Getting ready to go out on the town
First playdate
At the Giving and Receiving ceremony -- in the eyes of the Vietnamese government, the li'l Peanut is ours!!!!!! (I did not -- I swear I swear -- dress us both in pink intentionally!)
News and Blogrolls
Blogs I read
- Adventures with Toots and Noodles
- Artificially Sweetened
- Come Undone
- Desperately Seeking Baby
- Fortune Cookie Follies
- Her Very Own
- Hurry and Wait for Baby
- IF and the City
- In a Holding Pattern...
- Inconceivable Journey
- Infertile Fantasies
- It's Not About You
- Miss E’s Musings
- Mother Of None
- Orphans and the Next Generation
- Out, Damned Egg! Out I Say!
- Pamplemousse
- Pho for Four
- Single and Paper Pregnant
- South Meets East
- Southern Comfortable
- Stella and/or Ben
- Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters
- Table Pho Three
- Thalia’s Fertility Journey
- The Impatient Patient
- The Infertile Gourmet
- The Rees Family
- Waiting for Olivia
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About
- Bye-bye IVF, it has most certainly NOT been a pleasure. Now we're days or weeks away from traveling to bring our first child home—a beautiful baby girl!
Adoption Timeline
- 10 March 2007 – Orientation with homestudy agency
17 March 2007 – Sent application to homestudy agency
23 March 2007 – Reviewed list of necessary paperwork with agency rep. The paper chase begins!
03 April 2007 – First meeting with social worker for homestudy
17 April 2007 – Second visit with homestudy social worker. In-home visit.
17 May 2007 – Last paperwork for homestudy sent to agency! Yahoooo!
17 May 2007 – Third and final visit with homestudy social worker.
12 June 2007 – Homestudy report sent to CIS
13 July 2007 – Received I-171 Approval!!!.
17 July 2007 – Notarized I-171 copies sent to our agency.
16 August 2007 – Dossier to Vietnam! We're waitin', baby!
14 November 2007 –REFERRAL!!
It's a girl!!!
18 December 2007 – USCIS in HCMC confirmed receipt of our I-600 form. Just waiting for final approval from them now so we can travel!
