it is so cute!!!!!

So I just wanted to share the exciting new of our I 600 A approval!!! Another step done!!!

13 comments:

  1. That is a great feeling!!! Love the cute 2 year old sayings. When I ask Jonathan if he wants a baby brother- he says yeah, but I don't think he really knows what that means.....he he he....he will soon! Well in the next year.

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  2. yeah, so glad it came in!! congrats!! that's huge! I still keep checking the mailbox for our's. They didn't call us in until July 25 for fingerprinting, so Julie said we need to give it a little more time before we contact them. whew, but boy am i ready to receive it for peace of mind.

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  3. YAY! Two thumbs up from the gov! :)

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  4. The FDL....that was a hard wait for me. We couldn't get put on the list until we had it.
    I am happy for you that you got it!

    Michelle
    www.mfamilyblog.blogspot.com

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  5. Another step closer. It is nice to check that one off. I'm still pending. Urrrgghhh!

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  6. congrats..I loved when we got that BUT we accidentaly threw it away..can you believe it? So we had to order another one...crazy...You're getting close, kristi

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  7. So fun that you are starting a similar school! Are you guys with the National Association of University Model Schools? or another? What part of the country are you in. It seems these are popping up all over. We are two days a week at school and 3 days a week at home too.

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  8. Awesome that it is a charter! Ours is private and not free, but less then most. It is not the easiest way to go, but we think for our family the mix of traditional classroom and homeschool is the best!

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  9. Whoo-hoo!!! :) When we adopted our boys 4 years ago, we got our referral so fast that we had not yet received our "notice of favorable determination" letter. I pretty much cried every day as we waited three long weeks for it, and my hubby video taped the opening of the letter. So exciting! Congrats! I can't wait to hear all about your referral. :)

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  10. Hi, to answer your question my husband is staying home with our daughter while I travel to pick up our son. That actually makes me feel a lot better that she will have one of us home. Thanks for the comment. HOpe you hear good things soon!

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  11. Hey there, pretty exciting news today about Heather and Brian??! We are all getting closer!! Hey, I would love to see your sketch from the WEWO workbook. You must post!! :)

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