Our current stage in the adoption process

Lately, we have received a lot of questions regarding where we are at in the process of our adoption. Thus, I thought I would share a quick timeline so it is clear that we didn't just start the adoption process a month ago and are now on the waiting list.

November 2008 - Filled out initial paperwork for application to adopt with CWA.

January 2009 through June 2009 - Filled out Dossier, Mailed Dossier, Dossier sent to Ethiopia and translated.

July - August 2009 - Officially on the waiting list to adopt. At this same time we find out that Heidi is pregnant. Our agency's policy (which we feel is a good policy) is to have pregnant couples go on hold with the process until 6 months after the birth of the baby. But, because we already had our dossier in and were on the waiting list, we were told that when the time came we could 'get back in line' where we left off.

January 2010 - Camille is born

July 2010 - We call CWA and let them know we'd like to get back into the process.

August  2010  -- CWA took our case before a review committee and approved us to get back on the waiting list. We had our garage sale Fundraiser and it went incredible.

August ---- whenever - Officially on the wait on the Lord list of a boy under 3 from Ethiopia, probably sometime between mid-September through December.