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 

Dif/ser

Well a quick update as a little but a lot has happened. We got all our paperwork in, translated, and sent off to dif/sre. Dif/sre are the agencies here in mexico thy will review our papers to make sure all is in order and approve us.  This is a long drawn our process because if they don't like the way something is worded they will ask for it to be redone or if your blood test fist have one they wanted they will ask for more bloodwork. Our prayer is all is done to their satisfactory and in a timely manner we will receive our match so we can get to the next step which is approving the kid for USA adoption. Basically turn in paperwork, and wait a couple weeks. We do have a grant for the last of our fees however we are hoping to get more grants and fundraising to help with the next payment. Please pray for us as God has been moving that he will continue to bring our angel home. 

I800a

I800a adoption papers were sent out today. Now we wait for our golden ticket (approval letter ) pray we get this fast and move to next step of adoption

I800a

Tomorrow we will be turning in our I800a. We will send this in and wait for our "Golden Ticket" (term used for l800a approval letter) pray for us as we will need to raise our next fees soon. God is moving in this adoption to teach us things and know that our boy is waiting for us as we wait on him.

Updating

We are still waiting for the reapplication letter from the agency but all is going good. Please pray as the fees are coming soon again that The Lord will continue to provide for the adoption. We are still have fundraisers going so please if interested ask us about them to help us bring our little one home. 

Updates

Trying to update homestudy and trying to get our psy evaluation papers after a month. Please pray we can get these done fast and all turn out for the best.....   The little boy we have been praying about has an attempt to adopt by another family. This is hard for us but know God is in control. Either one of two things will happen  either this boy will go to the other family which is sad but  God is in control or their adoption will not go through with him and then we can try and put our request in... Please pray  for these request.   Even if it is not God will for us to adopt him we are praying he will be adopted in a Christian home. 

Grant update.....

We received a grant. It is a blessing to receive this grant. We still have a ways to go and payments to make. Thank you for praying for this grant and continue to pray for the rest of the funds to come in.

Grant paper work in

We got a letter today sayingall grant   paperwork was in... Yeah.  Now comes the hard part waiting and praying. Please pray with us as they seek Gods will on who to give grant money to. Also that we can receive enough for the adoption so we can bring our boy home. 

Psy evaluation

Have our psy. evaluation scheduled in 3 weeks. Pray for us as we do this and the i800a. We need prayers for the adoption process and for the money as we continue. We are still working and praying for the grant next month. 

Update and Colombia

Update waiting on the reference letters to be sent and turned in...  October we will be doing i800a and the psy. Evaluation, also all other non dated paperwork.  Please pray for the money to complete these two steps.   

Also we got word that the agency due to colombia not sending files like promised has decided to not persue colombia but has open mexico as a pilot program.  If you have kept us with us ww always wanted to adopt from mexico but the door was closed after persueing peru and starting to go for colombia the Lord has open the door for us to adopt in Mexico ( the desire of our heart) 

Updates....

We are waiting to receive page 9 of the home study with a correction, so we can send in our I-800a application which is for USA immigration and approval. We have started doing grant applications. Please pray as we need these grants to help pay for our adoption process. We just finished our first application but have looked into a few others. Pray for us to receive this grants as it can pay a large sum of what we owe if not close to all none travel fees.... We may not receive all of it or may not receive any but are praying Gods will be done in this as we know he will provide in his way. Our little boy is waiting for us to bring him home and time is flying by fast. One of the boys we have been praying about just had his 5th birthday. Which makes us sad because we don't want another birthday to pass without the child that God has for us even if it is not this one. Pray for things to move fast, and money to pay the fees.

An email

Never new we would get excited over an email. However we did. Our homestudy has been approved and accepted by our agency. Now we can apply for grants (pray for this) and start our dossier part. Which we haven been gathering alot of it now we can finish and apply for our i800a. 

Take a quick look. April 6 is the day.

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Tis is a fundraiser to help us raise money for the adoption please take a look and buy they have wonderful products and a friends of our is helping us with this to help raise the money.... Please look. All proceeds will go to the second phase of the adoption....