New Pictures and Videos - April 21, 2012

Well, although we can't share these with you yet, we received new pictures and videos today of our soon to be son.  He is growing and looking handsome as ever.  We are all so excited.  Our older son is anxious and keeps asking when we can go and get his baby brother.  It has been 12 weeks now since proposal...but who is counting, LOL :)

Apparently, we are waiting for the Hague Article 16 Letter from Vietnam, which might be signed next week.

Vietnam requests our Acceptance Letter - March 21, 2012

Vietnam has requested our Vietnamese Acceptance Letter.  Apparently, this is a good sign that things are moving along!  8 weeks since proposal tomorrow!

Ministry Approval Letter - March 1, 2012

It's taken just shy of two weeks, however, we have our new Ministry Approval letter (after the recent glitch) and this has been sent on to Ontario and Vietnam.

It is almost 5 weeks since we accepted the proposal for this little boy.  We are so anxious to meet him and bring him home.  I have already been shopping and bought most of what I think we will need AND have started packing!!!  I know it's still early, but it helps to pass the time.

Ahhhh, a glitch - February 17, 2012

It's Friday, 3 weeks after our proposal, and we have received word from Vietnam that the child proposed does not match our home study...ahhh!  Why do these things happen on a Friday???!!!!  Luckily, and by the grace of our WONDERFUL social worker, we met with her, co-ordinated the proper wording we were missing with the adoption director in Ontario, and have amended our home study.  We emailed and couriered the documents to all parties that needed them and now we wait, fingers crossed!

The Official Acceptance to Vietnam - Jan. 29/12

Happily, we received our approval from the Ministry and our official acceptance has been sent to Vietnam!  Now the hard wait begins...will all be okay?  Will we get to adopt this little boy?  When will we travel?  So exciting, but so many questions right now too!

Our Proposal!!!! January 22, 2012

We are THRILLED to announce that we have been proposed a beautiful baby boy.  Currently, he is 5 months old.  He is considered to be special needs due to a blood test when he was born, but fortunately, subsequent tests show he is just fine!  Now we must work on reviewing his medical tests with local doctors and we need to push the Ministry for our official approval letter.  Over the course of this week, we will receive pictures and videos of this little boy to review and show to our doctors.

2nd Homestudy Complete - Jan 21/12

Since we changed provinces, we had to re do the majority of our paperwork, including rcmp checks, medicals, referral letters, etc.  The process took just as long as our 1st home study, unfortunately, but our social worker was wonderful, and very understanding/compassionate with respect to our frustrations at having to redo it all.  We moved mid May 2011 and we are so happy to report that our paperwork is complete!  Fortunately we didn't lose our place on the waiting list, as our new adoption agency works with our old one to facilitate adoptions in Vietnam.  Now we just need the Ministry Approval (generally takes about a week) and we are officially back on the wait list.  Referrals for children who are considered to be healthy still have not started in Vietnam due to their becoming Hague compliant, but special needs adoptions are moving forward.