Home Study

We have been given a social worker and a home study appointment has been made!! Our social worker Jodi seems very nice and we're looking forward to meeting her! I'm sure you're wondering what a home study is and why we're excited about it. The home study is when a social worker comes to your house and evaluates your home and mental state. That's how I like to explain it anyhow. We're hoping we pass this one.. since we have 2 pretty normal kids and a rad marriage. =))) haha So Jodi will come to our house and meet us and the boys for 6+ hours. Then she will write a huge report on us. That will take about a month for her to write. Our appointment is for June 18th, so if you can say a little prayer for us on June 18th we would appreciate it.

Because I think it's more entertaining with pictures....

This is the newest addition to my etsy website.. Wipe covers, not just for babies, I keep on in my car for the boys and their sticky faces and fingers.

And for the duck lovers...

I can make these in any of the bib fabrics you see on my esty site, but these are my favorite so far. I will tell you Aidan is totally disgusted with me that I would even own this fabric. "Do you like the ducks?!!?!" he asks me. Too funny.

Etsy website: http://www.etsy.com/shop/bibsbyleecoe?ref=shop_sugg

Paperwork

Paperwork is DONE!!! Bryan mailed the last of the paperwork in to the agency on Friday. What a feeling of relief. Just in time for the weekend so we can relax.. haha not really, but relax from paperwork. We have our monthly call from the agency tomorrow and we can't wait to tell her the news.

Next step is the home study! So we have been doing some decluttering this weekend in preparation. Which means throwing the boys junky toys away. We will also need to set up the baby's room to show the social worker we have a place for the baby.. not sure how the transfering of furniture is going to work.. but I am excited to put the crib up. =)

Happy belated Mother's day! Super blessed to have these cute little guys. Hope you  have a great week!

So close!!

Oh man, we're so close! We had our physician letters filled out today, which was one that we've been putting off. Mainly because we knew we were going to have to wait for a long time to be seen. But she gave us the stamp of approval and we were on our way. But we did indeed have to wait longer than I wanted to, with two cranky kids. I forgot to bring food and entertainment, so I'll take part of the blame for the crankiness.

We have 2 outstanding documents that we need other people to complete for us and one more form that we have to fill out. Bryan is filling our final document out as I type. YAY!

So what happens after we finish? We submit the remaining paperwork and they schedule an appointment to come to our house and make sure we're suitable parents..  which we're really hoping we pass, since we already have 2 children and we think we're doing a pretty good job with them. haha Then they do a little report on us and then our family album can be shown to birthmothers!!

Education is DONE!!

OHHH YEAH!!!! Finished our education that is required..  Another one bites the dust! I'm excited, can you tell? I will say there are a few more classes we want to take before we welcome our bundle of joy into our lives.

We have 5 more items to complete.. one might say just finish it up already.. well it's not that simple! Most of the items require someone else to complete for us. We constantly have to remind ourselves to be patient.. it will all come together. God has already picked out our child. So hang in there with us.. we can see the light at the end of the paperwork tunnel. We received a huge binder full of paperwork at the beginning of our journey and the binder is almost empty!

Education

The boys are such a hoot! These are their funny faces... I use this as a tool to get nice photos out of them.. Do funny faces and then do one nice one for me. Pick you battles.. =) They love looking at the funny face ones.

We've been busy getting educated. =) We have completed 3 of the courses and have 3 more to go. We're chugging right along, but I must say this part is taking a little longer than I expected  Seems funny to hurry up so we can wait. =) Anyways, hope you're having a great week and this picture made you smile.

FBI

Fingerprints are back from the FBI!! Sounds not so exciting, but trust me it's exciting! This means we should be getting to schedule our homestudy very soon! Once the homestudy is done then birth mothers can start looking at our family album. Once birth mother's start looking at our album.. we will get picked. =) Simply wonderful!

Bib sales are going really well! Sister-in-law Erin helped me with making some new things for the etsy website. Pacifier clips and burp cloths to match the cute bibs I already make.

Coming soon, grandma's dish cloths, these are my favorite. My grandma will be teaching me later this month so I'll be so excited to post those!

and we wait....

Here's the update.. not much.. still waiting on our fingerprints to get back from the FBI. Yep, they don't just give anyone a baby. We are working on little bits of paperwork. Getting copies of marriage license, driver's license and other simple stuff. But on the plus side we have been doing some great fundraising! We have cleaned a few of Bryan's rentals and that has been great money for the time. I have also sold a total of 20 bibs. It's so neat to think that people will be giving my bibs as shower gifts and little ones will be wearing them.. super cool!
Other ways to help us fundraise is.. have a thirty one party (25% of proceeds go towards our adoption), coming soon is a partylite fundraiser (50% of the proceeds), pop cans (yep every penny helps) and soon the puzzle piece fundraiser! Also thinking of doing a garage sale early this summer if anyone has things they'd like to donate. Thats the skinny! Happy sunday all!
Em