We have officially been on the "waiting for a referral" list for four weeks and found out today that we are #5! 

(High fives all around!)

We moved up two places in two weeks, not that this is in any indication of how things will go from here. We're still in the same place as before: "The call could come any day now, or it could be a couple of months from now"....but progress is progress.

We are scheduled for our biometrics (fingerprinting) appointment with USCIS in about two weeks.  This is a big step and involves the immigration paperwork for our little one.

On another happy note, we also received word that our dossier made it to Ethiopia today. We're still pretty sure that we'll have to make the two trips to ET, but this is very good news. The dossier arriving in ET is another big milestone since it has to arrive in ET and be translated before we can even get in line for a court date...but we can't get in line until we have a referral. 

My birthday and Mother's Day is in a couple of weeks. Guess what I would LOVE as a present!?