Adoption Timeline

Timeline August 2009 -January 2011 = just under 17 months
August 24, 2009 - Our application was approved by AGCI!
September and October - We are finishing our homestudy and all of the other paper for our dossier.
November - #46
We sent in all of our USCIS info!
December - #43

2010
January 2010- #36
February- #32
March - #27
April- #22
We were finally fingerprinted!
May- #14
June - #12
We finally recieved our USCIS approval!
July -#9

August #3

August 19th - Unoffically #1

September 2nd - OFFICIALLY #1 !!!!!!

September 18th - REFERRAL!!!!!

October 11th - We have a COURT DATE!!!

November 8th - Baby's court date was passed!!! (We were NOT be present for this.)

December 4th - On a plane to Ethiopia!

December 6th - We met Baby E for the 1st time!

December 8th - We passed our COURT! E is "legally" OURS!!!!!

December 9th - We had to tell our baby goodbye.

2011

January 4th - AGCI called our case has been cleared. Now waiting for a confirmed embassy date.

January 5th - We HAVE an embassy date for MONDAY

January 6th - We are on a plane.

January 7th - We are still on a plane.

January 8th - We have our daughter in our arms!!!!!

January 10th - Embassy date

January 12th/13th - All 3 of us are on a plane and heading home!!!!

January 13th, 2011- We are all home for the first time as a family of 4.