The egg is walking!

Dear friends and family:

We are THRILLED to announce that we have a SON! On this blog we'll call him A. He was born August 18, 2008. He is healthy and we think he’s perfect! Our agency called on Monday, March 15, 2010, to give us the referral and we had to wait until our pediatrician looked over the paperwork and approved it before we could accept. We officially accepted by phone on Thursday, March 18, and signed off on the acceptance paperwork on Friday the 19th. Everything is in order now and it’s official. We’re so glad to share our joy with you!

Here’s what happens next. In a month or so we’ll be assigned a court day for about 6-8 weeks after referral. Right now our agency is not sure whether we will need to travel over there for that or not. I would be thrilled to do so, but it’s up in the air for the moment. Then, if we pass court, he becomes legally our son and his paperwork gets filed for an Embassy appointment. It has been taking about 4 months between court date and embassy date, so we’re estimating a May court date and a September embassy date, but you all know how adoption timelines go. The good news is that our agency doesn’t have a long backlog of families waiting for embassy appointments now, so this might be one of the few cases where things actually could move faster than expected – if we’re really lucky!

Unfortunately, we are not allowed to share A’s photograph electronically before the court date. We look forward to sharing plenty of photos after we return from his court date. In the meantime, trust me: we’ll be carrying it around his referral photo with us EVERYWHERE.

We’re thrilled to share this news with all of you. Thank you for your support throughout this long process, and for celebrating this amazing milestone with us!