First, the pictures:
Maggie is SOOO happy when she gets to do what Anna does:
She thought dot painting was a little boring and not nearly messy enough:
Anna and I like dot painting though! (Thank you Grammy!)
Here’s a napkin picture for you dad! Somebody should tell her that they are for wiping her mouth during lunch instead of wearing. Ok, I did, but she didn’t care. 🙂
We made a “Fun Box” with fun special things to do written on slips of paper inside. Anna gets to choose one every day. We’ll see how it goes!
I love my new apron! Anna helped take a picture for me after I unwrapped it. Thank you Hollye!
Maggie woke up sooooo groggy today. She came over to me and just wanted to sit on my lap and sit, sit, sit and snuggle. This is not very usual for our wiggle bug. She IS a cuddly girl and needs her mommy time, but staying still for that long is not normal. Anna joined us and Papa snapped a picture, since he was working from home today.
On adoption:
Our attorney in Eastern Europe (EE for short) should be receiving files on a number of children late this month. Four-seven of them will fit within our adoption parameters (under three years old, has Down Syndrome). Once she has the files, we can read through them and see if two of them seem like a good fit together and also see whether they are in the same area of the country or not. If they are NOT, then we would have to decide if we wanted to lengthen the first trip (don’t want to do) or adopt one child instead of two. We are VERY eager, yet at peace and patient to wait to see who our child(ren) will be.
Our paperwork is in process with USCIS still (US immigration) and the next piece of paper we will get from them is a biometrics appointment, or an appointment to get fingerprinted. We plan on walking in before our appointment to get printed. After we get printed, we wait to:
a. Get a request for more information before we can be approved
b. Be approved
We are getting closer to having a complete dossier to send overseas! Yippee! We could travel on our first trip as soon as April, although May/June is more likely. Then 4-5 month wait and we should have a bigger, crazier family sometime between August and November! I am trying to remain 100% flexible on the timeline and not be frustrated if it is longer than anticipated…. but I need to be ready in case it only takes this long. Yay!