Passport, passport, where art thou passport?

Well, we are making some progress and are on the final stretch to bringing Kwame home. We have received our I600 approval, it has gone through the National Visa Center and I am waiting for confirmation it has been received in Ghana.

This would be the best news ever and would mean we could get plane tickets except we don't have his Ghana passport still. I don't know when it was first applied for- probably sometime in March...if not sooner. So that means we have waited about six months for that pesky pasport! Last week we heard that the passport office wanted some additional information to process his passport. It is something not usually asked for and a change in the process that started with us.

Ha, we haven't heard that before! That seems par for this adoption. For some reason when it gets to our turn for something, the process changes which costs us more time.

So I could whine about that but I am so close that once I get the passport, I only have one more wait so that is only one more thing to change on us... there is light at the end of the tunnel!

Our filing of the I600 actually went pretty well. The person that processed it went on vacation for 10 days the day I turned it in and then once she got back, turned it over to someone else even though we had been communicating about it for months on and off so that added a little extra time but I was actually quite pleased that once it was addressed that it quickly moved on and it went through the NVC in less than a week. So for those of you considering filing stateside, it is possible to file here and have it go well!

I did get some pictures from my friend Stephanie who was in Ghana recently. She was so sweet to go out of her way to go to visit Kwame for me. I wanted to send something small for him. Families usually only send pictures and letters after the welcome bag so the kids don't get upset when other kids get things and they don't but since I did not file the I600 in Ghana and he still has not met us, I sent him a little pair of shoes and shirt from us.

Stephanie said he was really shy and that he had gotten hurt earlier that day.

It broke my heart so see his sweet face. I am thankful that he had aunties to comfort him when he got hurt but I wished that I would have been there. Also, his shoes that he wore all the time had big holes in them so it worked out perfectly that I sent him shoes as he was happy to have new ones. Look at his sweet little legs and feet...

I am trying to be patient but am so anxious to get our son home and settled in here. We all love him so much. Even Selina says his name when asked who her brothers are.

Get ready though because once we get that passport... the excitement starts! I will be taking donations for TR and Kyle to do do a few projects in Ghana like I did last year as it worked out so well. If you donated last year and want to participate in that again keep checking back for more details.

Thank you all for keeping up even though I have not been the best blogger lately. I promise I will get better and will definitely keep you all updated when TR and Kman go to Ghana. We still plan for them both to go which will be awesome!