Court Date!

We found out today that we have a court date of April 24th!!!!!! This means that the Ethiopian court will review all our information and either decide they need more info or approve us as parents of Baby Z! Of course, we're desperately hoping for the second option but we're trying to be realistic. About half of adoptive families have multiple court dates. This has really nothing to do with the child or the family or even the agency, it has to do with the government and whether they lost paperwork or didn't present it to the judge in exactly the right way or something. If we do pass the first time, we would probably travel sometime in May. We're getting really excited now that we have a date - it feels like this is actually going to happen soon!

Update!

We received our first update on Baby Z today! We were so ready for more pictures and information! I wish, wish, wish I could share the pictures with you but just believe me when I say that he is absolutely darling, getting cuter by the minute it seems, and very healthy! At four months old he is 13 pounds and 24 inches long which is about the 20th percentile on US growth charts and pretty darn big on an Ethiopian growth chart! He should probably enjoy having his cheeks to himself right now because the best word to describe them is KISSABLE!!!!

We are still waiting for a court date but we're hoping to hear about that soon! We would love prayers for us to get a court date soon, and for us to pass the first time so we can bring him home to his family! Aidan already talks about how much he misses him, and wonders whether he's lonely without us . . . talk about breaking a mother's heart!