Application Dossier was submitted today!

Our Application Dossier was submitted today! They will send us a date to go meet our boy after they look it over . I was told maybe 2 weeks.so I hope that by Sept 6th we will have our date.

Connor has a family!

I posted 2 weeks ago a little guy named Connor, well he has found a family or shal I say a family has found him! so excited for this sweet little guy.

TOBY AND CATHERINE need a Mommy and Daddy to love them!

Toby (26)

Boy, Born October 22, 2009
Toby is another tiny one, perfect age to blend seamlessly into a new family and benefit from early ntervention. He does have a heart murmur which will need to be followed by a cardiologist once home.
I have $1010 in my grant fund towards the cost of my adoption!










Catherine N.

Brothers and sisters no

Date of Birth: November 2007

Gender: Female

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Dark

Character: sociable

 

 

 

 

Reece's Rainbow

It's Done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We got all of our paper work, forms, letters, everything we need all notarized and ready to go get apostilled. we will be sending that tonight. we should have it all back by Saturday, so we can send it to our agency to look over,  if all is ok she will send it to our facilitator in Josiah's country. she will look it over translate it and get it ready to send to the judge. For you that don't know what all of this paper work is it is our COURT DOSSIER!!!! it is pretty much our life on paper, it is 5 months of hard work , it is really important and we are DONE!!! with it THANK YOU LORD!

Andrew and Celine need families!

Andrew G.

Brothers and sisters no

Date of Birth: September 2007

Nature: Quiet

 Look at these giant blue eyes! Diagnosis: DS, undetermined mental deficiency, umbilical hernia of small size, deviation of nasal septum, connatal stridor (wheeze),allergic dermatitis.

I have $5 in my grant fund towards the cost of my adoption!

Celine

Brothers and sisters no

Date of Birth: October 2005

Gender: Female

Eyes: Blue

Hair: light brown

Character: sociable. Calm

Celine is a pretty little girl who is blessed to still be at the baby house. She is facing transfer soon. Celine has blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She is quite self-sufficient and independent physically. She very much enjoys the attention of adults, and likes to read books and engage.

From her medical records: Down syndrome, moderate mental deficiency; hypertrophy of tonsils of the II-III degree; farsightedness; adenoids the II-III degree; allergic dermatitis; hypostatura. Sveta also has talipes valgus and congenital chord anomaly.

Celine will do very well in a family setting. Lots more photos available, along with FULL MEDICAL RECORDS. Married couples only at this time.

I have $10 in my grant fund towards the cost of my adoption

5 months today

  5 months today boy it seems to get faster and faster that I post these monthly posts. So it has been 5 months today that we committed to be Josiah's family. Not so much has happened in the last month .We sent in our application dossier, our facilitator is translating it and will submit it to the committee on August 23rd. In the mean time we have been getting the last things done for our court dossier ,getting a few forms filled out,a few things notarized, we had to go get a couple more copies of our marriage certificate, get the kids Dr. check up letters, and of course we got our the USCIS letter. We should have everything done by the end of this month and be able to send it all in to be apostilled . Then send it to our agency, who will send it to our facilitator, who will translate it and I think send it to the Judge. so that when we get back from our first trip our court dossier will already be in the Judge's hands and hopefully the Judge will give us a sooner then later court date.
We are working hard on getting money for our first trip we have sold things on Craig's list and had a couple small garage sales. On the 4th I have a table at the doll show where I will be selling my doll collection . So we hope to have the money we will need but I think we may come up $3000 short for the first trip. If you look to the right of this post you will see a chip in that still sits at 0, if you are reading this and would like to help us out you can donate by using PayPal on that chip in. Remember every little bit helps. We have not found out if they are giving us the loan yet, not sure when we will find out.

The next few weeks I really think are going to go by fast and I hope that when I post our 6 month post I will at least know the date that we will be going to see our boy. 5 months does not seem like a long time but when I look back on the last five months I can't believe we have come this far, just a bit more and we will have him in our arms.

Connor and Martin both need a family

There are so many children that touch my heart as I look thru Reeces rainbow.I wanted to post some of them on my blog so I decided to pick two each week. sweet little Connor already has a $10,000 grant how great is that.and cute blond Martin  has $2,118 in his grant fund ,please take a look at their  sweet faces can you see one of them  as your baby?


