One Giant Leap Forward

Adoption Decree - Check

Birth Certificate - Check

Ethiopian Passport - Check

Medical Clearance - Check

Submitted to Embassy - CHECK!!!!

This morning our file was finally ready to be submitted to the US embassy in Ethiopia for review.  (I think going to court right before the holidays slowed our paperwork down a bit...) This is not only a huge step, but also our final step in bringing baby girl home!  In a week or two the embassy will send us an email and let us know where our file stands.  If the trend from the last few months within our agency stands, they will request an interview with her birth mother (who will once again have to make the 2 day journey to Addis) and then clear us to come get her visa and bring her home at that point.  (Please God, let them clear her soon!)  The interviews that have been given recently are a few weeks out...so I'd estimate getting a mid to late March interview date and flying to Ethiopia late March/Early April.  Still a ways out, but sooooo thrilled to see progress!

We're coming to get you soon baby girl...and I promise we'll agree on a name before then!