April 24, 2008: Gladney orientation phone call April 29: receive paperwork/To Do lists for both Gladney (placing agency) and Partners for Adoption (California home study agency). May 9: sent off fingerprints to FBI and the I-600a June 2: finished with ALL paperwork (except home study) for Gladney, Partners and Dossier June 2: 1st home study visit w/ Partners for Adoption social worker June 3: sent all dossier paperwork to KBS (except I-171 and HS) June 13: 2nd home study visit w/ social worker June 27: receive and edit HS 1st draft June 30: Partners send our HS to Gladney July 9: Gladney done w/ HS, they send it to KBS Aug 22: send I -171 to KBS so she can finish dossier for good Aug 29: officially on Gladney's WAIT LIST Oct 28: Start Blog :-) May 29, 2009: Beginning of 10th month on the waitlist June 8, 2009: REFERRAL! Two month old TWINS--a boy and a girl! Holy Hannah! July 24, 2009: COURT DATE! Except Mowa wasn't able to open for business and so all court dates were canceled July 31, 2009: COURT DATE! 2nd time is the charm! Mary calls us at 8:30am on Friday July 31st to tell us it's official....we are parents to TWINS! Aug 14, 2009: Fly to Addis Aug 16, 2009: meet the Twins Aug 25, 2009: Home again, Home again, now a family of 4!
Man o' man those kids are cute!!!!
ReplyDeleteLOL!!! Cute, cute, cute!!!
ReplyDeletelol!! that is adorable. we are preparing to adopt from Eth too. applying for two .
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They are so adorable, Kat! How did I miss the first 723 reasons why it's good to be a twin?
ReplyDeleteThat just may be the cutest thing ever!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh so cute! The sun hats too!
ReplyDeletelove it. love them! their hats are sooooo cute!
ReplyDeleteOh, the CUTENESS!!!
ReplyDeletethat's awesome! i feel like we have twins, too (age 2ish more like 3 and age 4). so good to have a bosom buddy! love it!
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ReplyDeletepretty dang adorable those two.
ReplyDeleteSO AGREE!!! Though we have 2 cars and they both sit in theirs and want Mom to push them both! :)
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