We've got news, and it's good!

After a few weeks of hearing nothing from our agency we were finally told today that our Article 5 was received by our agency yesterday.  The Article 5 comes from the US Embassy in Claudia's country.  Now that our agency has it, they will send it to the ICBF so that they can set up a day for us to meet Claudia!  Can you believe it, after all of this time of waiting, we are FINALLY getting a date for when we will see our beautiful girl!  Words cannot express how excited we are.  Our agency is expecting the date to be in January still, that is NEXT month!  Can you tell I am excited?  On that day, we will take custody of her for our 5 business day bonding period and as long as the ICBF thinks we have all bonded appropriately, they will refer us to court to begin the completion of the adoption.

The other good news we got today came from the Consulate of Claudia's country in NYC.  I called them to find out if we had to travel to NYC in order to get our Visa's.  They told me that there were exceptions (I think for adopting families), and that we could do it through the mail.  This means we will not have to miss work, pay the toll booths or gas.  It saves us time and money, yay!  Unfortunately the Visa's will cost $250 more than we were originally told plus the express delivery to the Consulate and back to us.  We will be able to get our Visa's after we purchase of flights.  Flights to see our girl! 

Baby girl, you have grown so much since we first fell in love with you.  Soon, you will no longer have
to grow up without a family of your own.  We love you and we look forward to seeing you soon!
Mommy and Daddy are coming sweet girl!