Monday, December 1, 2008

The wait has begun

Monica spoke with Christy Penney, our adoption case manager, a few minutes ago. We mailed our dossier to AGCI two weeks ago but were missing one document that needed to be state certified. That arrived at AGCI's office today. We're now officially done with our dossier and on the waiting list! Christy called and gave us our official wait list numbers. We are #28 on the girl list and #14 on the boy list. That's great and all but here's where it gets exciting, scary, crazy, etc....Christy told us that there are only three families ahead of us waiting for a toddler girl and only ONE family ahead of us for a toddler boy! C-R-A-Z-I-N-E-S-S!

After we receive and accept a referral it will be approximately 3-5 months until we travel to pick up our child. Our case will go through the Ethiopian courts before we travel.

11 comments:

StuckeyBlog said...

Wow!! That's exciting! Sounds like things have moved pretty quickly. Maybe we'll get to meet your new little one at our reunion this summer? :)

Liz said...

yayyyyy!!! congratulations!

beemanworld said...

That is awesome, Matt! I hope it all goes very smoothly for you and your new little one is with you at home before you know it!

Anonymous said...

Hey....Matt, we will be thinking about you and your family these next months as you wait. It is very exciting indeed! God already knows!!

Love, Aunt Sue

Kathy Beachy said...

So exciting! It's starting to feel real.

Melissa said...

OMG that's so exciting!!!!!! !!!! !!!!!

Anonymous said...

I can feel the jitters in your post--I'm excited for you! Jason

karen said...

That is so exciting! We wait with you for more news!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations on getting the dossier completed! We are looking forward to hearing your news! Carmen

Unknown said...

WOW!!! Can't wait to hear the news when you find out what your having! I'm so happy for your family.

Tisha Alexander said...

Welcome to the waiting time!! You guys are not far behind us, but will surely get your referral before us since we're only on the sibling list. I am looking forward to everyone getting their new numbers this month!
Take care...