Annette and Mike's Adoption Journey: Final Days of Summer

Wow where did the weekend go?

I got to spend 4 days straight days with Garrett. We had so much fun. I'm going to go through withdrawal on Monday. :-(

Friday daycare was closed so I took the day off and we went shopping. I love the Carter's store in albertville. We go lots of good fall stuff. The hard part tho is Garrett is right smack in the middle of 12 months and 18 months. Tops he can wear 18 months. He needs to wear 12 month pants for a little longer now that he is walking. We stocked up on a little of both sizes. We did get lucky and the pants I bought for him last winter/spring fit perfectly now. Yay! It is soooo cute watching him toddle around in jeans. There is just more fabric he has to carry around.

Last week we tuned in our 5 month final post placement report to our agency and our adoption decree. It was so neat to write about all the new things Garrett has started to do since our 3 month post placement report. He has changed so much in just 2 months. We are now done with all the agency paperwork for Garrett. Now we need to work on getting him a passport, social security number and his Certificate of Citizenship.

Now the fun beings all over again. I'm going to call one of the Korea team member this week to find out what wait times are looking like. If it's a longer wait we are going to get our reapplication this week. We can't have another placement until march of next year. In reality that will never happen. We would be lucky to be on the waiting list in the beginning of the year. We then would expect 9-12 month wait for a referral. That would work out perfect for us. But who know maybe God has other plans again.:-)

Here are some photos from the weekend.

Garrett had lots of fun playing at the park and going to the state fair. He also got his third hair cut.