we got a phone call today saying that Heidy's interview in scheduled for Friday! But....yep, there is always a but. It is very common for birthmothers to not actually be interviewed at their first appointment. Apparently a psychologist comes in on Fridays to do the interviews and when his day is over he leaves, even if there are birthmothers still waiting to be interviewed that he has not gotten to. Then they go home, the interview is rescheduled and they come back again. We are praying that Heidy is able to get there Friday and is interviewed on Friday as well.
I also learned that once she is interviewed there will be a write up in a fairly short amount of time and then our case goes back to our PGN reviewer. The reviewer has probably already looked over our case, at the very least, enough to notice that the birthmother was a minor. The reviewer could have already kicked us out of PGN for a previo (this is an error in our documents somewhere, i.e. dates not recent enough, notary expired, etc.). We are grateful we were not kicked out already, although there is still an opportunity for us to be kicked out when our case gets back to the reviewer. Once the reviewer gets our case back it doesn't "usually" take too much longer to sign off on the case, however then our case goes to the director of PGN. This is yet another step that needs lots of prayer. It is my understanding that this director needs only to sign our documents, and then we are out. Sounds simple. Nope! The director has let documents sit on his desk for 6 weeks +. Pray that our case does not sit!!!!
praying for a speedy miracle to bring our daughter home!
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Thursday, March 23, 2006
6 month report from Dr. Monteil
Micaiah actually had a dr. appointment just after leaving us on Feb. 24. Here is the dr. report.
Hi! This afternoon I had the opportunity to evaluate little Evelyn Floricelda, she is now aged 6 months and has been, the caregiver shares with me, doing fine in the time since her last visit with me, last month, her development appears to, considering what the caregiver tells me, progressing well she is alert and shows interest in all that goes on around her will turn to sound and responds to the sound of her name, she is also very vocal herself making cooing and some babbling noises of her own both in response and also to call attention to herself, she is now able to roll over completely to either side and will keep the sitting position with support around her back, attempts top grab whatever is nearby and will put everything into her mouth. The caregiver shares with me that her little one takes well her formula and is also receiving her ordered vitamin supplement. Upon evaluation today I found this little one in good health with no obvious physical or neurological abnormalities, her weight is 13 lbs 12 oz, length of 61.6 cms and head circumference of 42.3 cms. She received today her third dose of DPT, HiB and Hepatitis B vaccines. Please find her pictures attached.
Best Regards
Francisco
thought that was a bit interesting...
enjoy the pics
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
6 month pics...
I know this wait will all be worth it when this beautiful little girl comes home. gosh, is she adorable!
footprints in the bathtub?
well, we found an unknown downside to not having Simon around...he was always the one who would stand by the water bowl and bark, then we knew the dogs needed water. Bailey hasn't quite figured out how to get water when the self feed/water system runs out. She goes into the bathtub looking for water. We know when we see footprints it's time to get Bailey more water! hee hee
Monday, March 20, 2006
up and down, up and down...
well, it feels as if every time we get good news, bad news is soon to come our way. Yes we are in PGN, as of Monday the 20th. But yet there is always a catch. We have just found out that there is a new requirement, anyone who has a birthmother who is a minor, Micaiah's birthmother is 13, is required to go through an interview. This is a brand new policy that they have just begun implementing in every case involving a mother who is a minor. So...we wait for an interview to be scheduled (only on Fridays) pray like crazy that Heidy is fulling willing to come to the interview (my caseworkers don't feel this should be an issue as they now have a rapport with her) and then our attorney will send someone to Coban to pick her up and bring her to the interview. My caseworker has said this will most likely hold up our case in PGN somewhat because we will be going through an extra step that not all are required to do. We have no timeframe on how long this will take?
so please be praying for: a interview appointment scheduled very very soon!!, no difficulties with Heidy or her mom being willing to come to the interview, smooth pick up and getting to the interview on time, on the first try. and please pray for Heidy. She was under the impression, as were we, that she was now removed from this situation. Guatemala's government is now making her, for the 5th time, express herself and her decsision to give Micaiah up for adoption. I can't imagine the difficulty this must be for a 13 year old girl!
