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- 12/13/08 Journey Complete after 513 days!
- 12/13/08 Arrive Home!!!
- 12/12/08 Leave Vietnam
- 12/9/08 Receive Aiden's passport and visa!
- 12/9/08 Visa Interview
- 12/7/08 Fly to Hanoi from HCMC
- 12/2/08 Visa medical appointment
- 12/2/08 Apply for Aiden's passport/visa picture taken
- 12/2/08 Fly to Saigon from CaMau
- 12/1/08 Giving & Receiving Ceremony
- 11/30/08 Fly to CaMau and meet Aiden Bao!
- 11/29/08 Arrive in Vietnam
- 11/27/08 Leave for Vietnam
- 11/18/08 Travel dates confirmed
- 10/27/08 I-600 preliminary approval!!!
- 10/7/08 I-600 receipt received
- 10/3/08 I-600 filed
- 9/3/08 Referral Day!
- 9/1/08 MOU expires
- 9/1/08 Official Referral Confirmed!
- 8/15/08 Heart of definite match
- 8/3/08 #2 waiting for referral
- 5/9/08 #2 waiting for match
- 4/29/08 #7 waiting for match & referral
- 4/25/08 Vietnam adoption world turned upside down. Vietnam will process referrals made by September 1, 2008.
- 4/14/08 #7 waiting to be matched
- 4/14/08 #8 waiting for referral
- 3/26/08 #8 waiting to be matched
- 3/26/08 #12 waiting for referral
- 3/14/08 #8 waiting to be matched
- 3/12/08 #16 waiting for a boy
- 2/25/08 #17 waiting for a boy
- 2/18/08 DTV!
- 2/4/08 #22 for a boy
- 1/28/08 DOS posts warning about adopting from Vietnam
- 1/21/08 Dossier to San Francisco
- 1/18/08 Dossier to Agency
- 1/17 & 1/18/08 Dossier State Certified
- 1/11/08 HS #2 approved
- 1/7/08 HS Draft 2 received
- 12/29/07 mailed app to agency #2
- 12/29/07 I-171H received!
- 12/10/07 Fingerprinted at USCIS
- 11/21/07 HS sent to USCIS
- 11/20/07 Agency Approved HS
- 11/12/07 Agency is holding all dossiers after Dec. 1
- 11/9/07 Federal Background Clearance received- FINALLY!
- 10/31/07 Requested 2nd Dr. letter
- 10/24/07 USCIS changes filing process for I-600
- 10/22/07 Re-fingerprinted for FBI
- 10/17/07 HS draft received
- 10/16/07 Mailed Contract to agency
- 10/5/07 Local Police Clearance Received
- 10/4/07 Physical for HS
- 10/3/07 Home Visit
- 10/2/07 Fingerprints for State/FBI
- 9/28/07 Filed I-600A
- 9/26/07 Homestudy Office Visit
- 9/21/07 Completed my 4 pre-adoption classes
- 9/21/07 Received Welcome email from agency
- 9/18/07 Application Mailed
- 9/6/07 Registered for Pre-Adoption Courses
- 9/4/07 Final call to "the" agency
- 8/25/07 Attended adoption seminar
- 7/20/07 start agency research
- 3 Continent Family
- Beautiful Mess
- Bees Knees
- Bunny's Mom
- Days of the Dragon
- Finding Gracie in Vietnam
- For the love of a girl
- From God's Arms...
- From Honolulu to Hanoi
- Groucho's family
- Hannah, Taylor & Hailey (China)
- Harwells
- Henry's blog
- Here Comes the Sun
- Hines Happenings
- Inside the Crayon Box (China)
- Journey to Holly
- Journey to our Destiny
- Journey With Holly
- Just Duckie
- Kinda Crafty, mostly mommy
- Ladybugs and Dragonflies (China)
- Life is just a bowl...
- Life with Tori
- Looking for George
- Love From Vietnam
- Lu Mein Noodles (Bac Lieu Family/IN)
- Lucy in the Sky...
- Malodorous Messes... (Ethiopia)
- moore love than ever
- Morgan's Page
- Mother Mother Ocean
- My Mindless Musings...
- My Minivan Rocks! (Domestic)
- Never a Dull Moment (home)
- Nutmeg Mama
- One blog for 2 girls
- One May Day...
- Our Golden Child
- Our Journey 2 U
- Our Valentine's Day Treat (Ethiopia)
- Patience is a Virtue
- Pho for Five
- Pocketful of Miracles
- Second Generation
- Small Fry
- Stepping on Legos
- Stoll My Heart
- The Baxter Bunch
- The Beginning of All Things
- The Deziels
- The Gregs
- The Long Journey Home
- The Shaw Family
- The Turkington Family
- viet mom chronicles
- We have Been Blessed
- Wishing, Wondering, Waiting
- 12,450 miles (Korea)
- 4 Boys and a Queen
- Apollos's Gal (Ethiopia)
- Bringing Home Baby B (China)
- Bun in the Airplane (Russia)
- Contents of My Heart (Kyrgyzstan)
- Crafty Mommy
- Destination Taiwan...
