Shes awake!

In her September surprise visit pictures. She goes to bed at 8pm and is now eating every 3 hours.

September social visit pics

Every month the agency gets the foster moms and babies together to take photos and just have fun. Heres our sleeping beauty. This is a preemie sweatshirt that Ryan insisted we buy his baby sister. He would not leave the store without it. He will be so happy to see it on her. Shes growing out of those preemie clothes pretty quick. Yeah for growing healthy!

7 week old weight check

Nora saw the doctor on Wednesday. Shes now 7lbs4oz and 19 inches long. Shes gained another pound in the last 2 weeks. No new photos though yet. :(

DNA match

We finally got the official papers, DNA is a match. The lab is 99.96% sure that Nora is the birthmoms baby.

We entered Family Court

We are still awaiting the results from the dna test. We get the results mailed to us directly from the lab here in the US. We are guessing we had at least a 1-3 day delay due to the holiday so we hope to get them this week.
But good news tonite as we found out we entered family court. Theres many steps in this process. Heres a cut and paste from our agency website....
The Guatemala adoption then progresses in the following general order:
DNA (this is in process)
Family Court
PGN
New Birth Certificate and Passport
Translation and submission of documents to U.S. Embassy for pink slip
Medical Exam from U.S. Embassy Doctor
Embassy Interview with Family and Travel Home

And a tidbit on FC (family court) also from the agency website...

Around the same time DNA is happening, your Guatemalan adoption file will be submitted to Family Court in Guatemala City, where it will be assigned to a court social worker.
The social worker will review your home study, the birth mother's documents and the child's documents, and then interview the birth mother and see the child and the child's foster mother.

If everything is in order, the social worker will issue a report and make a recommendation in favor of the Guatemalan adoption and your case will exit Family Court

First day of first grade

Ryan woke up early he was so excited. He practically ran to the bus. I met him at school to show him where to line up and help put supplies away and all I got was "when are you going home mom?" He got off the bus tonite and said "I likeded every thing about it!".