I'm sorry,...what did you just say?...

So now we have our DTE (Dossier to Ethiopia) date. This date determines your place in line along with all other waiting families from America World. We received our DTE date as 2/6/09. It's from this date that we will now wait aproximately 9 months to receive our referral. Which seems like an eternity but all we can do is wait. I forgot to mention an important part of our journey along the way. One Sunday morning after we had told all the kids at the church about the adoption, some of them wanted to discuss names. They were very helpful and suggested things like Mario, Banana, Luigi...and so on. One of the girls decided that she was going to start calling the baby Yoshi, stating that it was easier to say that than say him/her all the time (since we don't know for sure the sex of the baby). That seemed funny at first, but it has stuck. So much so that whenever anyone refers to the baby, that's what they say. Prompting a lot of people to say..."I'm sorry, did you just call your baby Yoshi?"...