We took 40+ pages to our bank today to get notarized after Dan got off of work. It felt great to get that chunk of papers taken care of, let me tell you! We have some documents to get apostilled and sent overseas ASAP (our coordinator approved them tonight, so those go out to Indianapolis for apostille the morning), the rest are regular old dossier/home study documents that we're compiling. The notary we had this evening was very understanding about the big stack of papers I dragged out of our 3" binder and flopped on her desk. While they didn't randomly provide cookies for Wylie to gnaw on like the last time we took a trip to the bank to get stuff notarized, he was largely well-behaved and cheerful while Dan and I scrawled our names... a few dozen times. ;) Now we just have our medical docs, home study/social worker docs, immigration approval form, state police background check forms, and Dan's employer letter left to work on for the dossier portion. And we can only get a couple of those things notarized ourselves - the rest have to be sent to us with the notarization/certification on them. Yay for progress! The "paper baby" is growing fast.
Actually, Wylie was a happy camper for somebody who went back to the audiologist and got things poked in his ears again (boy, was that ever fun for mama too :P). He got to go to the park TWICE today in return for being such an awesome Boo Bear. Once in the morning with my friend and her daughter while we all walked (we got sunburned!!!! OUCH.), then he got to go again in the evening with the new playgroup. Hopefully by the time Eileen gets here we'll have exposed him to enough other kids that he's cool with having somebody else his age in the house. Crazy talk? Maybe so. It's worth a shot though.
one step closer
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