Week 7 of the wait brought with it a conference call with all Ethiopia Gladney families. We love Gladney. I really appreciate their desire to keep us informed about what is going on with the Ethiopia program. The latest news is that the new wait time from waitlist to referral is on average about 6 and a half months. Then it can take anywhere from 3-6 months for a court date to be scheduled. Court dates are scheduled about 8-10 weeks out and then you travel another 3 weeks after that. This was not earth shattering news as far as we were concerned. But I do expect the wait to continue to creep up as the months go on. So we're probably not looking at traveling b/f next Fall or Winter. The good news is that more and more families are interested in adopting orphans from Ethiopia.
We also attended our first Austin Ethiopia Adoption get together. It was so fun to actually see all the Ethiopian cuties in person. It made it much more real to us. Brent and I just kept looking at them and thinking, "Wow, one day this will be us." It's an amazing group and I know they will be so helpful in sharing advice. We already heard a few horror stories about the 18 hour plane ride home.
Finally, the most exciting part of Week 7 was that Miley Ryan turned one year old on Sunday. We are officially celebrating her birthday this weekend, however. It seems like just yesterday that she was our little terrior terror: biting everything in sight, growling while holding onto our pants and chewing our brand new base boards! We don't miss that part but we do miss her little white puppy self running around like a banshee when she had her crazy puppy freak outs after 8pm. She's still a little crazy at times but thanks to Lee Mannix Miley has definitely calmed down. She even graduates from her intro. to agility class on Wednesday. Here are some pics. of the pup over the last year.
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