NO DNA or FAMILY COURT

What a nightmare our adoptions are! After spending 130 dollars on a hotel...plus paying a driver to get us there...I have to pay for a taxi to get Auri to her attorney's office. We get there and out he and the foster mom come and tell me court and dna will not take place as the birthmother did not bring her documents. So back to the hotel we go with our foster mom. Of course the ATM's here would not access my second checking that has the money in and my husband is in Grad class and my parents are gambling...so my co worker Mary helped to transfer the funds into my other account!

We have been back at the house for a couple of hours and Auri is a mess! I had to wake her up so early and then after breakfast she went back down for a nap....then we got the call to take her to the attorney where she once again fell asleep...and then after being up again to talk with the attorney and foster mom she fell asleep right before we got to the house. Of course now there is too much going on that she does not want to nap! So the baby whisper Kelsey is now home and hopefully she can get her to sleep!

At the Tikal

We are at the Tikal now. Auri has DNA in the morning. Today she had very very bad gas! And after giving her mylicon she had very very very bad diarrhea! I had my driver stop at a pharmacy on the way out of Antigua to get some pedialite and some better diapers! But they aren't much better! Well her little belly is so big and hard and it sounds like there is so much fluid in there. I can hear it when I carry her. I emailed my agency and will ask our attorney and foster mom to take her to the doctor if it doesn't get any better tomorrow. Please pray.

This is so much harder than I could have ever imagined. It gets better every day but when you have a day like this it doesn't help! Well I need to get her to bed!

Love you all!


On a side note...as I typed this and give Auri her pretend phone and said its papa she takes it and says "hello"! She has also successfully emptied all of the diapers and placed them under the night stand!

More pics

We went to the grocery store today...it was an interesting sight loading in about 1100 Q in grocerys into the strollers with two kids and 3 adults! Of course my child has a gas problem and the diapers here stink...so poor Kelsey our roomie who is the "Child Whisper" got some wet marks on her from little Auri! Well we are about to eat dinner! Catch you all up later!!!

Pics for Daddy

Mug shot???

Sorry I couldn't get any good pics...she is always smiling but by the time the camera takes the pictures...she's not!!! Well I just booked a night at the Tikal for Sunday. Auri has first DNA and Family Court Monday morning and our driver wanted to send someone to pick me up at 5:30 and then I was to find something to do in the city!

Here in Antigua

Just wanted to give you all a few quick pictures! We are here in Antigua...we didn't get to the house yesterday until about 9:30 after we picked up Auri and Melodie's girls Rosa and Fern. We also stopped at Hiper Paiz...of course my credit card did not work! The house is amazing...but this is all about of a shock to me! We got to watch a few fireworks tonight and Auri was a bit scared! Well I need to run.... once we get a router I will be able to catch you up a bit!

Auri talked to her daddy tonight and just smiled away as she listened to his voice!

Spending the night in Florida

Just wanted to let you all know I made it to Florida... I will post more later!

HOUSE....NO HOUSE....VERY NICE HOUSE!!!

Okay it is a very long story but we lost our house in Guatemala. After hours and hours of emails and phone calls we finally found another house in the same subdivision but MUCH nicer! Or at least I hear!!! Well I am off tomorrow..wish me luck. I am stopping off in Florida. If any of you have skype and want to reach me let me know...you can see little Auri in action!!!

Pray for Eliana

Eliana is throwing up again. Chris went home Saturday and Lindsey's mom Kay is now with her in Guatemala City. Please pray for this sweet little girl to get better and SOON! I know Lindsey and her mom are just exhausted so please pray for them too!

Email from our Foster Mom and Many Thanks!

Our Foster Mom emailed us to let us know Elvia/Auri is doing well. She can count and some of her favorite words are Mama, Papa, Marcos and Abner (Marcos and Abner are her Foster Mom's kids). How sweet! She did say she is in 24 months...I hope that is Guate sizes b/c when we were there in March her 18 month pants fell right down! And she said her shoes are too small! Okay she was wearing 3 1/2 and I took 4's but sent 5's in October...so I hope her Crocs fit her!!! Well no pics...guess you all need to hold out until July 3rd!

Also we want to THANK:

Brian Moira and Andrew Baum
Jack and Dee Baum
The Bauer Family
and of course Habe

for the generous gifts to help with our adoptions!!! It means so much to us! And there will be Thanks You's coming but I need someone's help with those and well she's in another country!

