SUBMITTED

Things are moving along on the adoption front, albeit not as fast as we'd like.  Our dossier was submitted last Friday.  We will be reviewed at Thursdays meeting and hopefully receive our verbal referral then.  A theme of mine - it sure will be hard to wait.  Then it will be another few weeks before we receive the much sought after, official signature needed for travel.  We are really hoping that first trip will be in May.  Jerry will be travelling alone like he did during our last adoption.  It will be really hard not to be there, but I'll expect lots of updates and pictures.  Troy has been reported to have a hearing problem and in need of a hearing aid.  We don't really know the extent of the problem or if he has received the hearing aid yet.  We are looking at putting together a photo book through Costco for Jerry to take to give to Troy.  Might be nice for him to have pictures to learn about his new family.

On the home front, last week Meghan announced that he had lost recess for a day at school.  She didn't really want to fess up about what she had done.  I managed to get out of her that she was laughing because Kaden was being silly in class.  Not sure I received the whole story, but no word from the teacher so it must not have been too bad.