so please be praying for: a interview appointment scheduled very very soon!!, no difficulties with Heidy or her mom being willing to come to the interview, smooth pick up and getting to the interview on time, on the first try. and please pray for Heidy. She was under the impression, as were we, that she was now removed from this situation. Guatemala's government is now making her, for the 5th time, express herself and her decsision to give Micaiah up for adoption. I can't imagine the difficulty this must be for a 13 year old girl!
Sunday, March 19, 2006
PGN, here we come...but we are not staying long!
I have my hopes high and I feel like all I have been doing is praying! We are officially in PGN!!!!! as of either Thursday or Friday of last week. Friday, March 17, Micaiah turned 6 months old. happy 1/2 year baby girl :o)
PGN is like the Attorney General's Office. they will be looking over all documentation and interviews involved in our case and then approve the adoption for the final time. once that is complete and we exit PGN we have about 2 weeks of gathering birth certificate, visa, passport, final medical exam, blah blah blah, and then we can go pick up Micaiah.
i posted on our networking group of others who have or are adopting from Guatemala. I asked how long PGN is taking, I received three responses:
1. We went into PGN on Feb 17, and got out on March 13. From what I can tell, PGN is moving pretty fast lately!
2. We went in Feb. 27 and got kicked out for 2 previos, still waiting to get back in.
3. Our agency has had several PGN outs in the 12 days to 2 week timespan recently.
WE WILL TAKE DOOR # 3 :o) (this would bring Micaiah home just after Easter, and before Mother's Day)
What a gift it would be to hold my baby girl on Mother's Day!!!!!! Last year Caleb started potty training on Mother's Day, I thought that was a great gift! Do they always get better every year?
other fun stuff:
Caleb got a 2 wheeler from a friend who grew out of it, we (mommy and Caleb) put training wheels on it and he is officially a bike rider!!! he is soooo cute to watch, after only a few falls he seems to have got the steering and brakes all figured out.
then, of course Elijah wants to be a bike rider too! He enjoys holding the handle and walking the bike around!
they are so cute. they have so much fun playing together. Last night our church had a family fun night at an inflatable stuff place (i.e. inflatable basketall court, bounce house, and three seperate very large obstacle courses). The kids had a blast, Caleb raced through the obstacle course with a friend, close to a dozen times!!!! he even went through the one intended for kids 6 and up, and completed it solo about 1/2 dozen times! we were impressed. Elijah's favorite part of the night was basketball! He shot hoops most of the night! The kids really had a lot of fun!
we are so grateful for this precious life God has given us and we are enjoying every moment of it. I feel so fortunate and so blessed! thank you Jesus!
PGN is like the Attorney General's Office. they will be looking over all documentation and interviews involved in our case and then approve the adoption for the final time. once that is complete and we exit PGN we have about 2 weeks of gathering birth certificate, visa, passport, final medical exam, blah blah blah, and then we can go pick up Micaiah.
i posted on our networking group of others who have or are adopting from Guatemala. I asked how long PGN is taking, I received three responses:
1. We went into PGN on Feb 17, and got out on March 13. From what I can tell, PGN is moving pretty fast lately!
2. We went in Feb. 27 and got kicked out for 2 previos, still waiting to get back in.
3. Our agency has had several PGN outs in the 12 days to 2 week timespan recently.
WE WILL TAKE DOOR # 3 :o) (this would bring Micaiah home just after Easter, and before Mother's Day)
What a gift it would be to hold my baby girl on Mother's Day!!!!!! Last year Caleb started potty training on Mother's Day, I thought that was a great gift! Do they always get better every year?
other fun stuff:
Caleb got a 2 wheeler from a friend who grew out of it, we (mommy and Caleb) put training wheels on it and he is officially a bike rider!!! he is soooo cute to watch, after only a few falls he seems to have got the steering and brakes all figured out.
