I wish I had something exciting to report....

Nothing new to report - except our last medical update. Yep, he gained more weight. The chunky monkey is up to 27 pounds and is being sent to a dietician at age 10 months. Yikes! Erich can't wait to get him home and hit the trails running. I think he believes he's going to run before he crawls. We'll just let him keep thinking that. Anywho - hopefully we will be out of PGN this week and then it should be around 4-6 weeks after that. So keep on praying - he will be home really soon. It can't be as long as it has been!

Love
Cory

Finally back in PGN....

We received our Central Authority registration one week ago today. Everyone at CA and the attornies in Guatemala worked all weekend to get us registered by the deadline of February 12th. Then Maria was rushing around getting everyone back into PGN hopefully for the final time. We made it back in yesterday 2/18. Now once again we wait.... So let's sit back and hope for a speedy run through PGN! :)

Guatemala 2008

2nd Visit with Chase in Guatemala

What an adventure.... it was definitely a different experience than last time. Chase is very attached to his new foster mom (we think she never puts him down.) The first day he would only allow me to hold him - which was sad because Erich couldn't wait to meet and hold his son. However, as you can see from the photos it just took him about a day and he was warming up to all of us including his grandpa. He is very healthy and happy. It was a little easier to depart this time knowing how much he loved his FM and that it would only be a short while until we were back to get him for good.

Good News vs. Bad News - Which one first?

Let's do the bad: When the Central Authority was originally formed three people were appointed under the old President. Then the new guy came in, wanted his own people, and fired the old ones. Now the old ones are filing a suit, how do you sue the President??? This means that the CA will not be registering anymore cases or issuing the certification that we need to get back into PGN. Therefore, we wait until this all gets resolved.

Good News: We leave on Thursday to see the little guy. YEAH!!! Don't tell anyone but we might have an extra person on board when we return. ha ha

We have been registered!!!

Over the past couple of weeks things have been moving along nicely in Guatemala. The Central Authority has been set up,our forms have been filled out and we have been registered. We now wait 8 business days and Maria will go back to pick up the official certificate of registration. Then you know what that means: back to PGN we go. We are hoping that PGN really wants the cases completed that our under the old rules - so hurry up PGN and get to processing.....

Only 12 more days until we see Chase again....

Medical Update at 7 1/2 months

As you can see Chase's foster mom is definitely taking care of him. He is now 21 pounds; that means he has gained 3lbs. since he has been with her. Wow!!! He has no idea how many people can't wait to pinch those cheeks.