Connor

Date of Birth: June 2006

Gender: Male

Eyes: Gray

Hair: brown

Character: sociable
Connor is such a handsome little boy, and one with a guardian angel too! Now that Masha Green's adoption is finalized, we finally have approval to begin slowly moving into this region to seek adoptive families for our angels with Down syndrome. And there are SO many, but Connor's adoption must be completed first and foremost.
Connor was born a TWIN with a healthy fraternal twin brother. Mom left Connor at the orphanage and took the other boy home. Connor had a heart condition at birth, but has had corerctive surgery and is completely healthy now. He is quite high functioning...strong, happy, active, social, and affectionate. He is walking/running and doing great. But now he is facing the mental institution, so we need a loving family for him quickly. More photos are available.
I have $10,000in my grant fund towards the cost of my adoption!

Martin

Boy, Born January 20, 2006
1v3o -2H
Martin is a beautiful blonde haired, blue eyed boy who was born with Tetralogy of Fallot. He has an astigmatism and an umbilical hernia (common in children with DS). We are thrilled to have more new photos of him, and they show what an active, social, imaginative and capable little boy he is!! Despite his heart condition, he is growing well, has good color, and does not seem to be adversely affected by any oxygenation issues.
Martin was blessed to be transferred to an older child orphanage instead of the institution, so we are so grateful that he has been given an extended opportunity to find his forever family!!
. Please consider Martin for your son! He is described as a cheerful and playful boy!
UPDATE, June 2010! Congenital heart disease - Tetralogy of Fallot is not present any more in his diagnosis as on February 10, 2009 he underwent a cardiologic surgery. There is no heart condition! He is just being observed by cardiologist once a year.
I have $2118 in my grant fund towards the cost of my adoption!

ok so I cant just put two Thought I would add a girl too so here is  sweet little Phoebe


Phoebe

Date of Birth: April 2009            
Gender: Female
Eyes: Gray
Hair: light brown
Nature: Calm
Oh, look at the glow on this munchkin! Too cute! Wispy blonde hair and blue eyes, this one has a smile that can light up a room. She is so young and at a perfect age for early intervention! From her medical records: Congenital heart defect: secondary atrial septal defect, additional chord in the left ventricle.
FULL MEDICAL RECORDS AVAILABLE, MORE PHOTOS ALSO


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Dossier will be submitted on August 23rd

Found out that our preliminary dossier will be submitted on August 23rd. and that they will send us a date to go meet our boy after they look it over . I was told maybe 2 weeks.so I hope that by Sept 6th we will have our date.

we got the USCIS golden ticket

our uscis I-171H (notice of favorable determination concerning application for advanced process of orphan petition) came today!!!!!!!

the golden ticket!!!!! we have the golden ticket!!!!!! 
 It only took 19 days from the day we got our fingerprints taken, and that was also with a pink letter  sent to us with some things that needed to be added to our home study. 

Adoption changes lives!

Adoption changes lives!
please read what one Mother says about her little girl she adopted just 10 weeks ago.look at what love can do!!!
http://www.nogreaterjoymom.com/2010/08/can-you-believe.html

Waiting

Waiting hum maybe this is the hardest part of all. I have put off a few papers that need to be filled out and notarized for our court Dossier but after we get them done we are just waiting. Waiting for our date. Waiting for that email, phone call or letter telling us when we get to meet our son. Waiting to see his sweet face for the first time. Waiting!! yep this is the hardest part so far.

update

   We got a letter from the USCIS yesterday saying two things were missing from our homestudy, our social worker would need to add them and send in the new amended homestudy.The things that were left out were questions she had asked us. One have you ever been denied a homestudy in the past? NO! and two have you ever been involved in domestic,physical or sexual abuse? NO!. She did ask us these things I guess she just didn't add them to the homestudy. She says it is not a big deal and she will get it done. She is pretty fast about getting things done when they need fixed so I'm not worried. At least it shows that someone is actually working on our application and its not just sitting on a desk someplace.