then, of course Elijah wants to be a bike rider too! He enjoys holding the handle and walking the bike around!
they are so cute. they have so much fun playing together. Last night our church had a family fun night at an inflatable stuff place (i.e. inflatable basketall court, bounce house, and three seperate very large obstacle courses). The kids had a blast, Caleb raced through the obstacle course with a friend, close to a dozen times!!!! he even went through the one intended for kids 6 and up, and completed it solo about 1/2 dozen times! we were impressed. Elijah's favorite part of the night was basketball! He shot hoops most of the night! The kids really had a lot of fun!
we are so grateful for this precious life God has given us and we are enjoying every moment of it. I feel so fortunate and so blessed! thank you Jesus!
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
YEAHHHHHHHH, one more paperwork done!
As of today, we are officially out of family court! We should enter PGN, our next step within the next day or two. okay, God, time to work some fast miracles and get in and out of PGN fast!
just a reminder once we are out of PGN we have about 2-3 weeks and we go pick up our sweet baby Micaiah!!!
PGN average wait time last I heard was 4 weeks, I will check to see what it is now.
yeah GOD!
just a reminder once we are out of PGN we have about 2-3 weeks and we go pick up our sweet baby Micaiah!!!
PGN average wait time last I heard was 4 weeks, I will check to see what it is now.
yeah GOD!
what an adventure!!!
we have been busy busy busy.
RANDOM events:
Thursday we sent off for our road trip to Chicago and Wisconsin. We intended to stop and visit with Megan (the boy's cousin). Megan is recovering from cleft pallet surgery. The boys were both coughing we didn't get to visit Megan at the hospital and instead we just visited with Grandpa and Grandma Sutton. We also visited with Ashlei and had lunch at Applebees, she waited on us! The boys were a bit disappointed she couldn't sit down with us, but we all had a great time.
We made it to Wisconsin and had a great long weekend! Caleb and Papa spent lots of time at the barn! Caleb was hoping to see a calf being born, but the mommy cow delivered during the night. He was still so excited to see the new calf.
We went to grandpa's 75th birthday party and enjoyed seeing everyone and sharing Micaiah pictures and stories !
We visited grandpa and grandma pelkie and enjoyed being with them! although we didn't see much of grandpa. We brought our dvd player to show them video of Micaiah and when grandpa found out our dvd player would play any dvd, he jumped out of his chair and found a Brett Farve dvd he had received and we popped it in! grandpa enjoyed watching the dvd with the boys (i'll post pics tomorrow, i'm getting tired)
While in WI we found out a close friend of our extended family was diagnosed with brain cancer. She decided she wanted to marry the love of her life and called Peter and asked him to marry them. They flew Peter to WI on Tuesday and he performed the wedding Tuesday night. What a beautiful wedding! It sure made us appreciate all we have.
While at the wedding my cousin Rosemary graciously watched the boys so we could attned the wedding. I prepared the boys and let them no she would be coming and we would be home later. Caleb says, mommy is your friend rosebush going to....? i don't even know what he said after that, I was laughing so hard.
I also talked with our friends who are adopting from Ethiopia and their little boy was unofficially diagnosed hydrocyphalic (sp?). They just the CAT scan results back that his brain looks normal! YEAH GOD! We are so grateful Ben is even healthier than anticipated. So of course, Keith and Shelley responded with, okay we'll take another one then! They initially intended on adopting 2, but when Ben was thought to be hydrocyphalic they felt maybe it would be best to just adopt him. Now they are back to 2!!!!!
We are all home and happy to be together and home again! Peter spent the weekend painting Micaiah's room! We are so ready for her to be home! no new news yet! still praying things go speedy. we have been home 3 weeks and it seems like forever since I held my baby girl.
