Our Ethiopian Adoption Journey: My daddy is pretty great too!

Our Ethiopian Adoption Timeline

Jun 19, 2011 - HOME!!!
Jun 12, 2011 - Seth is ours forever!
Jun 10, 2011 - Leave for Ethiopia to bring our SON home
Jun 7, 2011 - VISA VISA VISA
May 30, 2011 - Documents arrived in Nairobi
May 28, 2011 - Seth turns 2-years-old!
May 27, 2011 - Documents sent to Nairobi
May 17/20, 2011 - Passport issued/received
May 11/17, 2011 - Birth Cert. issued/received
May 11, 2011 - Support letter issued
Feb 7, 2011 Order of Adoption received
Jan 28, 2011 - Court #9 - WE PASSED COURT!!!!!!!!!!!! We have a SON!!!
Jan 25, 2011 - Court #8
Jan 21, 2011 - Court #7
Jan 12, 2011 - Court #6
Dec 30, 2010 - Court #5
Dec 17, 2010 - Court #4
Dec 13, 2010 - Court #3
Nov 25, 2010 - Court #2
Nov 5, 2010 - Court #1
Nov 3, 2010 - Laura meets Seth
Oct 31, 2010 - Laura leaves for Ethiopia
Oct 25, 2010 - Court date changed to Nov 5, 2010
Oct 7, 2010 - Court Date received, set for Dec 7, 2010
Sep 28, 2010 - Court re-opens in Ethiopia
Sept 21, 2010 - Court File # issued
Aug 6, 2010 - Court closes in Ethiopia
Jul 16, 2010 - OUR REFERRAL - 13.5 month old beautiful boy
Dec 16, 2009 - First referral since bankruptcy.
Nov 30, 2009 - Offically Waiting...again - New Imagine announces 246+ families will continue!
Nov 16, 2009 - Mailed new retainer agreement
Oct 1, 2009 - Imagine resumes operations
Sept 29, 2009 - Successful court approval to bring Imagine out of bankruptcy
Sept 21, 2009 - "YES" Vote to Restructure Imagine
July 14, 2009 - Imagine Bankruptcy
Feb 24, 2009 - Citizenship Par 2 sent
Nov 28, 2008 - Citizenship Part 1 approved
July 24, 2008 - Citizenship Part 1 sent
June 30, 2008 - Dossier arrived in Ethiopia - WE ARE EXPECTING a 0-18 month old boy/girl
Jun 26, 2008 - Dossier to Ethiopia. Domestic Adoption put on hold in MB (Grrrr).
Jun 5, 2008 - Dossier to Imagine
May 22, 2008 - Dossier to province for approval
Apr, 29 2008 - Homestudy completed and submitted to local agency
Feb 8, 2008 - First meeting with our local agency to submit international adoption application

Our Ethiopian Adoption Journey

Saturday, September 17, 2011

My daddy is pretty great too!

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