Delivery

Well, two of my good friends delivered their babies this week, and we did some delivering of our own.  

Here's James holding all three copies of our dossier on the train to NYC on December 19.  Notice the blizzard outside his window.  While beautiful snow was falling in CT, slush and slop were puddling up the streets of New York.  We covered and guarded our papers to keep our little family safe from the storm.

Here I am at Kinko's after photocopying the documents we picked up from the consulate.  We tucked them all into an overnight delivery box and mailed them off to AWAA.  The sweet clerk at Kinko's noticed the address on the box and wished us Happy Holidays and, "good luck with your adoption!"  

Now we're down to the last few hurdles before we can be a family!  The hurdles that remain are:

1. AWAA reviews our dossier
2. The translator translates everything to Portuguese (should take a week)
3. The dossier goes to Brazil and we wait for Brazil to approve as prospective adoptive parents
4. The Brazilian court matches us with waiting children
5. We travel, co-habitate with our kids for 30 days in the state where they live, and finalize the adoption in a Brazilian court
6. Then we come home and start figuring out what it looks like to be a family of 4!