PAIR letter

We got what I have come to realize is one of the most coveted adoption papers  in the world of Ethiopian Adoptions. Our PAIR letter. This little letter, which I just learned stands for "Pre adoption immigration review", essentially states that we are done with the investigation portion of things on the U.S. side of the process. Y'all, it's all so convoluted and really just a tad much! Anyway, we got the letter this weekend and sent it off to be authenticated today. Again, "authenticated" I don't even know. But I do know it's time to start LITERALLY flooding the gates of heaven with prayers that the next several steps that need to happen happen fast! We now need this letter to be quickly shifted over to Ethiopia so a preliminary hearing can be scheduled with our birth mom in the Ethiopian court system. Not to be confused with the embassy interview she just went to at the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia. After that we need the department of women's affair (MOWA) to issue a letter on or behalf and then we will get a court date to go to Ethiopia! At this point we will go to Ethiopia and legally take custody of our daughter. We will then return home (you may hear me kicking and screaming all the way back home) for a short time, waiting on all her legal stuff and I will go back to Ethiopia to get her and finally bring her home! 

So here is the big, giant, whopping prayer that I beg of you! 

The courts close in Ethiopia from about August to October for rainy season. If we don't get in before then our case will literally hit a pause button until sometime in October. To say this causes me a bit of angst would be an understatement! So we beg any and all prayer people to pray that we get in before court closures!! 

Thanks for following us on this crazy journey! 

Kayla :)

Just mailed off the letter! I felt like I needed a chaperone double checking everything I put in the package. I was nervous I was gonna mess it up! 

And on the bright side of things, I'm planning to start working on her nursery this weekend. First stop pink walls. Second stop. Clouds!! ⛅️⛅️

Totally different from Z & N's room. And while we are on that subject. Someone please come force me to start the "Zoe and Nora share a room again" transition. I separated them at about 6 months and cringe at the thought of the sleepless nights we may all have in store if I put them back together. 

And because I can't help it........

Is everything about this picture not the cutest!? The lovie, paci, pig tails, face paint, star on her arm. The dirty car seat however is real bad and I'm just now noticing, ha! But oh how I love this sweet angel! 

This one too, but car sleep isn't her thing!