Thursday, July 26th, 2007.

We met with our Social Worker today, for the first of three home visits. She also helped us with our first adoption so it's almost like working with an old friend. So much of this process has remained the same however the State has implemented some new laws which are going to make things a little more complicated. These are always to be expected, but we'll have to wait and see how much, if any, of a delay this may cause. Otherwise we are holding our own, maybe even getting a little anxious too!

Scheduded visits

Hope everyone is having a very enjoyable summer. We certainly are! We have a little water bug on our hands which is GREAT!

We have our visits for the home study scheduled. Keep us in your prayers for 7/28, 8/2 and 8/8. Looks like we should be well on our way for having this completed by the end of August.

As for the family we are all doing fine. Ahly is growing more and more and definitely hitting the terrible two's. As bad as they may be at times, I wouldn't trade them for the world. Sometimes we even catch ourselves laughing - just because it was something we never knew we were missing :)

Started Home Study

The home study application has been submitted, one more thing checked off. Our homestudy will take visits. One as a family then each of us individually. Hopefully we can get this completed by the end of the month, so we can start our Dossier and actually get on the waiting list for our newest little one :)

Application 2 Approved!

We just received notification from our caseworker that applicaiton #2 is complete - - Yippee!!
Now onto the homestudy process. Hopefully, with us having already done this, it won't take 3 months like last time.

As a side note, Todd has had his cast removed and is on his way back to normal. Wednesday will be his first day back to work in 7 weeks!

We'll keep you posted as more happens.

Application part 2

Whew! Application part 2 is complete and in route to Dillon. This part took longer than expected, thanks to a major unexpected delay. Most of you have heard by now that Todd broke his leg Mid-May, which made some of the running around a little more difficult. But in any case it's in the mail. Hopefully we'll hear in the next two weeks that the approval is complete and that we can proceed with our home study. Our Case Worker is already aware of us needing another one, and with our past home study already on file it should go quicker. (Let's hope.) Hopefully by August we will be getting our Dossier (legal paperwork for the government of India) together. Only when this step is done, will we actually be on the waiting list for our newest addition. Thanks for everyones well wishes and prayers while we wait patiently for this process to run its course.