Still Waiting...

No word yet from US Immigration in Vietnam regarding our I-600. Today marks the 26th business day since our application was filed. We are also still waiting for our local US Immigration office to send us our updated I-171H (a document that expired on May 3). We submitted our request for I-171H renewal back in March 2008. The I-171H is a document issued by the US that approves us as adoptive parents and provides permission to bring a foreign orphan into the US to be classified as an immediate relative. So, between those two things, I find myself at the computer as soon as I get up to check my email for I-600 approval from Vietnam...and then at the mailbox in the afternoon looking for the I-171H. Just another one of those obsessions we acquire as a waiting adoptive parent!

We did receive a new photo of Dylan last week. Another couple from our agency recently traveled to Vietnam (the end of April) to receive their daughter from the same ophanage, and quickly snapped a few photos of some of the other waiting babies. They also took a photo of a board listing all the babies' weights. On April 1st (at approximately 4 months old), Dylan weighed in at 10 pounds, 12 ounces. It appears that he has gained about 1 pound every month, and according to a Vietnamese growth chart, is at or just below average for his age.

(5 months old)

I've also done some more work in Dylan's room as the weeks have passed. I was able to find a mirror, a fun rug, and a bookshelf...I'm still looking for window treatments and haven't yet hung the frames on his wall. Slowly, but surely, it's all coming together.