I emailed our agency to see what the hold up on the DNA was. I was advised our attorney is waiting on one last certification from the municipality in Huehuetenango which has been closed on vacations. As soon as they reopen and reissue it they are ready to ask for authorization.
They are confident they will have her DNA completed prior to our visit.
I just got an email from our agency with updated medicals! I can officially say we have a little peanut! She is almost 16 months and she weighs 18.4lbs and is 69cms. I found an age and weight chart on the internet and well according to this one she is not even in the 5th percentile! But her doctor's note said she was developing appropriately for her age...guess maybe I need to find a chart for Mayan children.
Now maybe I can get them to give me her shoe size on the next visit!!! haha
So Brent and I just got back from Walmart and I came to realize I have a hair bow addiction! Is there any help? I have quite a few from ebay, Gymboree, H&M and now Walmart! I hope our precious baby girl loves her hair bows!!!
Our I171 H finally arrived and as I am trying to scan it (but was unable to as my printer refuses to work when one of the cartridges is out of ink) I notice they forgot the New in front of Kensington on our address!!!
So I still ran it over to Staples and faxed it...hopefully tomorrow I will have a corrected copy faxed to me!
Many people have asked me where we are in this process. While our agency informed us our dossier is registered with Foreign Affairs, our POA is registered and our dossier has been translated.
Once they receive the hard copy of the I-171H our attorney can renew all the paperwork and get it ready to submit to the Embassy. It could take a couple of weeks depending on all the municipalities.
After spending the evening doing a little Christmas shopping and trip shopping for little swimmies, more hair bows, gerber graduates, etc. etc. we came home and saw 2 large boxes and two smaller boxes! Our red crib, dresser, toddler bed railing and bumble bee and lady bug pics have arrived! Time to convert the nursery..of course I already have the big girl room stuff that she will likely be sleeping in and using 6 mos after she is home!
From: Warner, Susann [mailto:susann.warner@dhs.gov]
On Behalf Of Orphan, PitSent:
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:23 AM
To: Deanna HeinrichSubject:
RE: Heinrich - PIT0020080000
Hi, the new application has been approved and approval notice will be sent out this week. If you wish to do a one time free change of country just send in a request for the change of country and with it a copy of I-171H and state the new country you wish to adopt from. Thanks.
Okay the Pittsburgh immigration office has to be sooo annoyed with me! I just emailed them again to see if we can just change countries on our original I171-H in hopes to get it back faster. She emailed me back stating we can do that but did not say if it would be quicker or not. However she did ask how our Kaz dossier was lost...so I explained...maybe she will feel bad for us and just change our prev approval...doubt it though!!!
I am so excited and so scared!!! I just booked our first visit trip over the holidays December 21st- 24th! I can't wait to meet our precious baby girl and spend Christmas, well Christmas Eve and then bring all the pics and hours of video's to share with the rest of the family on Christmas Day!!!
Come on I171H and DNA!!!
