Join us on our journey to adopt an infant girl from Ethiopia. We are the Kern family...Mark, Jenny, Katie (16, bio.) and Ella (2, China).
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Mark and I went to have our fingerprints taken.....again. They expire after 15 months. Luckily, this time, there was no fee and the process went pretty quickly. We got there early in the morning and were done well within an hour.
7/16/08 Application submitted to AWAA
8/20/09 Application approved
1/9/09 DTE - Dossier (paperwork) to Ethiopia
9/30/09 Received "on-deck" e-mail
11/10/09 Referral received
11/12/09 Referral acceptance mailed to AWAA
11/19/09 Mark buys ticket to travel to ET to visit baby "H"
11/25/09 Mark leaves for ET
11/27/09 ET time-Mark meets baby "H" for the first time!!
11/30/09 Received court date of Christmas Eve!
12/4/09 Mark and Jenny get re-fingerprinted
12/23/09 Received December update!
12/24/09 Passed court! Zoie is a Kern!
1/15/10 Bought plane tickets!
2/1/10 Met Zoie!
2/2/10 Picked up Zoie!
2/6/10 Zoie arrived at her home in San Diego
Wait time was quoted at 9-11 months from DTE for a healthy, infant girl referral. We received our referral at 10 months and 1 day.
Ethiopia is located on the horn of Africa. The capital is Addis Ababa. Population is nearly 77 million with an estimated 4.3 million orphans. There are 5.22 births per woman. The offficial language is Amharic. The major agricultural export crop is coffee. Injera (a flat, spongy, bread) is the staple food.
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