I’ve been such a bad blogger lately. Guess my mind has been elsewhere. I’ve been working on updating our home study so we can get our I-797 renewed. The thing is, it expires June 12. Our Visa appointment is tentatively scheduled for June 5. We could wait and see if we pass court on May 12, but if for some reason we don’t we wouldn’t be able to travel on our expired I-797 if court gets rescheduled. With the way the courts have been lately in ET, there’s no way I’m going to risk it. It didn’t take me long to decide to renew it. I WAS NOT going to risk being able to pick up our little guy!! He’s already waited too long and so have we!

Speaking of updating our home study…it’s a major pain in the ass, but I think my biggest complaint about having to do everything again is since February 6 we’ve had to get fingerprinted three times!! The first time was to get an extension on our I-797 fingerprints for immigration, the second was for GBI (state record check), and third was for the FBI! Come on people, there’s got to be a better way! Our fingerprints haven’t changed since the first time we did them 15 months ago! Okay, done venting.

Our blogger friends, Steve and Aimee, just got back from Ethiopia with their beautiful daughter, Sophia. She is a cutie! They were kind enough to take pictures of our beautiful boy for us! I have never been so impatient to see pictures in my entire life! He looks so well taken care of. His little cheeks have filled out. Aimee says he’s still very tiny, but that’s okay. We can’t wait to get him home and fatten him up.

I’m feeling slightly overwhelmed with all the travel arrangements we need to make. I haven’t even started yet! There’s a large group set to travel at the same time we do, so staying at the HOH is pretty much out of the question. We’ll need to make reservations at one of the nearby guest houses. I’ve been buying our travel supplies for a while now. Everytime I go to the store, I buy something else, so we’re pretty set as far as that goes. The nursery, not so much. We have the furniture and crib, but I haven’t done much else decorating-wise. I’ve been meaning to paint, but I’ve just been flat-out procrastinating on that one. I hate painting! The rest, I just can’t decide what I want to do in there. I feel like I’m running out of time.

Since I don’t have our little guy to photograph yet, here are a few of my current subjects: