Happy New Year! We are ready for 2013!

I need to get better at this blog thing.  Most people I see do an entry everyday, or at least once a week.  With the impending arrival of 2 new children, I highly doubt that will be achievable.  Regardless, a lot has changed and happened since out last entry.

Baby in the Belly: Jana is now over 28 weeks.  We have gone through a few hurdles over the past few weeks but are happy to say things are looking good.  Jana's placenta has been, shall we say, not so well positioned and since the 9 week ultrasound at a lower position in the uterus, one that is not ideal for a natural delivery.  With such, we had to have a follow up ultrasound at 20 weeks and again this week.  Can't say I was disappointed, as we were able to see baby in the belly moving all around in there.  With a sigh of relief, we got the results which showed the placenta is moving higher and higher which will allow for our planned home and natural birth!  With that worked out, we have started the planning for the birth and are excited that my mom and Jana's aunts Bev and Steph will be coming to help.

Baby in Ethiopia:  With such good news there is some I guess you could say "not good news" in relation to the adoption.  Since Jana is getting later into the pregnancy, we are approaching the time where she would not be able to travel to Ethiopia for court if we were to receive our referral in the coming months.  As you may have noticed from previous posts, things have really picked up.  We are now number 18, and move nearly 5-6 or 7 spots each month.   With these numbers and with the flexibility of our in referral criteria, we could easily be looking at receiving a referral in the coming month or two.  With this conflict, we had to go "on hold" until early summer at which time we will then go back at on the waiting list (probably at that time will be number 1) and hopefully quickly get a referral and start to next step of the process.  This would put us traveling to Ethiopia as early as August if all goes smoothly. 

Can't say we really know what would have been best here.  Part of us wanted to have the adoption finished before the arrival of biological baby but were scared to think of going from a family of 3 to a family of 5 so quickly.  It is surely disappointing to have to delay the process as this also means we have to update our home study and other paperwork, but this also gives us the time to focus on Baby in the belly, get settled into being a family of 4, then work on number 5.