picture with Santa

We finally got a picture of Lilliana with Santa. This was going to be the third and final attempt. She has been saying Santa when we show her pictures of Santa, so I thought that was a good sign we would get a picture. When we got in line she was a little hesitant but watched the children ahead of us. When it was her turn she clung to me, but I put her on Santa's lap, got out of the way and the lady snapped the picture. Lilliana was crying, but we got the picture. When we were waiting for the pictures to print Lilliana sobbed on my shoulder and would not look at Santa.

We had our homestudy visit this past Thursday to update our information. It should not take the social worker very long to write our report, since all she has to do is update our information since we had the homestudy completed for Lilliana's adoption. On Monday December 29 we go to Cleveland to have our Biometric fingerprints done, then we send them a copy of our homestudy report and wait for the government to issue our approval paperwork. Once we get our homestudy report we can also send it to our agency along with our Dossier (all of the paperwork that we had to gather to be sent to ethiopia) and then we can wait for our referrals.

We have officially started the adoption process again. On November 11th we sent off our application to Better Futures Adoption Services to begin another adoption. We have chosen Ethiopia because we feel there is a great need at this time for children who need to be adopted and given a home and family. We are asking for two children, some have called us crazy because we are also asking for them to be as young as possible, hopefully under 12 months of age when we bring them home.