Bye Bye Cavities!!!!!!!!!!!!

Busy Busy Busy

As you can imagine, our house has been so crazy busy since we returned from Ethiopia three weeks ago today! I still can't believe how quick those 3 weeks have gone. Well we have been going along great. Birtukan has had 2 of her cavities filled already and you would have thought she'd been going to the dentist forever. No problems or complaints, she just sat in the chair and did with the nice ladies asked her to do. She came down with a nasty virus of some sort with a high fever of 103 and vomiting and diarrhea to go with it. I ended up taking her to the doctor since she can't "tell" me what is wrong or what hurts and she ended up with an ear infection on top of it all. But the good news is all her blood work and stool samples have come back perfectly fine!!! woo hoo! I am going to attach some pictures from the past 3 weeks and will try not to make it so long in between posts!!!

She is HOME!!!!!!!

We Passed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We passed court and little Birtukan is ours! We have been so busy lately I haven't updated my blog. We leave May 28th and return June 6th!!!!!!!!! I am still floating on cloud 9.

Still waiting........................

Well we are still awaiting travel news. It has been almost 4 weeks since any court passings have been announced in our agency. In the meantime, we had to submit a home study addendum to USCIS. I received a call from a gal in Pittsburgh that received my information addressed to her with our last name spelled wrong, stating that they needed additional information. Luckily this woman was so nice and is awaiting travel news to pick up a boy from China and she sent the letter via email to my home study agency. My SW at our h.s. agency says everything is going to work out just fine and she is working to straighten things out with USCIS. In the meantime, I am on pins and needles.

On the edge of my seat

Well that sums it up! 9 travel emails went out this week. Not mine, but we are definately getting close! So, today we went shopping for travel supplies and I shopped by the what to pack list I got from my bloglist that other travelers have prepared! I was very grateful for it because as I walked in to the store, my mind went a bit blank!!!!!

Now we are back home to take care of my poor little man, Zach. He has not eaten since Thursday lunch which did not stay down! He did have a piece of toast today but he still has a fever that comes right before the Tylenol wears off!

Sabrina is almost completely recovered from the tonsillectomy and does not want to get this "bug" that he has so we've been out of the house pretty much as much as we can! Off to my friend Julie's tonight for a BBQ!!! Should be fun. Pictures next time!

They're gone. . . . .

The tonsils that is! Sabrina had her tonsils removed yesterday. My oh my what a quick procedure it is now. Even though she goes home the same day, it is still considered major surgery, which is part of the reason I am up right now. She is eating a popcicle and having a glass of ice cold tea. The more fluids you drink the faster you heal. This is going to be a long 10-14 days. At least the hard part is over and now we can focus on her healing. On another note, there were no travel groups announced for my agency this week. I was so bummed as I am sure the other waiting parents were. The way I figure it there are about 28 families in front of us to travel so the sooner they get dates . . . . .you got it - the sooner I get one!!!!!! Off to take care of Sabrina - good night!