It's interesting doing things in reverse order with this adoption. Usually, you do your homestudy, then you wait for your child. Our child is waiting for us to do our homestudy!
Our homestudy agency (Summit, in MN) and our placement agency (An Open Door, in GA) have been working hard to push things through since we came to our decision on Friday. Some friends took our kids off our hands for a few hours on Saturday so we could fill out all our paperwork. It was a lot easier this time because we basically just copied our answers from our first homestudy. We needed new letters of reference and our friends were so kind and generous to get them to us the same day we asked. We all needed physicals. Bryan got his yesterday, and Brett, Lydia and I did ours all at once today (that was not a fun appointment). Our social worker came to interview us yesterday afternoon. Our background checks were submitted yesterday, and that is what we will probably end up waiting on. We have also been working on grant applications in the midst of all this! With Brett's adoption, our homestudy took about 2 months. It looks like with Reggie, our homestudy will take about 8 days!
The price of airline tickets go up so drastically if you book just a day or two out, so we decided to take an educated guess and book our flight to Georgia for a week from today (August 26th). Bryan is planning to come home to be with Brett and Lydia Friday the 28th, and I will stay in Georgia until all the paperwork clears (which will hopefully not take more than a week, since we booked my flight back for Wednesday, Sept. 2).
We have talked with Reggie's foster mom a couple times over the last few days. It sounds like Reggie is a content baby. Ms. Donna says she keeps trying to get pictures of him with his eyes open. What a nice problem to have. It was hard for me to get pictures of Lydia not screaming when she was that age! Reggie's one week check-up went well; he has another check-up on Friday.
Reggie, we are so excited about meeting you and bringing you home!
SO exciting! I bet it is strange doing things in reverse. More of a sense of urgency so you can be with your baby!
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