We Have our Appointment Date with the SDA

We are doing the Happy Dance since we found out that our appointment with the SDA is on November 13th. We were surprised as to how soon we are traveling from the time we found out. There is lots to do to prepare for travel.

The expression that Alla uses all the time to describe the adoption process is so true....Sit...Wait....HURRY UP!!!! Boy is that true. We started our paperwork in May of 2007 and finally received our approval for our I-171H USCIS in January 08....then we Hurried up to get our dossier updated and then appositilled to get it over to Valentina in Ukraine before the SDA met their quotas for the year. Then we sat and waited for several months until it was time to update our documents again and then we were in the HURRY UP stage to get them update, aposittled and over to Valentina again...then sat and waited another couple of months and Hooray we have a date!! Now it's Hurry up again and get ready for travel.... WHEW!!! I'm tired just thinking about it but extremely happy our time is finally here.

I didn't realize to the extreme of how happy and excited Andrew is about completing our adoption of his hopefully baby sister as he says, until we went to back to school night to meet his pre-k teachers. The aide in the class came over to me and made a point to express what a wonderful little boy we have but also to tell me about a conversation she had with him earlier that day. She said that she asked him if he had any brothers or sisters and he said that he is going to have a baby sister soon. Then Mrs. Hunter asked him if his mommy had a baby in her belly, and he replied, "No, my Mommy got another lady to have a baby in Her belly for us and that baby will be is baby sister". And we are going on an airplane ALL THE WAY OVER TO UKRAINE where I was born and adopted to adopt her and bring her home." Mrs. Hunter said Andrew was beaming with excitement and was so proud.

I couldn't believe he said all of that to her and went into such detail. I told him the night before that, that we should be going to bring home his brother or sister soon, to prepare him of what is coming up soon and to make him realize that she or he will be part of the family forever and will be here to stay.....just in case he didn't realize that before.

Sorry for the length of this message.....just a little excited!!! =)

Andrew's First Day at Pre-Kindergarden

Andrew was so excited about starting Preschool this year since he is going to the township Pre-K in the mornings and will be picked up by bus and dropped off by bus. We waited and waited for the bus and ended up missing the bus the first day of school. Come to find out that the bus was 15 minutes behind schedule. So I took him to school and was glad I did since Andrew was a little apprehensive with the new surroundings. It was good to see all of the teachers outside of the school collecting the children in their class as they got off of the bus.

Andrew and I walked into his classroom. He was excited to see a cubby hole and closet with his name on it. I ended up getting a picture of him before I scooted off to work. Our little boy is growing up.

I must say I was a little apprehensive with putting him on the bus so if your wondering if Mom had a few tears I must admit my eyes were a bit on the wet side.