We were just notified that Peeper’s case has been submitted to court as part of group F.  For those of you who didn’t use my agency or for those of you who aren’t familiar with Ethiopian adoptions–cases (at least in our agency) are submitted to the Ethiopian Courts in groups.  The actual court date is usally about 4-6 weeks after the cases have been submitted.  Once your court date comes your adoption gets approved (sometimes the cases don’t pass on the first time–could be paperwork issue–our first adoption our case failed the first time) and Peepers is legally ours.  We were also asked this time if there was a specific birth date we wanted given to Peepers.  This was new to me–as with Minnow his birth date was known–this isn’t common with babies.  We know that she was about 3 1/2 months old when we received her referral–I was tempted to make her younger because she is so small–but Minnow was small too and he is doing just fine now.  We wanted to pick a date that would be in line with what the agencies guesstimate was.  We’ll see if they can get the date we choose on her birth certificate and passport.  Oh–we choose 11/11/07.  The date doesn’t have any significance–I wish there was an important date in our lives in November, so we went with a date we thought was nice. 

Well, it shouldn’t be long now.  I am guessing (as all of us adopting parents do–obsessively I must add) that our court date will be early to mid-may and that we will travel in early June.  I am hoping to have her home in time for father’s day. 

In honor of her case being filed in court.  Here is a picture of the mural in her room.  In the three center ballons–her name is spelled out.  For those of you who know it–you can then visualize how cute it is…The letters are done in patterns that match her crib bedding…it’s cute and girlie–but not too girlie as I am not a girlie girl.