Mom made the comforter out of the curtains that I picked out. And she also made the ruffle. It is soooo cute.

Some Quick shots of the Room

WAHOOOOOO!!!!

Just found out through email that we have our Birth Certificate ALREADY!!! The email said "Hi Denise , we have received BC!!!!! I seen it with my own eyes!!!" and that was it. I am so excited it is almost as good as getting out of PGN. There are a lot of people on my forum who have been waiting 4-8 weeks for their BC. Ours was two business days. I CAN'T BELEIVE IT!!! I am giggling right now, thinking God must have gotten sick of me praying, give her what she wants so she'll leave me alone (JUST KIDDIN) But I have been praying non-stop WAHOOOO! !!!GOD IS GOOD!! I have learned this from my forum people that it is usually 20-25 days after BC to embassy appointment. Now, I am not sure if that is business days, or all days. So I will have to wait and see what the agency has to say about it. Looks like I will be out of work sooner than I thought WAHOOO!!!! I am ready for my girl!!

NO UPDATE FRIDAY

No update Friday. It was a bummer, until they said NEW PICTURES ARE COMING!! WAAAHOOOOO I love new pictures. It's funny that pictures are so exciting, but thats all I havc FOR NOW!! So keep your eyes open for some more pictures. They said that their taking them Monday so probably Monday night or Tuesday.

Also I actually talked to my agency. They said, that they have a family picking up now and one picking up next week. Both were 6 week pick ups. But we will see. I hate being so negative about it, but you hate to get your hopes up. Well I am going to keep praying to get her home asap. Thats all for now.

NO UPDATE FRIDAY

Nine Months

Today my daughter (I like the sound of that) turns nine months old. I never really thought that she wouldn't be here with me right now. I am sitting here wondering how many teeth she has (two confirmed by the last pictures), is she crawling, is she saying mama, is she pulling herself up and getting into everything, does she have that deep down belly laugh that I love to hear. It is sad to be missing all of that, but at least I know that she is ours, and she will be here soon.

Our attorney is finally submitting for the Birth Certificate 8/8. I am thinking that the last birthmother signature had to happen before that. I have a email in to the agency asking them that.

I have decided as of now that the last week that I am booking appointments for is the 19th of September. That could change at any time depending on what I hear, so if you want your hair done before I am off for two months call soon.

I am going to be putting pictures of the FINISHED room on this soon. As soon as I can find the cord to my camera. ( I looked for one hour last night). Also there will be more pictures of Avea coming mid August I hear. CAN"T WAIT!!! Thats all for now.

We're OUT of PGN

Got the call today. We are officially a MOMMY AND A DADDY!!!!! At least on the Guatemalan side. Half of you don't understand, this PGN thing, now that we blew two months waiting for the Birthmother interview we are just up and moving again, this could have gone on forever. Some people get kicked out 4 times, so I consider myself lucky with only one KO. Now we move into waiting some more. They are saying 4-8weeks. But you never know how long for sure we have to deal with RENAP now, and that is a new process. So I guess we have to sit back and wait again. But anyways We are definately doing the HAPPY DANCE!!!!! YEEEEHHHAAAAWWWW

PGN and Babbling about the Name

I don't have any new, news. Except that there was someone on the forum that was a resubmit, on 7/8. They were just let out of PGN today. THat brings me some hope, that was 22 days. So I will be watching like mad in about 9 more days.

I have just started inviting a few people onto this blog from my forum. Welcome!!

The reason I do not have it open is because my agency said that she is not legally my daughter yet. So I had to change it over to private.

About her name: My Grandma , who was the sweetest thing made, always told me that she loved names that were in songs. So I had to come up with one that nobody had. I loved the song " Ave Maria ", it almost always brings tears to my eyes whenever I hear it. So I decided to name my little peanut "Avea Maria" The last time I heard it, we were in Guatemala, there was a girl singing it to the POPE on the T.V., that was the last time I have heard it. It'll definately turn me into a mess now if I hear it.

I let my mom and Mikes mom decide how to spell it, either Aveya or Avea, they decided on Avea. This led me to a problem, I want an accent over the " e ". I can do it in the subject line of a email, I can do it all over on other peoples PC's. But I can't do it down in the posting areas. You have to hit the " ctrl " then the apostrophe or the accent next to the "1" key, THen hit the vowel. It works, but not on my PC. Does anyone have any ideas how to do this or if I have to change a setting on my PC. Without the accent, it looks like a different spelling of AVA. And I can't have that.

Her given name is Virginia De Los Angeles, this means Virgin of the Angels, I named her Avea Maria after the Virgin Mary. I thought that was kind of cool, being I had her name before we knew anything. Anyway, this is how we came up with her name.

RESUBMITTED!!

Found out yesterday that we were resubmitted on 7/17/08 back into PGN. What happened to you got KO today your attorney will resubmit you tomorrow??? That would have been 7/07/08. That's a bunch of wasted days, just to resubmit something that never needed to be fixed. Just to let you all know, once our file gets out of PGN it is probably a 6-8 week wait before going to pick her up. That definately puts her at about a year old. SAD SAD SAD! We haven't decided if we will be able to go to see her. It changes from day to day. I will let you all know if we decide.

I look at your picture,
time after time,
looking, knowing
You will be mine.

I fall deeper in love,
Every time that I look,
You are already in my heart,
the few minutes it took.

I look and ponder
Who you will be,
Will you dance like you daddy,
Or will you laugh like me.

I can't wait to hold you,
To kiss your sweet face,
To bring you home,
To our own little place.

Every single day,
I look to the sky and pray,
That God will say,
It is time for you to come home,
To me today.

14 lbs 5 oz 65 cm tall Head Circ. 40.5 cms

OH MY GOSH!!!! She is so gosh darn cute!!! I can't stand it. I am so in LOVE!!

Check out that BEAUTIFUL SMILE

As you lay sleeping far away,

As still as you could be...

How could you know the joy today

this photo brings to me?

A few more weeks and you'll be mine,

and "I" will soon be "We".

How could you know the love I feel?

It's something you can't see.

So have sweet dreams, my precious baby.

Sleep well and tenderly.

Some say that you are the lucky one.

How could you know it's ME?

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