Backtracking

We are building this blog backwards so we will catch you up briefly here:
After deciding we wanted to add to our family again, we contacted World Partners Adoption, who we used for the adoption of our son Shawn, from Kazakhstan. By the end of January we had signed a contract with WPA and began our paperwork pregnancy. Letters from employers, banks, our mortgage company etc., were being gathered and notarized and apostilled and all in triplicate.
By the end of February we had been fingerprinted and scheduled and completed our home study with our social worker Beverley Lewin who we also used for our first adoption. This month was also spent gathering other paperwork such as marriage license, birth certificates etc. These also must be in triplicate. We are getting to be known at Kinko's/Fed Ex. In March we are scheduled for our immigration appointment, cleared by the FBI after being cleared locally as well and have all of our physicals performed that paperwork mailed off as well. The staff and doctors and Tyler Acute Care are awesome! We also decide it is o.k. to tell family and friends what we are up to.
We spend April gathering a few items for our new son such as a bed, potty, car seat and stroller. All of which we just gave away because we were done adding to our family.......never say never....Gramma Polly makes a beautiful quilt that is covering little mans bed. Shawn helps with all purchases and loves it. He speaks of his brother at least once a day. He has already set aside toys for him and tells us he will teach him all about life here. We also pick a name: Cameron James Collins.
By the end of May we have received the Holy Grail of adoption paperwork, the Favorable Determination of Advance Processing of Orphan Petition. Basically, yes go ahead, all this work has not been in vain. Off that goes to WPA as well as our completed dossier (the previous 5 months of paperwork with 5 copies of the whole dossier) and mailed off to WPA.
And here we are in June! We know that our dossier is out of translation (from Russian and Kazak) and has been sent to the consulate where it must be approved by many hands, each one doing their job very well, and looking for errors, problems, missed signatures etc. So far no problems.
As of today, June 28, no news is good news.
Temple at WPA is our adoption angel this go round for reasons she knows. God bless her.
So here we are, standing by for a possible stand-by. I will add some photos, video and links as we go along and share more about Kazakhstan. A really fascinating. huge country that no one has ever heard of!