I can’t believe it’s been over a month since I last shared an adoption update with you. So much has happened since then. Which is really kind of crazy because typically the whole adoption process takes FOREVER!
God works outside the boundaries of “typically” though and He has been blowing us away with his timing. Ok. Now that you are probably completely lost let me back up and explain what all has happened.
When I last left you we had recently turned in our home study to the U.S. Department of Immigration for approval. Typically, approval takes around ninety days and then the next step is to submit your dossier to Peru for approval. Since, ML and I haven’t exactly been Speedy Gonzalez with this whole adoption process we set a goal of having everything finalized and ready for our dossier within one month.
We met that goal… partially because we were still running off of a high from actually finishing our home study. It was tough though because it really is amazing how much paperwork and gathering of information actually goes into the adoption process. It will wear you out!
All our hard work paid off though because February 1 we found out we had been approved by the US for the adoption of one girl between the ages of 0 – 4 years from Peru! That was sixty days quicker than we were anticipating. We are thrilled and got the green light from our awesome social worker, Beth, to go ahead with round two of our physicals for our dossier. All that was lacking on our part was compiling scrap book pages of our family, house, and extended family to be sent to our little girl some day in the future.
(I’ve included all the pages for you to see except for the extended family page. Just in case some of them are a little shy or uncool with their pic being shared out in blogland.)
I had so much fun decorating these pages… thinking about her reaction to them when she sees us for the first time. Thankfully, I had plenty of time to pray over them and for her as I worked on them.
Last Thursday, Valentine’s Day, I turned all our paperwork into Lifeline Children’s Services, our adoption agency!
It was so exciting to have it all out of our hands and to be do it on Valentine’s Day… the official day of LOVE!
Once everything is apostiled (I’m not really sure what that means) our dossier will be sent to Peru. Beth, our social work is shooting for that to happen on Friday.
(Update: Peru will be receiving our dossier today!)
From there it will be a three to six month process of waiting for approval from Peru. Everything has to get translated, questions get asked, and who knows what else before we receive the final approval. God isn’t bound by time though. We could be approved much earlier or later. Whatever He feels is best… and we can’t argue with that now can we?
In the meantime we have started Spanish lessons through Rosetta Stone. I am still just a few lessons in but enjoying it so far. We will see though!
If you are still reading after all these words and so little pictures…. thank you! Again, we appreciate all your prayers through this process, for our family, and for our little girl (possibly already in Peru).
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Noah got her picture taken by the Colombia booth, helped paint a canvas, and made (I did) a lanyard for her diaper bag.
