Our first phone call

On Tuesday February 19th we called our social worker and scheduled our first appointment with her. After the phone converstaton I got very excited and starred working really hard to get together the paperwork we already have as well as ordering other documents. As usual I am trying to organize and label everything and Rudy laughs at my organization but at the same time is very appreciative. We are really excited about starting the home study, and are counting down the day until next Tuesday.

The Home Study is Moving Right Along

We sent the home study application on Monday and by Friday we received a packet from our home study agency stating that they were going to accept our application and assigned us our social worker. Tomorrow Rudy and I are going to call our social worker and hopefully set up our first of four appointments.

This weekend we had another gathering with the Georgia Ethiopia adoption group. Stephanie and Jason openned up thier Rainbow showroom to host this gathering. Of course Lawson and all the other kids had an amazing time playing on all the playground equipment. We too, had great time on the slides, but most of all we enjoyed talking with friends we made last time and making new friends this time. Thank you Stephanie and Jason!!!

We Finally Sent the Application!!

Our intentions were to send the home study application out two weeks ago, but for several days we forgot to sign it, then we forgot copy it, etc. Finally today 2/11/08 I mailed out our home study application. I have also created a sheet for keeping track of all our documents needed for the adoption. WOW!! We need a lot of documents.

Last week was Eli's first Birthday (2/4/07). He was born on superbowl Sunday last year. We had a great birthday party for him Saturday. It is so much fun to watch all the kids playing together in our playroom. I expected Lawson to get a little jealous of his brothers birthday but he was amazing. He was so happy for Eli and just wanted to celebrate his birthday with him.

Back to the adoption; I am going to start collecting all the documents we need this week. My initial thoughts are that it is not going to be difficult just tedious, and time consuming. We will see. I am sure I will have plenty of comments on this later.