Our Adoption Journey To Baby K and Baby L
Summer 2011--We think that maybe sometime in the future we will adopt again...but we are in no rush.
August 22--We get a call asking if we would be interested in adopting a baby girl.
August 28--We see the first pictures of our beautiful Baby K and we start the crazy adoption paperchase one more time.
September 11--Homestudy visit completed.
September 19--We find out that our referral has fallen through. She is not free and clear to be adopted.
September 19--In the same phone call we find out that there are twin baby girls that are available and we say YES to their referral.
September 24--We got our first pictures of the Twins and our dossier is sent overseas.
October 1--Homestudy is complete and on its way to our house.
October 10--Our I-600a is in the mail.
October 24--We have just found out that the twins are not going to be ours. They cannot be adopted after all. We are heartbroken. We wait for another referral
October 26--We got our appointment for our biometric fingerprints--November 18. After we are fingerprinted there is just one more document we'll be waiting for and all our US paperwork will be complete.
November 18--We got our fingerprints taken. Now we wait for our I-171h, which approves us to adopt more children from overseas. Still no new referrals :(
December 31--We got our I-171h in the mail today. We are approved for two children, 0-48 months old. Still waiting to find out who those children will be!
January 6--We have our referrals. Two unrelated baby girls. About six months old. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
January 9--Baby L--our precious Lisette Josephine--has died of malaria. We are heartbroken, but committed to bringing home 2 daughters so we continue to wait for a second referral and pray that Baby K stays healthy.
January 19--Another new referral--a baby girl about six month old. We have decided to stick with the L names, so she will be our new Baby L.
February 9--Our baby girls have passed court and are officially ours.
March--Brian travels to Congo for our Embassy appointment. While there we find out the Embassy won't issue our visas due to a glitch in our paperwork. We will have to go back to court.
May--It's finally time. We are both headed to Congo to bring home our baby girls. The wait is FINALLY over!
May 6--The girls are handed over to us. They are our daughters.
May 12--We are headed home to become a family of eight. Our newest additions are Katriel Judith and Louise Josephine.
October 24--We have just found out that the twins are not going to be ours. They cannot be adopted after all. We are heartbroken. We wait for another referral
October 26--We got our appointment for our biometric fingerprints--November 18. After we are fingerprinted there is just one more document we'll be waiting for and all our US paperwork will be complete.
November 18--We got our fingerprints taken. Now we wait for our I-171h, which approves us to adopt more children from overseas. Still no new referrals :(
December 31--We got our I-171h in the mail today. We are approved for two children, 0-48 months old. Still waiting to find out who those children will be!
January 6--We have our referrals. Two unrelated baby girls. About six months old. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
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| Katriel's referral picture |
January 9--Baby L--our precious Lisette Josephine--has died of malaria. We are heartbroken, but committed to bringing home 2 daughters so we continue to wait for a second referral and pray that Baby K stays healthy.
January 19--Another new referral--a baby girl about six month old. We have decided to stick with the L names, so she will be our new Baby L.
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| Louise's referral picture |
February 9--Our baby girls have passed court and are officially ours.
March--Brian travels to Congo for our Embassy appointment. While there we find out the Embassy won't issue our visas due to a glitch in our paperwork. We will have to go back to court.
May--It's finally time. We are both headed to Congo to bring home our baby girls. The wait is FINALLY over!
May 6--The girls are handed over to us. They are our daughters.
May 12--We are headed home to become a family of eight. Our newest additions are Katriel Judith and Louise Josephine.
