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Archive for the ‘Adoption’ Category
Family Day
Today is our Family Day. Exactly one year ago today, we became a family. It has been a wonderful year, challenging, life changing, but absolutely amazing. I cannot believe it has already been an entire year, it flew by so quickly. We celebrated with Ethiopian food tonight, my first try at cooking it. One dish [...]
Making Injera
Tomorrow is our Family Day and I am making Ethiopian food for the first time (hope it turns out!). I am looking forward to adding Ethiopian food to our meal rotation, we all love it, plus it is easy to make vegetarian or vegan. Tonight we made the injera (a spongy bread made from teff [...]
Officially Done
We are done with the adoption process. As part of the process we were required to have three post placement visits by our social worker. (Technically we still have to send yearly report to Ethiopia, but I am not counting those as part of the process.) We had our last visit last Friday and the [...]
One Year Ago – 04.14.2009
Funny I’ve been seeing a lot of the same from Ez the last couple days.
One year ago – March 31, 2009
As our Family Day quickly approaches, I thought I would start a series of post celebrating the photos we were so lucky to receive as we waited to travel. Shortly after our referral our agency lifted the ban they had on traveling families taking photos of the children. We were so lucky to have many [...]
Referralversary
One year ago today we first laid eyes upon the two most precious baby boys. We knew our lives were changed forever and were beyond excited for our future as a family as four. We have enjoyed this past year so much and are looking for many more wonderful years together. Here they are as [...]
14 months!
14 months actually marks a big moment for us. The boys have now officially been with us longer than without. :) I am noticing I have not been taking as many pictures of them, I think it is due to the fact that I can no longer leave the camera in easy to grab places. [...]
6 months
6 months ago today we had this moment: It was the day we became a family! Look how tiny they were! I cannot believe how much they have changed in the last 6 months. They couldn’t even sit up and now they are crawling everywhere and Ez is on the verge of walking! What a [...]
Re-adoption Day
Today was re-adoption day which is the domestication of a foreign adoption. What does that mean? That the boys are now legally Noah and Ezra and we will be getting AZ birth certificates for them. Us and the Judge, he was super nice and Noah really liked him Ez and mom Ez and dad Noah [...]
Last Day
It is the last day of November and that means it is the last day of NaBloPoMo! I hope to keep posting often, just not every day. I wanted to take this last post to remind all the waiting families that it will happen. I know sometimes it seems it never will. I remember this [...]
AZ Court date
We received paperwork from our county court to complete our adoption. December 8th! It feels so good to think that our adoption stuff will be done this year!!!
Tsegay and Almaz
The CHI in-country representative for Ethiopia was able to come visit Arizona with his wife. They did a wonderful job caring for our little guys in Ethiopia, staying with Ezra at the hospital, worrying about them, making sure they received the best care possible. We absolute adore Tsegay and his wife Almaz and were so [...]
It's over!
Hey guess what? I have INSURANCE!!! Yep that’s right, we were finally approved for insurance. In fact, we received a letter of apology saying that both boys should have been covered with no medical underwriting! What does that mean? It means we get to submit all our receipts from the time period we weren’t covered! [...]