Not a lot has happened since the last post. We haven't heard anything from our agency. Our agency has decided to switch to monthly updates instead of weekly updates! Ah, the torture of waiting a whole month before an update!
Our nursery bedding arrived this week. I love it! The book we ordered, "When You Were Born in Vietnam" also arrived. I will have to practice reading it before I read it to him or her. I can''t get through it yet without crying!
We've started looking at paint colours for the baby's room. We've pretty much decided on the crib we want but haven't purchased it yet. Hopefully all the things we have to do to get ready for the baby's arrival will help make the time pass quicker.
This is our adoption story and voyage to Vietnam to bring our child home.
About Me
- Paul and Lisa
- We are Luke's mommy and daddy. Join us in our Adventures of Parenthood!
Our Timeline (In Progress)
July 2006
- Decided to start the adoption process
- Found a social worker and received initial home study package in the mail
- Attended "How To Adopt" seminar and it opened our eyes to international adoption
- Decided to adopt from China
- Worked on completing initial application which included: individual statements and history, getting forms for police check and fingerprinting, answering questionnaires about considerations in adoption, and signed medical consent forms
- August 18 th - Fingerprint form sent to RCMP and Criminal Record Check handed-in.
- August 25 th – Received adoption package from Children’s Bridge and started gathering our information for the “paper chase”
- September 14th - Received a passing grade on the Fingerprint, Interpol, and Criminal Record Check
- September 18th - Shipped package to social worker
- September 24th - Social worker called, first meeting set for Oct 5th
- October 5th - We had our first home study interview
- October 10th - Decided on a girl's name - Kylee
- October 21st - 2nd home study visit
- November 3rd - Paul's individual visit with social worker
- November 11th - Attended the Adoption Council of Ontario Resource Exchange
- November 18th - Attended an Adoption Panel put on by Children's Bridge
- November 23rd - Lisa's individual visit with the social worker
- December 21st - Final home study visit
- January 7th - Received our home study by email for editing
- January 8th - Found out China would be a minimum 2 year wait for a referral once our dossier arrived in China. We were devastated. However, we were told about Vietnam and we got thinking about switching to Vietnam.
- January 10th - Talked with our social worker to get her thoughts and contacted the Vietnam contact at Children's Bridge
- January 11th - Decided to adopt from Vietnam. Got all the forms and packages emailed to us and filled them out.
- January 17th - Meet with social worker to receive our completed home study.
- January 18th - Sent our dossier to Children's Bridge
- January 19th - Our dossier arrived at Children's Bridge and home study was sent off to the Ministry for approval (expecting a 8-12 week wait) and translation of our dossier began.
- February 15th - Home study was approved from the Ministry
- February 26th - Dossier sent to Vietnam
- March 1st - First TwinRx shot
- March 24th & 25th - Adopt Talk seminar
- March 27th - Children's Bridge tells us to start immigration paperwork immediately
- March 30th - Children's Bridge sends out it's first identified child referral this week!
- April 3rd - Second TwinRx Shot
- April 13th - Mailed completed Immigration Paperwork\
- May 1st - Received immigration kit
Blog Archive
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- July 2007 (2)
- June 2007 (2)
- May 2007 (2)
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- March 2007 (2)
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