The Chase is On

We received word on Monday from our adoption agency. Our application for Ethiopia has been approved. They pulled our Dossier from China today. So we are officially done with China and on our way to paper chasing for Hannah's little sister from Africa. This should go fairly quickly as we have a lot of it done from our China Dossier. The good news is that we did not have to pay the application fee ($250) and some our fees for China will transfer. Also we recently had to renew our immigration paper work (including being re fingerprinted) which the govt. recently started allowing one free renewal (this costs about $900). So we won't have pay that either. With the wait time for China getting longer each month we would have had to pay the fee to get our immigration paper work renewed as it would have expired again in 18 months. Saving the money is a good thing...the only bad thing (well maybe not so bad I don't know yet) is we both of us have to take a 10 hour (on-line) course on international adoption (fee $175). It is a new rule the National Council for Adoption has implemented for all families adopting internationally. We would have had to take the course even if we stayed with China. So all things considered we are very excited to get the chase going...for our baby girl. The one thing up in the air is what her name will be...we had chosen the name Zoey for our China baby but feel that but since we are changing things up and there are so many Zoe/Zoey s around we need to choose a new name. We already have a girl with a very popular name. Our paper prints all the names born at the hospital in the past year....this past year there 16 Hannahs and 8 Zoe/Zoey s. We need a name that is different...when we are at the water park I hear the name Hannah yelled way too much.
Anyway that is where things stand right now.
Blessings,
Bliss