More Details

I talked to our case manager on Friday, and got more details about our status. We are currently number 15 waiting for a boy, but 6 of those ahead of us are waiting for either gender. She said to anticipate 6 months wait for a referral, but it could be sooner. While we're waiting, our dossier will be authenticated, translated, and reviewed by the Ethiopian government. Once we receive our referral, we will have it reviewed by the International Adoption Center here at Cincinnati Children's to make sure there are no medical red flags that we (with less experience) might miss. Then we decide either to accept our referral or decline and wait for a different child. After accepting our referral, the orphanage director goes to court for us and the adoption in Ethiopia takes place. We will probably travel about 2 months after we accept our referral. The catch for us is that Ethiopian courts are closed the months of August and September (can you imagine if we did that?), so depending on when we get our referral, we may be delayed by that. We're probably looking at either August or October travel, though!!