Thursday, January 15, 2009

The updates just keep coming...

USCIS (Immigration) Update
Not every update is good news. We have tried waiting patiently with the Dallas USCIS office regarding our pre-approval fingerprinting, but the general responses were a bit odd. Why would it take over a month for paperwork to make it from one side of a building to another? It turns out that the Dallas USCIS office is moving to Irving. *sigh* We didn't know this until after we had already mailed the paperwork to the old Dallas office. With many people traveling only 2 months after the legals were received, the March travel time sounded quite hopeful. I'm not giving up on an early travel call, but it will be interesting to see how long before Rai's entire file is in tact.

Medical Update
About one hour after mailing the completed adoption forms to Holt and USCIS (Immigration office in Dallas), we received another medical update from Holt. As of January 5th, Rai weighed 20.72 pounds and measures 29.7 inches (a little over 2.5' tall). He has 8 teeth total (4 on top and 4 on bottom). The most exciting update is that he can stand alone and walk 2-3 steps alone!

What I would do to be there for those first steps, but we'll be patient. There will be so many other firsts for us to witness and with any luck, his foster mother will have pictures!

Care Package
Tomorrow will be a busy day. Now that we have the official referral paperwork complete, we can send Rai his first package! The family picture book is ready, but I still have about 2 hours worth of video editing to complete before we can send our first package to Korea. Our referral paperwork also recommended that we send some small, laminated pictures of us so that he can hold them. Awww....

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