Today you are a mystery, little man. I wonder about you. I wonder what you'll be like, what you'll look like. I wonder where you are. What you're doing. The road to you is a long one but we're making progress everyday! I'm always trying to come up with a "rough estimate" of when you might be coming home. It normally goes something like this...
Say it takes us another month to finish and submit our dossier....
From what I can tell the average wait for a baby boy is about 9 months...
Then maybe our court date will be a couple months after that...
Another 6 weeks and your home
So by these calculations, we'll bring you home in July of 2011!
But I don't usually stop there. I like to make it interesting and try to guess how old you are.
Say, you're 5 months old at the time of referral (which would mean that you're in someone's belly RIGHT NOW!!) then we would be bringing you home at about 9 months old! Think of all the fun things you'll be learning!! Someday soon I'll get to know your name and see your face, but today you are a mystery.
So inspired by "Top Chef Master" Marcus Samuelsson! He was born in Ethiopia and adopted into a Swedish family after his mother died when he was three. When he traveled back to Ethiopia as an an adult, he grew to love the rich flavor of the the food and culture there. He was inspired to bring African cuisine back to America. I can't wait to tackle one of his recipes.
The Home Study is officially done! We've started pulling together documents for the Dossier. Last night when Aaron was looking over some of the details (he's better at details) he found out that a few of our documents have to be redone due to notary expiration dates. BOO! Other than that little set back, we're doing good. Going back to the Police Station tomorrow for fingerprints!
Today you are a mystery, little man. I wonder about you. I wonder what you'll be like, what you'll look like. I wonder where you are. What you're doing. The road to you is a long one but we're making progress everyday! I'm always trying to come up with a "rough estimate" of when you might be coming home. It normally goes something like this...
Today is Africa day. We're thinking of our little one and listening to Emmanuel Jal. We're excited to teach little Art about his beautiful country and celebrate his culture. 
Here she is in her newly renovated Silver Streak trailer. You can find her selling gourmet popsicles at parties and other happenings across the beautiful Texas Hillcountry.
It's probably a little soon for this, but we can't wait to put Arthur's room together! Currently his room is still very much the guest room, but we've been picking up things here and there to make it more kid friendly. Aaron and I actually have pretty similar taste which is nice, because we both want to have some say in what his room looks like. Aaron found some great art prints last night, and this train track illustration by Toru Fukuda was my favorite!
