11 Months Old

Madison turned 11 months old yesterday. Here is her nursery, the finished product!

A Brief Update

Just thought I would post a brief update since we haven't posted in a while. I guess we can safely say (for now) that no news has been good news. The latest news out of Vietnam is, yes the US and Vietnam have agreed to do the investigations on the cases in our province (Phu Tho), but right now it is a matter of “who needs to talk to who” to arrange the time when US can get to the province to complete the investigations. They are telling us to remain positive but it is very difficult to do as time continues to pass by. Madison turned 10 months old on the 29th of May and my (current) wish is to have her home by her first birthday. We do know that things are still very unstable surrounding adoptions between the US and Vietnam and at this point anything can happen. Our agency still tells us that they do have a backup plan for us involving new referrals of new babies if these ones fall through, but as we said in our last post, time is running out and if this backup plan has to happen and we do not have a referral by September 1, we will have to decide on another country.

On a more positive note, Kathleen traveled to Vietnam between May 8-May 24 and she is now home with Maggie. I posted a few pictures below from her trip and I am waiting for her to send me some more so I can post them, but she has been a bit busy lately:) But she says all is well with Maggie. She is very tiny, only 12 lbs for a 10 month old, but she has 9 teeth and eats anything Kathleen feeds her. She is currently working on crawling and is adjusting very well to her new home & her Mommy! I can't wait to see her!