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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

ZOO FUN!

Kristi, Margi and I took our kids to the National Zoo one day last week and had a great time!! Well, once we got there, anyway!!! Sometimes the GPS doesn't make much sense, that's for sure!! We finally got to the zoo around 11 or so and we did a pretty good job of seeing as much as we could. The kids seemed to like pretty much everything, so there wasn't a stand out favorite animal. They definitely all enjoyed the ice cream at the end of the day though and I have to say that Blake was VERY nice to offer Brady a bite of his *dippin dots* after he told me he didn't want any!!!! ( I had planned to find another type of ice cream for him, but we never saw anything....DOH!!!) And then Kristi was nice enough to give him the rest of hers, so he definitely lucked out!!!

Kyle, Brady, Blake and Kayla

Feeding time!!

Kyle and Brady turtle watching!!

OMG, this tiger was SO funny!!! He was definitely looking for someone or something. In this picture he is looking through the little 8x8 window in the door. He finally gave up and went on with his day.

This guy was pretty darn cute and seemed to be a ham!!!

Posted by Beth at 6:07 PM

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OUR TIMELINE

1/11/07~Signed on with CAI for Taiwan B Program (either gender)
1/17/07~Approved to adopt from TWCA
1/29/07~Fed Ex'd 1600A to USCIS
2/1/07~First Homestudy appointment
2/12/07~Second Homestudy appointment
3/2/07~Received fingerprint appointment today for 4/11/07
3/12/07~Received FBI and DCF background clearance
3/28/07~Received completed homestudy
4/11/07~Fingerprinted
4/19/07~REFERRAL of baby boy, Lin, Chen-Yu (born 2/5/07)
4/23/07~Accepted referral
5/7/07~Fed Ex'd docs to TECO Miami
5/8/07~Received I-171H
5/14/07~Received first set of update photo's and info today; Received docs back from TECO; took docs to CAI for translation
6/1/07~Dossier sent to Taiwan
6/15/07~Received 2nd set of update photos
6/25/07~Notified of Court Hearing on Aug. 6th
7/6/07~Received 3rd set of update photos
8/6/07~COURT HEARING!
8/14/07~Received 4th set of update photos
8/22/07~FIRST RULING
9/9/07~7th Wedding Anniversary/leave for 7 day cruise
9/15/07~FINAL RULING
9/28/07~Leave for Taiwan
10/1/07~GOTCHA DAY!!!
10/6/07~Arrive back to Tampa as family of 3!!!

2/14/08~Move to Clifton VA.
4/15/08~Emailed Taiwan B pre-approval form to CAI for Baby # 2 (either gender)!!
4/17/08~Contract and $$$ sent to CAI
4/29/08~Received pre-approval from TWCA
7/23/08~Contacted local homestudy agency
7/28/08~Applied to homestudy agency
8/4/08~CAI filed Bankruptcy and closed....almost threw up!!
9/4/08~First conference call with new agency, Gladney Center for Adoptions, who absorbed the CAI Taiwan program
9/12/08~Homestudy Update visit with social worker at our house
9/18/08~Second conference call with Gladney
10/8/08~County fingerprints at police station
10/22/08~Cleared federal and state background checks
10/23/08~mailed forms to CPS
11/21/08~Cleared VA CPS background check
11/28/08~Cleared FL CPS background check (had to be done since we just move to VA from FL)
1/9/09~Fed Ex'd 1600A to USCIS
1/22/09~Received fingerprint appointment for 2/17/09
2/17/09~Fingerprinted
3/25/09~Received I-171H
5/8/09~Received referral of baby boy with medical condition
5/11/09~Declined referral because we did not feel comfortable with the medical condition
6/4/09~REFERRAL of baby GIRL born 4/30/09
6/5/09~Accepted referral
6/8/09~Alan leaves for Norway for the week.. BAD TIMING!
6/14/09~Got all docs notarized
6/15/09~Fed Ex'd docs to Secretary of State
6/19/09~Received certified docs back from S.O.S.
6/22/09~Hand delivered docs to TECO DC
6/24/09~Received authenticated docs back from TECO DC
6/25/09~Fed Ex'd docs to Gladney in NY
6/26/09~Dossier Fed Ex'd to Taiwan by Gladney
6/29/09~Dossier arrived in Taiwan
7/16/09~Notified of Court Hearing on August 12th, 09.
8/12/09~Court Hearing
10/4/09~First Ruling!!
10/28/09~FINAL RULING!!!
11/15/09~Leave for Taiwan
11/16/09~Arrive in Taiwan
11/19/09~GOTCHA DAY!!!
11/20/09~Apply for Visa at AIT
11/20/09~Pick Up Visa at AIT
11/22/09~Leave Taiwan and arrive back in DC!!! (2 days earlier than originally planned b/c we were able to pick up the Visa the same day we applied for it)





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