Travel Date

We received news today that we have an April 21st Embassy date! That means we will leave sometime around the 16 or 17th of April to go to Ethiopia. I can't believe that I will be able to hold my sweet boy in less than a month!

This week has really made it all feel so real. We bought bottles and a car seat. We have had a crib forever, and we finished the bedroom a couple of weeks ago, but buying necessities really makes it feel like it is happening.

I'll post more when we have plane tickets!

Happy Birthday!

Today was another exciting day! We received a copy of Oscar Daniel's birth certificate. We found out that he is a month younger than we originally thought.

His birthday is October 18, 2009!

We are very excited about this news and can't wait to hear when our travel dates are. They told us that there are three steps that need to be completed before we can go get him and they need to be completed in order.

The first piece is to get the adoption decree from the court. Once they have that, then they can apply for the birth certificate. They use the birth certificate to apply for his passport and then we should be able to go for his Embassy appointment. We are hoping that it won't be much longer now.

Meet Oscar Daniel Anton

It has been a long, crazy week. Oscar's court date was last Thursday and usually families hear right away what happened. All of the other families heard there news that day, but we didn't get any information! For a whole week!

We have been sweating it out, wondering what happened and finally received the news today. Our name was mistakenly left off the list last week. I can't believe that he has been ours for a week already and I didn't even know!

We hope to travel in the next 4-8 weeks to bring him home. We are able to post pictures now, so here are the two that we have so far. In the first one he is about 3 months old and the second one was taken about 3 weeks ago. He is gaining weight and looks healthy!