Okay, I am a bad blogger! Let's catch up!

Sorry!!! Life has been so busy lately and I haven't made it a priority to blog. Let me catch you up on where we are.

We received Zoe's official referral and acceptance papers on July 14th and received her legals on July 16th.

We got a huge boatload of new pictures of our cutie on July 23rd. We got 18 new pics and 2 video clips. A sweet family had gone to Korea to bring home their baby and stopped by the Reception Center with some donations and went to visit the babies. Here are a few cute pics that they captured of Miss Zoe.

Here's a sweet video of our baby girl in action. (Push pause on the playlist on the right to turn the blog music off so you can hear the video.)

Now we are waiting on our I-600 and I-600A approval. This is for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The I-600A approves us as her parents to bring a foreign child here for the purposes of adoption and the I-600 approves her specifically as the immigrant for the purposes of adoption. So now we wait. Please pray for this approval to come quickly. Many adoptive parents file the I-600A before the I-600, but since we already had her referral, our agency asked us to file them together. With many changes being recently made to the USCIS system, we are praying for a speedy approval with no hold-ups. Unfortunately, many adoptive families have been stuck in this process recently. We are hoping that they've worked those kinks out and it'll be smooth sailing for us and other adoptive parents at this step!

While we wait on this approval, our acceptance papers in Korea began the ball rolling on the Korean side. We hope to hear that she has been submitted for her EP (Emigration Permit) soon and I can't wait to hear that it has been approved. Korea has begun to limit the number of EPs they approve each year, so when they run out: they're out and anyone stuck in the middle has to wait for the following calendar year. We are praying for an EP approval by the middle to end of September!

Keep praying for her as she remains in Korea and continue to pray for our process to move quickly so that she can come home to her forever family! We are ready for her!!!

~paula

P.S. I'm already working on next week's Teach Me Something Tuesday, so stay tuned!