Paper baby is going to Ottawa!

I just got the best email today saying that all of our paperwork looks "wonderful" and my caseworker even thanked me for the care I put into it! Woohoo! I am so relieved. I was really worrying last night that I would get an email telling me I had to re-do something.


First stop Foreign Affairs.


Then the Ethiopian Embassy (according to google images this is actually it).

And then..... Ethiopia!

For those of you wondering, once our dossier gets to Ethiopia we will be put on a waitlist for a baby boy under 6 months of age. The current wait times are estimated at 3-5 months. A month ago it was 2-4 months so this IS subject to change. A year ago it was a few weeks! But these wait times are a good thing because it means that more children are being adopted and not living on the street or in an institution. So, in 3-5 months we will receive a phone call and an email with pictures and a medical history on our son! Then we wait for a court date to make him legally ours (another 2-3 months).