Noemi Demands Her Day in Court

Welp, Noemi's case WAS filed in court on Monday, but we have not yet heard anything about the date that her case will be heard in court to finalize the adoption.  We know of a few other families who are waiting for the same news.  It is likely that we will all be assigned to a larger group that will have the same court date. Good news is that the most recent group assigned went through much more quickly than the groups prior, so there is some promise that things are speeding up and we will get in before the August court closing.  Fingers crossed...

On the slow side of things, Ethiopia's rolling power outages have been increased from once every 3-4 days to 15 days per month, or roughly every other day, effective this week.  I can't imagine that this won't slow down communication at the very least, which is likely why we have not heard back from our contacts in Ethiopia about the pending court date. Fortunately, AAI recently raised enough money to purchase a generator for the compound.  Not so sure how long it will take to get it up and running.  Just think of trying to care for those 100+ children and babies without water?  Yowzers.  

Amidst all of this, Donovan and I have finally packaged up our Welcome Bag for Noemi.  I believe that I have been quite successful at marking all snuggle items with my scent (sniff, sniff).  They have been carefully stuffed in the dictated gallon-size freezer bag and shipped off to AAI.  It is under three pounds, as directed.  It will be hand delivered to Wanna House for the Nannies to read our letter, look through our photo album with pics of the family and take Noemi's photo in her new little outfit with the camera provided.  Did I mention that Donovan upgraded to the disposable camera with a zoom feature?  I caught him in the kitchen last night supergluing the lens into the zoom position so that the Nannies are more likely to take close-ups.  Donovan is hoping this will provide us with better composed and quality photographs.  Ahhhhh, atta boy.  

 

    BEFORE:  say goodbye to Lamb-fly and Monkey

        AFTER:  ready to rumble