HE CRUSHED OUR DREAM...

For those of you that may just be checking out our blog for the first time...we fell victims to AIP and Orson Mozes and will never get to adopt Roma. America's Most Wanted is getting a piece together and many other victims are telling the news their stories. Please pray for NATIONAL attention so they can find Orson. We still dream about having another adopted child but unfortunately that is on hold due to financial reasons with our first failed adoption. But we will not give up hope..if you can DREAM..you can DO IT!

Getting too close....

Okay I am not ready for this. I have so much to do but just can't bring myself to do it. I admit I am freaking out! I think if I could bring Brent I would be okay but I can't. I want to be with Auri (okay notice the name transition from Elvia) so bad but the last time we were with her she screamed every time she saw me! She just wanted her Papa! I am trying to set up Skype so that Brent can see her every night but it keeps crashing my laptop! We still don't have Auri's room complete, no mattress, no car seat...house not childproofed...wow Brent you have a lot to do! Well its late I need sleep - maybe that will help!

JULY 3RD

July 3rd is the day I am flying out to Guatemala City and picking up Elvia...and can you believe she has her Family Court and DNA that same day? Well at least I get a lot of worries out in one day!

Once I get to Antigua we are going to start making the name transition to Auri Elizabeth Elvia Heinrich.....we wanted to wait until after we had DNA results but the day we have it drawn is close enough....right? It's hard because we had a name picked out but she already had a name...its who she is but her new name represents who she will be! Hard very hard! I guess if I had a little more faith in the entire process we would have just made the change from the start but we all know who changed that for us(AIP ORSON MOZES)!

Well pray some more for Eliana, Chris and Lindsey...in a few hours they will be re-united!

URGENT PRAYERS FOR SWEET ELIANA

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and PRAY PRAY PRAY for this sweet little girl Eliana. She is very sick and almost died last night. She is in the hospital and Chris and Lindsey are on their way first thing in the morning. Please tell all your friends to pray as well & please post a note on their blog!

Love you all!

2 Weeks!

2 weeks from today I will be chatting away with my girlfriend Leigh Ann in Florida..then in the morning I will be off to the Airport to greet Lindsey for our flight in to Guatemala...can you believe I am actually doing this??? I CAN'T! I have to admit I sometime wish I never made this decisions, but I am sure 2 weeks and 1 day from now I will not look back!

Today our jogging stroller arrived...Peppy the cat tested it out and it is good to go! Thanks Diane C. for the Toys R US gift card that helped us to purchase this new ride! Brent loves the colors...it's NOT pink!!! I tried and tried to purchase a pink and grey or a pink and brown stroller and he was not having it!

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A few answers to questions...& Happy Father's Day shout out!

As for the I-72, DNA and Family Court can move forward while we wait for the requested midwife documents. Hopefully we will get a court date soon. I keep praying DNA is done before I get there in a few weeks. I can't wait!!!

And in case any of you are local and know of anyone that needs a lawn care guy or some landscaping done for the summer please let me know! Brent just lost a very big client and well...things are going to be very very tight with me moving now. So sad I may have to start selling my Longaberger Baskets to make this all work :-(

Happy Father's Day, Papa!!!

Of course Happy Father's Day to my Dad too!!!

I-72 issued

Just when we thought we had good news...we get issued an I-72 for more midwife documents. No idea if they will get moving with the DNA and FC interview or not. I post when I know more!

DNA AUTH!!!

Can you believe it??? This is FIRST DNA not second!!! (for those of you in process!)

BOOKED!

I booked my flight! I am so proud of myself! I never do anything on my own. I am heading to Florida on July 2nd...stopping in and staying with my high school BFF Leigh Ann and then she is taking me to the airport the next day to meet my sweet roomie Lindsey Wheeler...and off we will go to get our girls!!!

(Well it has been a very busy few days...lets just say teachers love to live it up once school is out and well I have not gotten much sleep...they have no pity for me and my year long job! So I will try and update the blog later this week!)

Eeeek...one suitcase already filled!!!

Not sure how I am going to fit everything. I know I can buy stuff there but not sure how I am going to fit more than 2 outfits for me in the next suitcase! For those of you who fostered or are still what do we absolutely need to bring from home?