Since many of you have asked if we were going to blog about our journey to meet and bring Kai home, here it is! This will be a place where we will be writing about our travels and any news regarding this adoption. For those of you who don't know, an Ethiopian adoption now requires two trips to complete the process. The first trip to Ethiopia is to meet our new child and to attend a court hearing that will relinquish custody from Ethiopia and gives custody to us. However, even though we will have legal custody of Kai, the US embassy will not have his visa, passport, birth certificate, and other documents that he needs ready to enter the United States. So, we are told that it will be between 5-8 weeks before all the paperwork is settled and we fly back for our second trip to bring him home. We leave for our first trip on December 16th and we will have our court date on December 23rd. We will fly out of Addis at 12:02 a.m. on the 24th and hopeful be home late that night on the 24th (if there are no delays). There are many more details to write about, but I'll save them for later :). Thanks for following the blog. We look forward to hearing from you all while we are away!
Christy
Woo Hoo! The day after your birthday you get to go start the process of bringing home your little boy. What a cool birthday gift!
ReplyDeleteKeiki (child) are regarded as a treasure in Hawaii and Kai in Hawaiian means "sea" so I am sure he will be a sea of love in your amazing lives that you will treasure always. Enjoy the journey.
ReplyDeleteMele Kalikimaka