The WIGGLES!!!!!

We took Stinker Doodle and his best friend, Jake Jake (Jake's Jake's parents went, too!) to see the Wiggles. I was really surprised they came to our town. We took the boys 2 years ago to Tampa to see them. Check out Stinker Doodle's Capt. Featherswords hat! The boys had a great time!!!!!

Agency Picnic

Today was our agencies Welcoming Ceremony and Reunion picnic. We had a very good time. We got to meet other families that had adopted and have their girls home and other families that adopted from other countries. The funny thing was, people kept asking us where we adopted Stinker Doodle from!!!!!!! We would politely explain that he is our biological son...they would apoligize about it after. But, it was kind of funny. The thing is, we were the only family there waiting...I guess it is too hard for those that have been waiting. Maybe next year, we will be those people. This is new for us. We did take a great picture with Lisa!

Dossier papers to our agency

ALL of our papers are done on our end. We overnighted all of our part of the Dossier paperwork. I spoke to our social worker, she was working on getting our homestudy completed. Looks like we are getting close...I can't wait.

USCIS papers came TODAY!!!!

I was so excited to see those papers. Everything is a go with Immigration. Very, very happy...

Letter to the CCAA

WOW! That was hard. How do you write a letter and request a child? Ted and I had a difficult time putting it into words. The problem is...Ted writes one way and I write it completely different. We really had to work together to get it done. I am very proud of our letter...I hope they like it.

Call to USCIS

I know...I know...don't call them! However, we had not heard anything and since it was mentioned that I might have to go back and take another day off to do fingerprints...I think I should call and find out. The nicest lady answered the phone and said they apperaed to be Ok. Very cool!!!!!!

Homestudy

Since my test results have come back somewhat OK, we decided to schedule our Homestudy. It went great. Stinker Doodle "gave the tour" to our social worker. He even took her outside to show her the playhouse in the back yard. He told her all about the neighborhood and all the kids that live nearby. It was very cute! All went well. We sat and went over all our paperwork and determined what we need to collect. We are very close to having our Dossier ready to go to China!