IT'S A BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY, WE CAN SHARE OUR BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are delighted and overjoyed to share that we decided to switch agencies and on February 10 we officially received and accepted the referral of a two year old waiting child with whom we are already head over heels in love.  We first saw his precious face on December 16th and, after much prayer and consideration, we were unofficially matched with him January 6th (we couldn't officially accept his referral until our homestudy was done--and what an ordeal getting our homestudy done was!)

We can't post his picture or Ethiopian name on our blog until we have legally adopted him, and we are still not sure if we will share his first name (American or Ethiopian) online, so here at mamaababandwoosha we will call him B.

B for:

Sweet Baby Boy
Bereket (an Ethiopian name meaning "blessing")
Brown Sugar (the color of his adorable face)
Lil'Bit (he's tiny--but growing quickly!)
Beloved (which he is already more than we can express!!!!!)

So, take your pick as to what wonderful word or phrase you think B represents...we think they are all great, just like him:-)

We were hoping that it might work out through some unusual but potentially feasible circumstances to adopt Aang at the same as B, but we learned today that is not to be, so we decided to share our wonderful news with you.  We'll finish the story of Aang and why we switched agencies (as they are closely related) another day, but that is not the story for today.

Today is a joyous happy day and it is B's day!!!!

We'll go back and fill-in the blanks of our path to accepting B's referral in the next few days.  Right now, the biggest wait is that we filed our I-600A on Valentine's Day, got confirmation of USCIS's receipt, and are just waiting for our fingerprinting appointment so that we can get fingerprinted and have our I-171H issued.  The rest of our dossier is ready to go the second that I-171H shows up in our mailbox!

There have been some changes in the Ethiopian court process this week that could really slow things down, so we are praying fervently that we can pass court before the closure this summer!

Sweet baby B, we are coming to you as fast as we can!!!! We love you so much already and can't wait to meet you! Love, Mama and Ababa (and Woosha)

(The picture is the quilt we had made for B.  We'll do a whole post on it later as we think it is awesome.  We had it custom made by an incredible vendor on Etsy.com and we are using some of the prints to make accents for his room too.)