Approved!!!

We got word yesterday from our agency that ICBF has approved us to adopt a Colombian child!!!! This is great news and we are excited that our paperwork is now heading off to the regional office where the child we hope to adopt is at. Once our paperwork is there, the regional office will review our file and decide if our family is a good fit for this little girl. If she is, they will update her file as necessary then send our agency an "official" referral for her and we will start showing off her picture to everyone we know and bragging on how adorable she is!! I think we will have a better idea on timeframe after this next step because if her file is out of date, it can take some time to get it updated. The quickest time to travel from the point we are at now that we have seen has been about 3 1/2 months, so that would put us about mid-Sept. We were also excited to see the two passports for E1 and K arrive yesterday after not being sure how long K's passport was going to take. E1 was jumping up and down and yelling "yah yah yah, I get to go to Colombia to get our new sister now!!!!" It was uber cute! I need to take some pictures of the Colombian shield on the stainglass in the basement that was bare until last week, I am going to complete a section each time we reach a milstone in our process. The first square was completed with the Colombia flag when our dossier was submitted to ICBF. I will add the second section now that we have approval and the third section once we get her referral. I am saving the last section for approval to travel. Hoping it will be a cool reminder of where we are at and how far we have to go!