May 5th marked the end of month 3 of waiting. April had a total of 28 referrals for infants, toddlers and older children. So, congratulations to all the families who have recieved word that they will soon bring home their children to their "forever families". John listened to the latest conference call for all of us still waiting. Right now, America World is saying the wait for infants will not change. Even though there have been many more referrals in the past couple months than even they were expecting, that will not change the infant wait time of 9-11 months. Furthermore, they explained that court dates are taking anywhere from 8-16 weeks to receive once your referral is obtained. So, once again it looks like our "best case scenario" is being pushed back. Although, we are dissapointed that it could be even longer before we bring our baby home, we are becoming better at waiting. This past month, John put in an attic ladder so that we can start moving things out of the office and we can actually start putting the nursery together. I figure at the rate we are taking care of that, we will still be waiting for the paint to dry by the time we get our referral in 6 or 7 months!:) So, to answer everyone's question of "How's the adoption going?" We are waiting and still waiting and still waiting. Much like an airplane circling in the air...we're in a holding pattern...
