We passed!

Score. We are one step closer to Little Miss Eileen! Our social worker came this morning and talked to us, gave us some more paperwork to fill out and then checked out the house. She also talked to us a little bit more about the international side of the process and the classes we'll take with the home study agency later on this summer. We're really glad to be working with somebody who is understanding and helpful because (as we told her) we'd heard a lot of home study agency horror stories lately. It was also nice to hear some encouragement about adopting from the country Eileen's in... it's notoriously tumultuous and often frustrating because of all the changes they make to the process. But we'll get through it and we'll have support through the agency afterward if we need it.

Ok, I don't know about you all, but I'm ready for a list of what's left to do paperwork-wise. Here goes:

-State police clearance (going Monday for fingerprints)

-FBI child abuse clearance (going Monday for fingerprints)

-Send application to USCIS for fingerprint date and orphan immigration approval (cannot do until home study is complete/printed/in-hand)

-Get cats updated on shots and send those records to the social worker

-Fill out financial background and send to the social worker

-Write individual autobiographies and send to the social worker

-Get a letter/statement of Wylie's general health and his immunization record print out (will call Monday to add to our other medical stuff we're picking up)

-Pick up medical forms from Dr's office (hopefully this week)

And last, but not least:

-Get ALL finished paperwork sent to Indianapolis for apostille.

Once that's all done, we can mail our dossier off! Well, once we do some fundraising too. More on that this coming week. Tomorrow's my 29th birthday and I'll be taking the day off from adoption paperwork and enjoying my two favorite boys, Dan and Wylie. We're due for some stress-free family time!