Homestudy visits completed and the plan

The social worker came to the house yesterday to do our last homestudy visit. Now she has to write an 8-10 page paper on our family and why we will be good adoptive parents.
After that is completed we can hopefully send out all our notarized documents we have been collecting to the state to be certified as Wisconsin has to put their seal of approval that all the notaries are legal and up to date. Then all those documents have to be sent to the Guatemalan Consulate office in Chicago for further authentication which can take up to 4 weeks. So as you can tell, its a long drawn out paperwork process still at this point.
When all papers are "official" we can then send that pack of papers which is called a dossier (doss-see-A) to our agency to send off to Guatemala.
In the meantime we will be awaiting our I171H from the Department of Homeland Security which gives us ultimate permission to adopt a child internationally. That can take up to 90 days to receive. Finally we wait for a referral of a child born in Guatemala and hopefully all goes well and we can bring her home when shes around 6-9 months old.

On another note, both boys are sick. Ryan is on antibiotics for an ear infection and bronchitis. Evan has a really bad GI bug and isnt able to keep down any food or fluids even. Hopefully they are both well soon!