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Long Time No Blog

Well I am so sorry it has been so long since I have blogged. Life with Birtukan whom we now call Peyton Birtukan has been wonderful! So many changes have happenned since she came home! I quit my wonderful full-time job to be home for all of my children more and other than when Peyton is in preschool, she gets to spend her days with me! I now drive a school bus for Zach and Sabrina's school district. Peyton rides with me and I am off of work the same days as my kids! I don't have much time to post since we are also selling our house and buying a larger house.......I had thet most awesome conversation with a good friend today about Ethiopia and I do hope that a trip to Ethiopia will be in my future!!!!!!!

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.