Where has 9 months gone...oh wait, to my belly...as everyone knows we are expecting our first babe any day now.
Simultaneously, we are working on the Adoption as well. February 5th we heard from our Agency that ICBF had finally reviewed our packet and needed our updated med records and FBI prints. We sent those in last month and we are now officially approved from the Colombian government. Wahoo! Once we have the baby, we will notify them of the change and then will resume the process once the baby is 1 y.o. (ICBF requirement).
It has been crazy down there, ICBF has been trying since last summer to get their arms around their case workload and ensuring that the children available are truly available. ICBF and other Hague treaty countries (US included) met last month to discuss what has been uncovered and come to a general decision on Colombian adoptions. They decided that they will no longer be accepting new applications for a single child 0-6 y.o. in order to process through the families they currently have waiting. This does not impact us in anyway as they had already reviewed our case and we are looking for a sibling pair 0-7 y.o. Our agency does not know if this process change will speed up the referrals, they have asked and are waiting to see what happens. There are still thousands of orphans there and hopefully with the help of the other HAGUE countries those babes will be able to be matched with their families sooner rather than later.
Our hearts are still in Colombia and we look forward to seeing how these changes positively impact the process and are hopeful by next year they will be ready for us to meet our babes! :)
Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we journey down the child birthing process! Eek!!
Hearts and stars!!
M and C
