Jump! How High?

In the interst of full disclosure, this picture isn't really related to my update but I think blogs without pictures can be boring so I'm stretching here (plus I love this picture of Noah!)

We've been officially waiting for our referral since April 3, 2009. In the months previous to that date we were working furiously to complete all of the paperwork for our dossier which included having all documents notorized and certified by the Secretary of State in which they were notorized. A lot of other adoption bloggers have very specific timelines of dates they completed each step of the process. Me, I'm not quite that methodical. I just know there was a lot of paperwork and we were very happy when we turned in and could just focus on waiting for our referral. Well, one of our immigration approvals is expiring and now we have to renew it. Renewing this approval means we have to update our fingerprints and update our homestudy which in and of itself is a lot of paperwork including physical exams for all four of us, employment verification, financial information, etc. The good news though is that none of this has to be notarized. It is a bit humerous that we have to update our fingerprints but I just do what we're told.

The good news is we are slowly moving up the list and I think we are now about 9 or 10 for a referral of an infant girl. We also changed our request to 0-18 months old.