RANDOM events:
Thursday we sent off for our road trip to Chicago and Wisconsin. We intended to stop and visit with Megan (the boy's cousin). Megan is recovering from cleft pallet surgery. The boys were both coughing we didn't get to visit Megan at the hospital and instead we just visited with Grandpa and Grandma Sutton. We also visited with Ashlei and had lunch at Applebees, she waited on us! The boys were a bit disappointed she couldn't sit down with us, but we all had a great time.
We made it to Wisconsin and had a great long weekend! Caleb and Papa spent lots of time at the barn! Caleb was hoping to see a calf being born, but the mommy cow delivered during the night. He was still so excited to see the new calf.
We went to grandpa's 75th birthday party and enjoyed seeing everyone and sharing Micaiah pictures and stories !
We visited grandpa and grandma pelkie and enjoyed being with them! although we didn't see much of grandpa. We brought our dvd player to show them video of Micaiah and when grandpa found out our dvd player would play any dvd, he jumped out of his chair and found a Brett Farve dvd he had received and we popped it in! grandpa enjoyed watching the dvd with the boys (i'll post pics tomorrow, i'm getting tired)
While in WI we found out a close friend of our extended family was diagnosed with brain cancer. She decided she wanted to marry the love of her life and called Peter and asked him to marry them. They flew Peter to WI on Tuesday and he performed the wedding Tuesday night. What a beautiful wedding! It sure made us appreciate all we have.
While at the wedding my cousin Rosemary graciously watched the boys so we could attned the wedding. I prepared the boys and let them no she would be coming and we would be home later. Caleb says, mommy is your friend rosebush going to....? i don't even know what he said after that, I was laughing so hard.
I also talked with our friends who are adopting from Ethiopia and their little boy was unofficially diagnosed hydrocyphalic (sp?). They just the CAT scan results back that his brain looks normal! YEAH GOD! We are so grateful Ben is even healthier than anticipated. So of course, Keith and Shelley responded with, okay we'll take another one then! They initially intended on adopting 2, but when Ben was thought to be hydrocyphalic they felt maybe it would be best to just adopt him. Now they are back to 2!!!!!
We are all home and happy to be together and home again! Peter spent the weekend painting Micaiah's room! We are so ready for her to be home! no new news yet! still praying things go speedy. we have been home 3 weeks and it seems like forever since I held my baby girl.
Friday, March 03, 2006
funny, funny, funny
Caleb says:
Mommy we have one bongo drum and Phillip has 2 bongo drums that's three bongo drums!!!! I was so impressed, however he did follow that statement up with
Mommy, I have to go poopy and all the tuna I ate is turning into poopy and it's going in the toilet.
So, I guess he still is only 3!
I just got and email confirmation and phone call from my caseworker while reading my email...
WE GOT PREAPPROVAL!!!!
yeah, we are moving forward! keep prayng we get into PGN soon!
Caleb says, Mommy why are you doing that (I was squealing with excitement). He knows we are waiting for "paperwork" to get Micaiah. So I said, we got some of the paperwork done, it's getting closer, but we still have to wait a while.
He then turned to Elijah and said, guess what Elijah, we got ONE paperwork done. Of course, he said it with so much excitement and enthusiasm. It was adorable.
more pics of the princess
Mommy we have one bongo drum and Phillip has 2 bongo drums that's three bongo drums!!!! I was so impressed, however he did follow that statement up with
Mommy, I have to go poopy and all the tuna I ate is turning into poopy and it's going in the toilet.
So, I guess he still is only 3!
I just got and email confirmation and phone call from my caseworker while reading my email...
WE GOT PREAPPROVAL!!!!
yeah, we are moving forward! keep prayng we get into PGN soon!
Caleb says, Mommy why are you doing that (I was squealing with excitement). He knows we are waiting for "paperwork" to get Micaiah. So I said, we got some of the paperwork done, it's getting closer, but we still have to wait a while.
