Katie, Tim & Cale Nester...

...would love it if you would follow along as we record our adoption journey. We feel blessed to be called to adopt a son from Ethiopia!
About our journey:
- We requested "either" gender, 0-18 months.
- We received our referral of Megersa on Nov 5, 2009; he was 2 months old.
- Megersa's name is pronounced "Meh-gur-sah."
- Our case was submitted on Dec 18, 2009 and our court date was Jan 27, 2010. We were fortunate to pass court on the first try!
- Tim's mom and I left for Ethiopia on March 8, 2010 for an Embassy appointment of March 10, 2010. We passed!
- Megersa met the rest of his family in the US 3.13.10.
- When we re-adopt him, his full legal name will be Megersa Jace Nester.

Monday, January 25, 2010

save the date!

Okay, so I'm putting a hold on my Katie ramblings to tell you some important news:

We just found out today that we have a court date!!!
Wanna know when it is??
It's on Wednesday.
THIS Wednesday!
The 27th!.............circle that date, and pray, pray, pray!!
AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
You know what's crazy? This Wednesday is exactly 11 months from when our dossier was sent to Ethiopia!! On one hand that seems like so long ago, but then I feel like it was just yesterday that we sent in our application to AAI.
Wow.
What a great day!

Before hearing about our court date, I woke up to find that a friend who has just come back from ET with her 2 new daughters caught VIDEO of Megersa, and was able to tell me some great things about him!
So videos, court news...and then pictures! Someone just posted their pictures to Snapfish!
THEN...I figured out by the pictures that Megersa is in the bigger baby room!!
This is excellent news to me, because:
1. it means he's growing
2. He will be put on the blanketed area of the floor with toys to play with - and room to roll over! Plus, there are BUMBOS in that room! Awesome little "King Tut" chairs (as we so affectionately called them when Cale was tiny) that help a baby learn to sit up!
3. He will be with his buddy Tariku! (Okay, Tariku's mommy is MY buddy...but now they have a few months to get to be buddies too!) It's awesome!
What a GREAT DAY!

Plus, we got to squeeze in some free babysitting from friends so Tim and I could get some Chipotle and go see a movie. We saw Sherlock Holmes. Very good!

My heart is full today. :)

1 comment:

Lian said...

Yeah!I'm so excited that you have a date!