Look who is growing up

David Paul has lost his 3rd tooth the other day which he is so proud of.

Also we have carried him to get his eyes checked out and found out his eyes cross when he looks up and has a slight vision loss in his right eye with a couple other issues to this eye which could have been caused by a couple of things prenatal or an accident that we don't know about. Either way he needed glasses and were able to pick them up for him today.

Does he look so cute in his glasses. Not the ones we were hoping he would have gotten but they were  the ones he wanted and there was no changing his mind of the color orange. We are hoping soon to go and get his hearing tested to see if he needs a hearing aid. We were told he has a small hearing lost in his right ear or possible auditory prosessing disorder. 

Majorly long over due update

We were able to complete our adoption the end of September after many issues that month with the court from lawyer going into labor to needing to redo paperwork. However finally we were able to bring home our little boy. David Paul is 6 years old and is learning English very well.  We had to spend a couple months Texas getting his USA paperwork needed. We have settled back into our home and life as a family of three. 

We have also had to do many dr visits with David Paul as he has a heart condition. We also did a neurologist that was recommended  in his files. We have after a few meetings with the neurologist, the neuropsychologist and all their testing we have found out that David Paul's white brain matter has been effected most likely by a couple of things that were his past. 

We love this little boy and ask for your prayers as we raise him to be the man God wants him to be. 

Waiting

We finally got the visa application and article 17 turned in. Then they wanted copies of passport and visa pictures. Sent visa pictures 2 times now as  they misplaced the first one. So hopefully today as our lawyer turns in our pictures we find out more of when we get the article 5. Our boy is excitedly waiting to come home. Since we came back down for our second visit his confidence has been growing leeps and bounds. Doing things that the orphanage has been working on for years. His english prononciation is better than a lot of his spanish. The other day he repeated a phrase in prefect english all on his own. So proud of these accomplishments he is making. Still have many more to go but the progress is coming.   

Meeting our son

We were able to go for our first visit and bonding with our son it was so wonderful. We got to go to an animal safari with him among many other places in puebla. Also we have received our i800 provisional approval and waiting on the visa application so we can get that filled out so we can get our article 5 and court date set. We went to an estate in puebla for a pic-nic and feed the ducks. We took a picture of our reflection in the water. 

We are making plans for our second bonding trip with him in puebla. God has been so good to us during this long adoption process. We still have our last country payments and are asking for prayers for the $. If you are interested in helping with this please let us know dyc4deafofmex@aol.com.  My ploblano pepper just turned six in may. However he is small for his age but is completely packed full of love and personality. Never knew how much we would already love him. I know he has a lot of adjusting a head as we proceed with the adoption and take him from his "home" and "family"  so we ask for your prayers of wisdom and his adjustment. 

Update

We were able to have the view call with dif in puebla but on the 17.  We had a great meeting with them and they answered all our questions we had about paulino. We were given the wonderful oppertunity to see the child and have a few minutes talking to him and seeing him melted our hearts. Our lawyer has been working hard on our behalf to get our file switched and updated for puebla. We have a list of 12 things to update and most have been done or in the process of getting done. We have 3 we are not sure what they want and 2 in states items that are being taken care of and 2 that we are asking exactly how they want it done to be completed correctly.  We are asking prayer about 1 that we can finally get it after waiting almost 2 months for it. They were suppose to have a meeting last friday to prepapprove us with the match but have not heard anything in regards to this.  Pray we hear something soon from them and the i800a quickly and start the next step to bring our angel home

Dif puebla

They have confirmed the meeting for march 16. Our lawyer was told by dif that they are reviewing our paperwork to see what needs to be updated and if they have any questions for us. They are excited to have the video chat as much as we are. Pray the updates are few and easy to get done. 

Wow

What other word can we say but wow what a week  and God is good.

We have been waiting a long time for yucatan to look at our paperwork and nothing. Came time to renew our paperwork for the i800a and all. We talk to our agency and was told our lawyer has reached out to other states so far none had responded but looks promising. So we continue to renew our paperwork. After talking to our agency again they had a state send info on a little boy but has a heart condition.  We asked if he was deaf and was told no but we said ok send the file we will look. After looking at the file in a quick over view we saw he was unilateral hard of hearing. (Great surprise for us) started looking into his heart it is a syndrome where one side is enlarged but is controlled by meds for now and most likely a surgery when he gets older. Ok. Small delays in development but reaching goals being set for him and has language delays with conflicting reports on speech. Our hearts started connecting to this child. Then we got bad news our i800a was having issues being renewed. Our caseworker went to bat for us and after a few days this has been resolved. We got a email saying a meeting is being scheduled with a group of people to discuss our questions about this boy. We were excited and  confirmed this was great news and looking forward to meeting. After a couple of days they sent an email with time and who all was going to be in the meeting and exactly when. We were happily surprised when we were told it was march16 (crystals birthday) but brought tears to our eyes was the fact that this boy was going to be in the meeting for him to see us and us to observe him.  If you are following still Thats right we may get to see our son on crystals birthday. We are extremely excited