1st Trimester is now complete!

Signing the home study report with Diane. 15th August 2012. On our 10th wedding Anniversary!

A Milestone! Yesterday was a BIG day for us. Our 10th Anniversary. AND we signed our home study report! Yippee!!! Diane has been wonderful with us and working with our timeline. Usually she likes to work with PAPs (Prospective Adoptive Parents) for at least a full season, and we know from our PRIDE sessions that there are practitioners who take 6 months and more as well, so when Diane worked with us to complete it within 2.5 months (and told us to mention to any other PAPs that its the first and last time she will probably work this fast) :) In her own words, "The stars seem to be so well aligned for both of you, there was no way I was going to be the one falling out of alignment!" Thank you Thank you Diane!

In other news, we recieved our very first present! Ranjeet, a friend of mine from IIHM days, sent a funny book for daddy-to-be Deepak, "what to expect when your wife is expanding". While the baby is not growing in mummy's tummy but in her heart, I think daddy will definitely enjoy reading this. Plus it has tips at the end for all new fathers, however the baby might be coming into their lives. Thanks Ranju!

And we bought our first baby furniture! A lovely real wood 'Silver Cross' vintage high chair! My mom had a wood high chair when she was a baby and I always wanted one for my child whenever we would have one-and now we do! So there. Preparations have now begun.

Liana, our lovely agency co-ordinator in Toronto, has been sent all the documents with the Home Study report yesterday evening and as soon as she recieves it tomorrow morning, she will be sending them to the Ministry here in Canada for approval. Now we await the coveted Approval Letter.

Deepak signs the home study report, while Diane, our Adoption Practitioner, looks on.

The First Trimester is officially complete!