New Numbers!!

We got our new numbers last week.

GIRL 26

BOY 9

We are so excited!!

Here is a picture of my kiddos "reading" on the couch!!

Our first grader can't sit still when she reads and the little ones follow:)

So CUTE!

This weekend I went to a hair "workshop" for my baby girl's hair.

It was so great to see so many other sweet Ethiopian children.

Here is a picture of my little lady hanging with some new friends.

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I took this from another blog.....



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NUMBERS!!!!

We got our new numbers last week.

I am not as good at this blogging thing as I was last time around:)

GIRL 38

BOY 13

Last month we were

Girl 45

Boy 17

That's a lot of referrals for one month. Actually the day after we got our numbers the boy list moved two spots AND this week the family that was #5 or 6 on the girl list got their call!!!!! That means there have been (potentially) 7 or more referrals since we got our numbers!!!!!!

I have to add a picture otherwise it's not really a blog post:)

Yes, that is a picture of my kiddos putting up the tree!!! I LOVE Christmas and put the tree up every year in October. We are in full swing around our house, music and all!!

Waiting

We are waiting to get our updated numbers!!!

I am so excited....I know there has been many referrals this month:)

WE GOT OUR NUMBERS!!!!!

Here they are.......

Here is the front of the shirts...it says "TEAM ETHIOPIA"

We got the "number call" yesterday evening. Mike was out of town so I thought it would be fun to have the kiddos "SHOW" him our numbers. I decided not to tell him over the phone. So today we drove to where he was and the kids were wearing these shirts.....it was fun!!!!

Looks like we might be bringing a sweet little Ethiopian Prince home this time:)

Not a number yet:(

These pictures have nothing to do with this post......

but I have to have pictures with my post:)

We talked to Julie today and we needed to make a couple changes to our dossier.

We already finished those changes and

will be putting the papers in the mail tomorrow morning.

I think we "should" be a number by Wed. Sept. 9th.

I Can't Wait!!!!

Still Waiting

AGCI has our dossier and we are waiting for them to approve it.

Once that happens we will get our numbers! Woot Woot!

We will be on both the girl and boy list, for a baby.

While we are waiting for our numbers I thought I would share some pictures from this summer.

My big girl on her first day of FIRST GRADE!
Mike took our little lady fishing and she caught her first fish!
They probably should have thrown them back,
but she wanted to bring it home and show the rest of us.



Our 3 year old.......this kid is so much fun!

The ladies of the house.

"I lost my first tooth"

This girl has been waiting so long for a tooth to fall out!! She has been checking her teeth every morning to see if any of them were loose. The big day FINALLY came and she said "I thought it was a dream, but it wasn't!" Since this picture was taken she has lost another tooth.

Man, she has had a lot of "firsts" this summer.

My girls with "piggies" in their hair!!

We can't wait to get on the lists again!!

We are having a blast with all our kiddos.

They are such a blessing to our lives!

100th POST!!! GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!

We have quietly been working on our next adoption!!!!!!!

Our homestudy and dossier are done!!!

We are just waiting for AGCI to approve our homestudy and

we will send in our dossier and be put on the wait list!!!

We will post once we have our wait list numbers!!!

WooooHoooo!!!! We are more than excited!!!!!

Court!

We had court today!!!!

Our baby is legally ours in the USA!!

I wish I could post her name....I love it, but I won't put my kiddos names on this blog.

Our sweet Ethiopian princess in her Ethiopian outfit!!

She is such a JOY!
My little man looking so sharp in his Ethiopian outfit!
He is so much FUN, he cracks us all up!!!

My American princess in her Ethiopian outfit!

She is my big helper and such a BLESSING to us!!!

All three kiddos after court today!

This was a VERY special day for us today!!!!

We had some of our family sitting behind us in court today. I was holding our sweet baby while answering the judges questions and she (our baby) was waving to our family and blowing them kisses:) How cute is that!! When it was all over I said "yeah" and she started clapping and said "yeah"....she also blew the judge a kiss:)

Our children are truly a JOY and BLESSING to our lives!!!!