Well, as you can see, it's been a while since my last update. With summer, work, two little girls who don't stop until I drug them to sleep (that's a joke Child Protection Services, just a joke), and house projects, I forgot to update our adoption blog. So sorry Mom! Here's some new info.
We finally finished ALL the paperwork for the adoption, and we were approved by the government (yeah, we aren't criminals!) so we are now waiting for a referral from the adoption agency. Our agency stops handing out referrels as of June 15th due to the fact that Ethiopia's government shuts down for 2 months (August-September) during the monsoon season. So, we have to wait now, probably until Sept/Oct to get our referral.
We have been approved for up to 3 children, but our preference is for twins first, then sibling groups, and finally a single child. We have no gender preference and the oldest we child we will be able to take is 3-3.5, because Chloe will be 4.5 and we want to keep her as the oldest.
So now we wait, and wait, and wait! We are still working on the basement (yeah, mom, still! Sorry it's taking so long), but we are almost done! Next I am going to be building a bunk bed for the girls and they will move in with each other at the end of August (hopefully) and Em and I are going to be working on some fund raisers to help pay for the adoption.
