Waiting for Ministry Approval

So its been a few weeks since our file was submitted to the Ministry of Children and Youth Services. We have since been advised by Diane that she spoke to someone at the ministry who wanted the "quotation" marks removed but otherwise the HS looked great. Diane quickly sent in the corrected papers the same day and the lady from the ministry advised her that she was recommending the approval to the director now and that we should get the approval letter within a week or so. This was last week so Im guessing the approval should be in the mail now!

Also, we got a bit delayed (or maybe not, after all since the approval letter is still awaited) and we were advised to file the sponsorship papers to Immigration Canada. The letter from CIC confirming that a file had been opened for the child's sponsorship is required with the rest of the paperwork which will be sent to the Kazakh consulate for legalisation and approval. We recvd the file no. by email within a week of sending the docs in so now we are just waiting for the official letter stating the same. Should be here by next week perhaps.

The new medical forms for Kaz adoptions is being filled by Dr Kap as we speak and so by next week the file should be ready to be sent to Liana so that she can bring it to the Kaz consulate beginning of October. And then...we wait...and hope...and pray.

In the meanwhile Deepak & I visited my family in California and attended a beautiful wedding in Napa Valley (Ric & Andrea's). Here are 2 pics from our trip. 

Feeding the ducks with my aunt and sister-in-law at their lakefront home near Sacramento

My gorgeous Indo-Chinese nephews: Guru, Vijay, Sanjay & Ajay. How could a Kazakh baby not fit in! :)

With Jim, Luma and Monica at R&A's beautiful Napa wedding

I have also been shortlisting gorgeous strollers. Stokke, Quinny Moodd, Baby Jogger City mini GT and the Mamas & Papas Sola having made the final shortlist. nothing but the best for our baby! :)