  We also got an email from our facilitator in Josiah's country, she is translating our application Dossier and she found that my SS number is wrong on the first page of our homestudy. Our social worker had to fix it and send her the corrected page. We are so happy this was found while we still had time to fix it and not when we were sitting in front of the Judge.
We are almost done with our court Dossier we just need the USCIS approval letter a mortgage letter and the kids Dr check up letter, that one is tricky they have to be no earlier then three months before court or they expire. Since we don't know when court will be it makes it tricky.. If we end up having to redo them we will have to pay fully for each one because our insurance only pays for one well child check up per year.
  We applied for an adoption loan... Please pray that they have the funds to give it to us. I don't know what we will do if we don't get it, but I do know we will be OK because it is all in Gods hands.
  Right now we are thinking we will be going to meet Josiah sometime in Sept but we don't know when. That trip is 5 days, then hopefully we will get a court date no longer then 2 month after. and if the 10 days are not waved that trip should also be around 5 days, Then we would go back 2 weeks later to pick him up and that trip could be as long as two weeks.
  Well that's about it for now. We are not always ready for what comes are way for this adoption. But we deal with it and go on! We will bring him home no doubt about that! We just don't know when, but we do know that the Lord has planned this right down to that very second that we walk over our threshhold with him and ever after.

update on cost of Josiah's adoption

I have updated our cost for adoption post so I wanted to bump it back up to the front page of our blog so you can all see how far we have come and what we still need.
Break down of the cost of adoption

We already paid for
*commitment fee $1,275
*agency application fee $375
*homestudy application fee $300
*finger prints $40
*birth certificates $205
*Dr health check don't know yet.
*passports $230
*physiologist evaluation $250
*home study $1,625
*2nd set of finger prints $40
*FBI clearance for both of us $36
*CPA fees $65
*Family Picture for Dossier $170
*USCIS I600a form $830 plus $10 to ship it
*notary for our passports $20
*1st set documents apostilled $250 plus $10 to send them
*agency fee $2,500
*foreign fee of $1000
*apostilling docs that were left out $60 plus $10 to send it
*marriage certificates $35
*2nd set documents apostilled $350
*Dr for 6 kids $120 copay
Total $9,806




First trip
*visas $400
*airfare $2000
*foren fees $3700 includes coordination fees orphanage donation ,translation and notarization of dossier, country tax humanitarian aide and assistance fund
*services $900 transportation ect
*hotel and food $1000 
Total $8,000


2nd trip
* 2nd payment to our agency of $1,925
* $3,700 support and service fees includes coordination fees orphanage donation ,translation and notarization of dossier, country tax humanitarian aide and assistance fund
*our airfare $2000
*hotel and food $4000
*$200 for gifts for officials
*our visa $500
*parent medical exam $400
*transportation by car while in country $1,000
*train in country $400
*translator fee for court $100
*authentication of legal paperwork while in country $100
*child's medical exam $150
*child's passport $75
*child's visa $400
*child's airfare $1,000
Total $15,950


Total for all $33,856


Total already paid                       Total still needs to be paid
$9,336                                                 $24,520


3rd trip
If the judge does not wave the 10 wait (and I hear she is not for anyone right now) then we will have to make a 3rd trip and I'm not sure how much that will cost.
I know it would be
airfare $2000
hotel and food $1000


so far we have gotten $670 in donations.and made $80 in candy sales,$150 from parents night out,$80 in t-shirt sales and $150 from garage sale.so we have gotten a total of $1,162 from fundraising.

Fingerprints USCIS

We got our fingerprints done for USCIS today it was the 3rd time for us to get fingerprints done . 1st was for the state, 2nd was for the  FBI.    This time  they just scaned them in no black  mess that was nice. they were fast and we were in and out in 30 min. now we wait for our golden ticket from USCIS the I-171H.

I wonder

so tonight I find myself wondering,I wonder if Josiah is walking yet? our facilitator said when she went to visit him that he would walk with help. I'm guessing that means he was at the stage where he would hold someones hands and walk or walk around furniture. it has been 4 months since she told us that so I bet he is walking by himself now. I wonder how big he is? she said he seemed smaller then the average 2 year old but what does that mean? in his pictures he looks small but its hard to tell with nothing to reference his size by.I wonder if he is talking yet, and what his voice sounds like? I wonder if he is eating on his own now? she said they were teaching him to use a spoon, so I bet he is doing it pretty well by now.I wonder what he likes to eat,or at least what they feed him?I wonder if he sleeps well? I wonder what his favorite toys are? I wonder if he gets to play outside? I wonder if he is doing well as far as his health? all of these things and a lot more keep me busy thinking and wondering. .