- Destination: Ethiopia
- Green Grass Grows (China/Ethiopia)
- Jon & Kelly + One (South Korea)
- Journey For 3
- Journey to Our Joyful Plum
- Kisses in the Wind (China)
- Love is Spoken Here (Ethiopia)
- My Little Lantern..(Taiwan)
- Other side of the planet
- Our Little Kyrgyz
- Pacey's Place (Ethiopia)
- Project Stormea (Domestic)
- Slink's Thinks (Russia)
- Sutton Stuff
- Tell Her This (China)
- The Chronicles of Miles (domestic)
- The Delightful Delaney (domestic)
- The Littlest Bundle (Domestic)
- This is Now (domestic)
- Time Well Sent...(Ethiopia)
- Zone Defense
- Adopt Vietnam
- Anit-Racist Parent
- Ethica
- Ethnically Incorrect Daughter (adoptee)
- Exile of Xingnan (adoptee)
- Harlow's Monkey (adoptee blog)
- JCICS
- Misplaced Baggage (adoptee blog)
- Shadow Between Two Worlds (Adoptee)
- Sticky Rice
- Thanh Nien News
- Viet World Kitchen
- Vietnamese Adoptee Network
- Vietnamese God
- Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity
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December
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- {365/365} Last Day!
- {364/365} Happy Birthday, Heather!
- {363/365} Listen to your Mother
- {362/365} Medal #5
- {361/365} Snow!
- {360/365} The Day After
- {359/365} Merry Christmas
- {358/265} Christmas Eve
- {354.355.356.357/365} Gearing Up for Christmas
- {353/365} Super Hero Aiden
- {351.352/365} Christmas Party and Zoo
- {347.348.349.350/365} More Elf Adventures and a Pe...
- {346/365} One More Visit
- {344.345/365} If You Build It...
- {341.342/365} Just Like That
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- {338.339.343/365} The Adventures of Joe the Elf
- {337/365} If You Just Believe
- {335/365} Family Day
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December
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- . . and Baby Makes Two: A Novel
- After Sorrow Comes Joy
- Beyond the Blue
- Bringing Our Angel Home
- Finding Katherine: A Spiritual Journey to Vietnam and Motherhood
- If you Lived Here
- Oceans Apart: A Voyage of International Adoption
- The Pumpkin Patch: A Single Woman's International Adoption Journey
- Two Little Girls: A Memoir of Adoption
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Aiden's Words!
- got it, oh cool, hippo, hot dog, airplane, carrot, fruit, okay, cool, star, flower, candy, treat treat (trick or treat), cheese, please (17 months)
- apple, dark, plane, no, Ko Ko (Kody), keys, cookie (16 months)
- cracker, boat, truck, hebwo (hello), boom, Pabo (Pablo from Backyardigans), hat, pop pop (popsicle), bye bye (15 months)
- ball, uh oh, off, hot, cracker, neigh neigh, pop, pa pa (will only whisper it), hi (14 months)
- go, up, duck, all gone, car, quack quack (13 months)
- mama (11 months)
- more (about 10 months)
- signs: more, please, thank you, milk, all done, fish
8 comments:
I love your fridge and haven't taken down my cards either.
Your toes are going to have me wincing all day. I'm so sorry. I always fear the same when I am unloading groceries and carrying multiple cans to the pantry. Please take care of those poor toes!
I love your fridge too! So awesome. And OUCH to the flooding and the toes. What a way to start a new year! :-/
PS - Even though I know it's a Leap Year, I was very stumped at the 366 for a few moments. Sigh. Not enough coffee...
Yikes! The flooding and the toes are NO fun. :-(
Happy Birthday. :-)
Hope things get better very soon.
So why am I not surprised that you are doing the 366 photo thing again? Oooowwwwie on the toes. And is your fridge anywhere under all those pics?
I'm with you! I love Christmas cards--ours stay up until Valentine's Day. I figure people go through so much effort to make them and send them out so I should keep them up and enjoy them for awhile. :-)
Happy Birthday! :-)
Holy crap at your toes! That made my toes hurt! Love your fridge! Happy New Year to you and your precious son!
Happy Birthday to you! One of my favorite things about Christmas is the cards too!
Just love all of the pictures! You did a great job puting all of that together. Laughed so hard at the "should have napped" pictures!
happy birthday :)
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