court order

We have now received the written court order and the children's home has applied for Usha's passport. This now means we can set tentative travel dates!!! We sent our dates to the agency who is making sure they will work for everyone in India. If everything is okayed it will be a "go" and we can book our trip!!!

Guardianship!!

This is the day that all families who are adopting from India wait for....being told that guardianship has been granted!!!! We will be traveling in a few weeks to bring our sweet girl home...yipppeeeee!

Update

We received an update from our agency yesterday. They informed us that our case is scheduled to be heard within the month and that we will probably travel in Feb or March!!! They also said we should go ahead and apply for our Visa! This is such exciting news. Usha is coming home soon!!

Success

Okay, I may have started to figure this out a bit. I just posted a picture of our girl looking at our photo album that we sent her!
All in all, the waiting is so tough and I've been following a blog of a family that is at the orphanage now and it's very bittersweet. I'm thouroughly enjoying following their journey but I cried today when they posted an entry about a game the girls play. Apparently, it's a game about when their daddy will come to get them and they are all so hopeful that one day it will happen for them. If I cry just reading about it, I'm sure I'll be an emotional mess when we are actually there to see it. Still, I'm thrilled for the little girl this family is bringing home and thrilled that we are lucky enough to bring one home ourselves!
As always, the wait continues...

Success!

And Still trying to figure this out

It is Dec. 14 and I still can't really figure out this blog. I would like to add pictures but no clue how to do it.
Anyway, as for the Usha update...we are still waiting. We did receive a new video and lots of new pictures AND there is a couple in India right NOW adopting from the same orphanage we will be going to. They have posted pictures of the orphanage and grounds and we have spotted Usha in three of the pictures! She seems to love having her picture taken.
We are watching their blog closely as we will basically be doing the exact same trip they are doing now. The big question is when will that be??? For now, we continue to wait.....

Still trying to figure out the blog

I am still trying to figure out how to set up my blog...so here goes again.
In the meantime I thought I would post our timeline for our adoption of Usha:

Dec 2008 - Finished homestudy (we actually had it written for China as we thought we were adopting from there)
Jan 2009 - Received I-171H from USCIS (for China)
April 2009 - Saw a posting about a baby on Rainbowkids and called agency (AIAA) to inquire
April 209 - Was told that baby was no longer available but wondered if we'd be interested in information on an older girl
April 2009 - Received info on Usha with picture and video..knew she was ours!
April/May 2009 - Had our homestudy and USCIS ammended to India
June 18, 2009 - Dossier sent to India ...(phewww! that's alot of paperwork to put together)
Oct. 14, 2009 - Recieved NOC (no objection clearance) from India
Nov. 2009 - waiting for guardianship so we can travel but received new pictures and written report on Usha
Jan, 2010 - Received word that we passed scrutiny and are waiting for a hearing date to grant guardianship

more as it comes up.......