He then turned to Elijah and said, guess what Elijah, we got ONE paperwork done. Of course, he said it with so much excitement and enthusiasm. It was adorable.
more pics of the princess
Thursday, March 02, 2006
another days events
Last night we took the boys to daddy's last soccer game of the season. Game time: 8:20! Despite it being an hour past bedtime, they had a great time! They really enjoyed watching daddy play, Elijah follows the game better than any 21 month old I've seen! He just loves sports, daddy is soooo proud. The boys had lots of friends at the game so they enjoyed playing soccer as well.
This morning it was 60 degrees at 8:30! We enjoyed the beautiful, but windy day. By 4:00, it had dropped to 47 degrees, YUCK! We had a play date with some friends, 9 kids between 18 months and 3 1/2 with only 3 moms!!!! and I only brought my 2, quite a change, usually I am the one with the extra kiddos.
This afternoon we took Elijah to the doctor. He had been on Saturday and was diagnosed with pink eye. He has had a terrible cough for over a month now, he has lost his voice twice, and just seems to be feeling yucky so I decided to take him in. I thought maybe it is just a cold, but what if it's worse I didn't realize it. Sure enough he has bronchiolitus (RSV) just like when he was little. They did a throat culture to see if he had strep, but that came back negative. She said it's just viral. I sure hope he is not one of those kids who is sick all the time.
Tonight, Peter and I went on a date. Peter and Amy planned a date night for the student ministry. Fathers and daughters and mothers and sons. He gave them litte guides with tips for the parents on not nagging (moms) and treating the girls like queens, tips for the kids, conversation starters, etc. It was relly neat, everyone had a great time!
Well, to this day we have watched Micaiah video every day since we have been home. Missing her like crazy and waiting for the process to do its thing. Please pray that we get into and out of PGN fast!!!!!!!!! While we were in Guatemala I told Peter the thing that made this process bearable was knowing that Micaiah was coming home in God's perfect timing. This was much easier to say when she was in my arms. Now we are praying for a speedy process.
More exciting news, our friends the Walatka's (w/ twins Tommy and Hunter who are Caleb's age and baby Anna) are officially in process to adopt a 1 year old from Ethiopia. His name is Ben! Please pray for them and that their process moves quickly, he is hydrocyphalic (sp?) and needs to get here asap so that he can get proper medical attention.
This morning it was 60 degrees at 8:30! We enjoyed the beautiful, but windy day. By 4:00, it had dropped to 47 degrees, YUCK! We had a play date with some friends, 9 kids between 18 months and 3 1/2 with only 3 moms!!!! and I only brought my 2, quite a change, usually I am the one with the extra kiddos.
This afternoon we took Elijah to the doctor. He had been on Saturday and was diagnosed with pink eye. He has had a terrible cough for over a month now, he has lost his voice twice, and just seems to be feeling yucky so I decided to take him in. I thought maybe it is just a cold, but what if it's worse I didn't realize it. Sure enough he has bronchiolitus (RSV) just like when he was little. They did a throat culture to see if he had strep, but that came back negative. She said it's just viral. I sure hope he is not one of those kids who is sick all the time.
Tonight, Peter and I went on a date. Peter and Amy planned a date night for the student ministry. Fathers and daughters and mothers and sons. He gave them litte guides with tips for the parents on not nagging (moms) and treating the girls like queens, tips for the kids, conversation starters, etc. It was relly neat, everyone had a great time!
Well, to this day we have watched Micaiah video every day since we have been home. Missing her like crazy and waiting for the process to do its thing. Please pray that we get into and out of PGN fast!!!!!!!!! While we were in Guatemala I told Peter the thing that made this process bearable was knowing that Micaiah was coming home in God's perfect timing. This was much easier to say when she was in my arms. Now we are praying for a speedy process.
More exciting news, our friends the Walatka's (w/ twins Tommy and Hunter who are Caleb's age and baby Anna) are officially in process to adopt a 1 year old from Ethiopia. His name is Ben! Please pray for them and that their process moves quickly, he is hydrocyphalic (sp?) and needs to get here asap so that he can get proper medical attention.
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