The dossier arrived in Addis Ababa yesterday!!! Yay!!!! Keep in mind our DTE is 8/20/09, not yesterday. Your DTE is the date your agency sends the dossier, not the date it arrives in Ethiopia. Just to review what the DTE means...It stands for Dossier To Ethiopia and it's from that date that you count down to your referral. The current wait time for a referral of a baby girl is 10-11 months. So, it looks like we could get matched to a baby girl next June or July!! What a wonderful thing to look forward to through the winter and spring. After we get matched to a baby, we wait to get a court date...seems like that's usually a month or two after your referral. We do not actually go to Ethiopia to appear in court. Our agency has a representative who will do that for us. Most families pass court the first time but many do not. So, we pray even now that God would clear the way for us to pass court the first time. Once we pass court, we travel a couple of weeks later to bring Quilla home!!! Now, you should realize that the courts in Ethiopia close every year in August and September. It's entirely possible we could get "caught in the court closure," meaning we would have to wait longer than normal for our court date. We hope this doesn't happen but are aware it's a possibility given the expected timing of our referral. We trust God to work out the timing but it's our constant prayer that we can bring our baby home sooner rather than later. The good news is, it's very unlikely that the process would drag on like the process in Vietnam (we were matched with Zeke Jan 31st and didn't get him until mid September).
In other news...Brad got home yesterday. We were so happy that he got on an earlier flight and arrived at 5PM! Zeke was so happy to see daddy!
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