Almost Done with Home Study!

      This Thursday, February 16 will be our final interview. YAY! We have all of our paper work complete, our references have been sent in, and we have been cleared by DHR and Criminal History. Our Home Study should be finalized before the end of the month. I am so ready for phase one to be over with! Through donations of friends and family we have our next payment ready to pay in full when home study is finalized! Thank you so much to all of you who have given and who are praying for us during this process. Without you it would not be possible. We are so grateful to have such a wonderful support group.
     After this we will move into the immigration paper work and clearance. We will begin getting our Dossier ready to send to China. Not sure about all the steps in this process yet. When I find out more details I will update the blog. This step takes about three months. I am praying it moves a lot faster. Home Study was suppose to take 3-4 months and we are completing it in 2. This is all in God's perfect timing. I know He holds us in the center of His hands. Sometimes it is hard to see Him, but so far in this journey He has been so very clear and the evidence of His work shines very bright. Words cannot describe His power and love for all of us. He is so worthy of all of our Praise!

Meeting Our Kido's

     For our third home study interview our social worker came to our home and was able to meet Cooper and Avery. I have to admit I was a little nervous because with any child under the age of 10 you never know what to expect. I always tell the parents of my students, "I will not believe anything they say about you, if you don't believe anything they say about me!" Well I didn't think she would go for that and with Mr. Personality and Miss Bashful I definately was uneasy. With minor issues I am proud to say they "performed" well and I do mean "performed." After talking with the social worker for awhile Nonna took the kids into the other room to play. I made the comment that I was glad she was there because we would not be able to answer the massive amount of questions she had to ask otherwise. I told her that Cooper would have been dressed from head to toe in his mask and hero outfit with his gun and sword in hand and Avery would be dancing around speaking Spanish (she is hard to understand) with China baby and Uno in tow. Well after about a hour and a half of question after question they performed on que... slinging swords and dancing right on beat. It was hilarious but in all I think she was impressed at how well I knew my kids. She may have even thought we planned it. LOL!

       

Here is Miss Avery at a princess birthday party today.

The flower is to funny! She had so much fun!

This is Cooper with his first championship trophy!

He was so proud!

     Our kids are as opposite as can be, much like their mommy and daddy. I can't wait to see how God has created our other little girls personality. I think we can handle just about anything because she will have to fall somewhere between these two. They are such a joy and a blessing to us. I am a very proud mommy. I know they will a blessing to their new little sis as well.

Summer 2011