AAI group

I have recently joined an AAI adoption yahoo group. It's been so wonderfully insightful and everyone is so friendly! I'm so glad I have this opportunity to talk to other people in the exact boat as I am in, even if they are further up the stream than I am! It looks like families have been getting referrals on average 3-4 months after their Dossier is sent to Ethiopia. How exciting! Since Tim and I are still "paper-chasing" (a new word that describes our situation meaning we are in the process of completing all the paperwork to send to Ethiopia), it will still be several months for us, but it's so exciting to see the amount of babies that are being referred! Before you know it, we'll have a name and a face too!

And while I'm commenting on the Baby, it's so hard for me to not know the gender! It's like being pregnant all over again! Well, the overall wait from our beginning application to referral may be more than 5 months, but I feel the same way I did when I was pregnant, waiting for the ultrasound to see if it was a boy or girl! In my gut I knew it was a boy. (well, I was like 99% sure:) But this is a different ball game! I am still thinking boy, but you never know! Either way though, Cale needs someone else to play with...entertaining a toddler is so exhausting!!