Checks on my list!!

I know, I know, I suck at keeping up with my blog!!! But to my defense, my computer is having a little bit of a break down making it really hard to do anything on the internet!

I do have some new updates which maybe dont sound too exciting but to me there is nothing better than checking things off your list of 'to dos'. I will admit, I sometimes cheat and check off waaaayy before I actually finish it, but I love to see some checks on a list (i'm such a freak)! ANYWAYS, so we have finished all of our stuff for Gladney, and Mary told me yesterday that our homestudy was delievered to CIS on Sept. the 13th. So now we're waiting for CIS to contact us for our fingerprint appointment which can take 4-6 weeks after your homestudy makes it to CIS so any day now! Then after we get that done we'll be waiting on our 171H letter from CIS which is the last thing to put into our dossier. In the meanwhile we are wrapping up our collection of paperwork for the dossier. I have a huge folder of things to put in the mail today to send to Kate (at KBS, the company that auth. things for your dossier, what a blessing they are). Hopefully everything is correct and we wont have to redo. I hate having to redo, and having to re-add them to my list, such a bummer! The last packet I sent to Kate I had a few redos so hopefully I got it right this time!

I also got some info on vaccinations. We need to contact our local travel clinic and make an appointment to get some shots. I know we'll need hep. vaccinations, which i hear is done in a series of shots, so we should get on that. I also have been told that its recommended that not only the traveling parents get the hep. vaccinations but anyone in the family. So does that mean only Ella or should grandparents get them too??? I'm a little scared of the vaccinations mainly giving them to Ella. I just hate putting anything into her body that I'm not sure what it'll do. I guess its all this info going around about school vaccinations. I also am totally confused on the maleria medicine. From what I'm gathering (and this could be completly wrong) the maleria med. is something that you take for several days while traveling and after travel. Apparently the mesquitos that carry maleria though are not in Addis and it is considered a "no risk" part of Africa. However they dont tell you straight up to take it or not to take it, they just leave it up to you. I guess I'll just wait and talk to the proffesionals, so more to come on that!!

Ella has been talking alot again about her baby SISTER from Africa. She is not even thinking about the fact that her sister could in fact turn out to be a brother! Some body is going to be in for a surprise if it doesnt go her way! Either way she'll be such a great big sister.