Much has happen since December! God blessed us with a beautiful little girl, Chandler Grace Williams. She was born on March 16th and was 6 pounds 15 ounces, and 191/2 inches long. She had phenomena and stayed in the NICU for seven days but now she doing great. We absolutely love being parents.
Starting in April began our frustrating long journey to collect our dossier (paperwork). Our dossier can only be six months old so we had to update everything. In the middle of all the excitement of having Chandler home, we were back and forth to various offices getting our blood work done, tax assessor letter, employee letters, petition to adopt, obligation to adopt, power of attorney, criminal background checks, well you get the point a lot of documents.
After collecting all these documents we turned them in to be reviewed. I can’t tell you how many times we heard “everything’s perfect but…”. It was a mad rush, which lasted well over a month with many trips down to Baton Rouge and to Jackson. We finally sent our dossier off May 20th to our Ukrainian translator/facilitator.
On June 24th our facilitator will present our dossier to the Ukrainian Courts. If all goes well we should receive a date to fly to Ukraine within 20 days. If any of our dossier has any errors then we will be rejected and could have to wait up to a year to reapply. We are praying that God will be over this whole process.
Two or Three more months and we should be in Ukraine to meet our second child. Going from diapers to T-Ball in six months. Very Exciting.
