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Not Good News

We did receive word from our agency today that things are not going to move ahead for quite sometime. We have no idea when our baby will come home so we are totally depressed. This could take months. All we can do is pray that this will come to pass and she can come home. THis is hard on us because we wanted an infant and now we are faced with the possibility that she can be over one when we bring her home. Obviously, we love her but I know how as time goes on the adjustment becomes harder for the child to make so we will have more challenges than we originally planned on. I know God only places what we can handle on our plates but being faced with this is really tearing us up. We are so attached to this baby and it is hard not to get attached and honestly we did talk about asking our agency to find us another placement because we are scared to death of bringing home an older child right now but she is ours and too hard to walk away from. I truly realized this when our friends sent us more photos of Delylah from their trip. In the photos they were showing her the photo album we sent her. How could we ever give her up when even though she may never remember she saw her family and big sister waiting for her. I could not live with myself knowing that someone told her we were coming for her and then take it away because we were being selfish and planned on having an infant. We all wish we could be there from day one but sometimes that is not in God's plans for us so we have to roll with it.
The only positive that may come out of this is because of financial reasons it was looking like only I would travel because obviously airfare is on the rise. Now, we the possibility of more time to save Keith may be able to go after all.
Please pray for us and the other families affected by this situation we are all heartbroken that our babies cannot come home right now.
ALso keep my friend Jamie's little boy in your prayers he too is waiting to come home like Delylah but had a nasty eye infection right now.

A Little Lift

What cute little toes

Well, today we received 15 new photos of Delylah. Our agency sent 5 and our friends Tymm, Laura, and Meron sent us ten photos from their trip to get baby Meron. That was a definate lift in our spirits because we have been so down about not knowing when we will get to bring our little girl home. We also received a little update on her weight and she is a little butterball at 15 and a half pounds. I am now hoping that Lennah's clothes will fit Delylah after all because Lennah was just shy of 15 pounds when we brought her home at almost 8 months and Delylah just turned 5 months on Friday. Hopefully, we will hear something about Delylah's orphanage starting to process cases soon. Keep us in your prayers.

Still NO News

Well, things are getting frustrating. We were out of town last week and were hoping that something positive would come to light and that we might by some miracle beat the court closing after all if cases started being processed again but no such luck. We did have our friends Tymm and Laura go to pick up their little girl Meron last week and visit with Delylah but of course we would rather be holding her ourselves. We also have another fellow Illien adopting family heading there this week to visit their baby and our kiddos and they will be giving Delylah lots of love. I am just praying that something changes soon. I hate the wait. We just want our little girl to come home.

Depressing News

I cannot really get into the details but things are a little shaky where Delylah is at right now. This will now cause a hold up on her adoption and Keith and I are so sad that she will not be home for several more months. It should have been around August when we brought her home but some issues arose in the orphanage she is at and this is causing major paperwork delays. In turn we will not beat the court closing for the rainy season which lasts from August 6th-September 25 this year. Please keep this oprhanage in your prayers, the other families adopting from there right now (who are in the same situation as us), and the children. We hate knowing that our Delylah is growing up right now without her mommy and daddy and it is going to take even longer to bring her home.
Also pray for our friends Tymm and Laura who are leaving Friday to get their baby girl Meron. She is Delylah's crib mate and they were the ones who brought us to our Delylah.

A little lift for spirits

I just received three new photos of Delylah from our agency. Our girl is growing and getting more and more cute every time I see her. She has hit the 12 pound mark. I just hope she doesn't grow too fast and out grow the clothes we have for her. We have a lot of clothes from Lennah that are in great condition and bought Delylah several new outfits because every little girl needs something old and something new. This definately helped me feel better today after not getting the best news yesterday.

Good News Bad News

So it appeared that the agency made a mistake and Delylah's abandonment period was up on Saturday May17th. We were so excited because we would have just had to wait for the Women's ministry to release her paperwork and we could have filed for our court date and brought home our baby soon. Well, this is not happening as we thought we are still waiting on approval from our government which normally takes 90 days and we are only at half that so our agency called the local USCIS office today to try to get this pushed through quicker. Well, that does not appear to be going to happen. The person in charge is out of town for a week and a half and the person currently working the cases can't promise anything. She told our agency to call back around June 10th or so. This news is putting a damper on things because we are concerned that we may not make the court closing. We are just praying that something comes through.