CLEARED

Guess What??  Guess WHO is cleared by the embassy??

 

This GIRL!!! 

We found out today our beautiful girl, GRACE YEABSIRA BOWEN is coming home!!

Six months old today!

Happy Six Month Birthday Baby Girl! 

You are half a year old!!  

You are so cute and up to 14 lbs!!

No news from the embassy yet but I have a good feeling we are going to see you very soon!  I find myself randomly smiling knowing it is becoming real.  You will be home soon!!!

Love you baby girl 

Hope we are spending seven months with you!!

Love Mommy and Daddy

One month since court

Hello Miss Grace Yeabsira

Today marks one month since we passed court and you became a Bowen forever.

Tomorrow will be ten business days since our case was opened at the Embassy.  We are hoping it is really good news.  We are coming as soon as we can!

Love you 

Mommy and Daddy

Submitted

May 21st is a great day Miss Grace Yeabsira!!

Our case was submitted to the US Embassy!

This was in our email this morning!

Dear Bowen  family :

Congratulations!  Your adoption case has been submitted to the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  Your authorized agent, Adoption Avenues  , submitted the case to us on May 21,2012. 

It has only been 2 weeks and 4 days since we passed court and you became a Bowen!  

It is normal for it to take 3 to 6 weeks after you pass court to submit to Embassy.

We still do not know when we are coming to get you but it is getting close.  

So what does this mean? and why are we so excited? 

First the Embassy will look at our case in the next ten business days.  At this point they will let us know if our case is clearly approvable.  If it is "not clearly approvable"  our paperwork will be forwarded to the USCIS Field Office in Nairobi, Kenya. This higher level will be able to clear Grace Yeabsira.   Since the sweet little Bowen was abandoned we are expecting this step.

Once we are clearly approvable we will schedule our interview at the embassy and we will hop on a plane and come get you!

  

There is no way to know how long this will take.  It could be a couple weeks or a couple months.  We of course are praying for the shortest but preparing for the longest!

Either way this is the last step and soon Baby girl will be home with us!!

Pink Elephant Baby Shower

Dear Grace Yeabsira

Today was your first shower!!  It was beautiful!

Your Mimzy and Aunts made it such a special day for me and for you!  

Everyone loved the pictures and videos of you!!

We are very blessed and lucky to have such wonderful family and friends to shower us with wonderful gifts!!

Love you 

Mommy and Daddy

and your Mimzy and Grandpa A and Grandma B and Grandpa B, and your many Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and Fairy Godmothers