Pitty Party!

So I think I am having a break down and so soon after a wonderful Christmas. Our second adoption has by no means been going easily. We were spoiled by Gage's adoption in that everything was smooth. None of our paperwork had to be redone and although our social worker had a few hiccups with a personal situations that delayed us (only about a week) it was easy. Now onto adoption number 2. If I ever get this darn dossier together and correct it will be a miracle. We have had issues with our new social workers timeliness and accuracy. Again we were spoiled with our first one she really bent over backwards for us. So let me vent about the mistakes that have happened:
1. The notary at my work who verified my employment letter has the wrong date on her stamp so I couldn't get it county certified...
2. Chris's radiologist doesn't understand that we need our letter from her to be notarized. We are working around that.
3. My home study is wrong and is being redone with the correct financials and correcting that Gage's name is not GABE!! A big pet peeve of mine.
4. Our psychological reports took longer than expected because they needed to talk with our social worker.

There are many more little intricacies that I will not discuss here, but I am fed up and trying to find a way to stay positive! I never understood why people thought this process was hard.... Hummm yeah I get it now!!! The mayhem can stop at any time:)

Please give me the patience to understand that these delays are happening for a reason. We will be united with our child at the right time.

Gage turned TWO

I promised pics of Gage's birthday party.... He turned two on December 10th and we had his party on the 15th. He is becoming a big boy. Just today when we were walking down the stairs I started counting 1, 2, he said 3, 4, 5, he said 6! What!!! We do this all the time, but he never really responded before. This time he got all the way to 11 (all the stairs we have.) It's amazing how much he really does know. I guess that means Daddy has to be more careful with what he says... Ha ha! Everyone who knows Chris knows what I am talking about so I need to say no more. Enjoy the pics.

AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I 171 H!!!!!

Another milestone in our Colombian adoption!!! The US has approved us for another child!!! Now we have to send our dossier to Colombia and wait for their approval. They are stating 6-8 weeks now, but I don't know if that is a confirmed time frame since this has just recently changed. We expect to have our paperwork down there by the 2nd week of January. So we should know if we are approved by March. Then the real waiting begins!

Okay so it's been a while....

I have been absolutely swamped lately and have not given much thought to updating here... So my promised pictures have not happened and it's been a month. I think I need to fix that:) Gage was baptized the Sunday after Thanksgiving so here are some of those as well... I should have some more soon after Gage's Birthday party in a couple weeks.