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dominic s homecoming countdown dominic s homecoming countdown this blog was created to keep our family and friends up to date during our adoption adventure our little guy dominic is in guatemala and we can t wait to bring him home as of march 30 2006 we are home and enjoying our new life as a family wednesday september 13 2006 i am one watch out world i think that is what our little man would say if he could speak dominic has a fabulous first birthday he loved his balloons and his very own cake he doesn t really understand the concept of gift and he doesn t realize how many cool new things he has but i am sure he will notice them soon he is a very very happy baby and we are a very very happy family dominic has learned how to stand up all by himself it is the cutest thing he will be in the middle of the room and he will suddenly sprout up just like a little flower he realizes that he is standing up and he gets a big smile on his face then he lands on his rear end it is really funny he stands up more and more all the time and i m sure that he will figure out how to take a step soon we think we might have 2 words from him right now we have decided that he refers to me as mamamamama give or take a few ma s he usually says this when he sees me or when he wants me to hold him so we guess that is his name for me the new word we might have is tee which we think is for kit tee dadadada is creeping up into third place and we might even be hearing bah for balloons we had our post placement appointment with our agency and everything went really well megan loved meeting dominic and he loved showing off for her we had a nice long talk about our love for guatemala frank and i really love the country and we hope that we will be able to add a sibling from guatemala to our family someday life has been crazy now that i am back to school full time i am thankful that i am busy because it keeps my mind away from the fact the i am not with my little boy we have a really great situation and he is right across the street from my school all day long he has 2 other little boys to play with i think that the socialization is great for him he makes so many different sounds at home and i am sure that he got them from the other kids he really does well at jeff and michelle s house michelle hasn t had any problems getting him to sleep knock on wood and he adores her i will admit that my favorite part of the day is when i go to pick him up when he sees me his entire face lights up and he races over to me as fast as he can i get a big hug and a baby kiss and lots of smiles i don t think there are many things in this world that make me as happy as this does this will be our last blog entry it has been one full year since dominic was born in our hearts thank you so much for following us on our journey when i think back to the email i received last september 16th it give me chills to think that the beautiful little boy in the referral pictures is now my son after months of staring at pictures and praying for everything to be completed we are now together as a family and no one can ever take our dominic away from us you will never now how much your kindness and support has meant to me thank you for reading and thank you for your prayers posted by lisa wednesday september 13 2006 17 comments tuesday august 22 2006 dirty laundry i won t try to hide our dirty laundry from you because dominic had so much fun playing in it and these pictures are very cute it doesn t take much to entertain this kid he had so much fun rolling around in this stuff the past few weeks have been pretty eventful for us we actually made it out to a movie while grandmom and poppop were babysitting frank had several of his former students stop by to visit and meet dominic my aunt diane and my cousin jessica came to visit with travis jessica s little boy he is almost 2 and he showed dominic all kinds of big boy tricks it was nice to get together and for the boys to finally meet last thursday dominic decided to show one of our super duper baby gates who was boss and ended up taking a ride down our deck steps i wasn t home but frank said he cried for about 2 minutes and then wanted to play again he is a tough little dude frank took him to the er just to make sure that everything was ok and dominic was fine the worst part was the little cut on his face you can see it in the picture but it is much better now his poppop gave him a new nickname the guatemalan deck diver on friday we had a very nice visit with his greatgrandfather val we went out for lunch and played in the house we spent the weekend at the beach and drumroll please dominic stood up for the very first time all by himself he did it about 8 times for his nana but i only saw it twice one time he stood up right in the middle of his baby pool he can go from sitting to kneeling to standing it is so cute today dominic and i had a great lunch with two of my former co workers nancy and joe at the cheescake factory i have been eating lunch out way too often i need to get back to my 30 minute 8th grade lunch period we sat there for about 2 hours and dominic was a perfect little angel he is getting much better about going out to eat and traveling he is such a good natured baby and he is so happy all of the time he expresses his happiness with clapping now and he is getting very good at it his first birthday is right around the corner here is dominic with my second cousin travis posted by lisa tuesday august 22 2006 2 comments thursday august 10 2006 summer is flying by it is august already i have been going in to school for inservice meetings and workshops and i am trying to get myself ready to go back my first day is dominic s first birthday we have done some practicing with going to day care and dominic seems to be doing great i am sure it will be much harder on me than it will be on him heck he will have other kids to play with and tons of toys around what a life i am very lucky that dominic will only be across the street from my school our guidance counselor lives across the street and his wife stays home with their son we are so lucky that she will be taking care of dominic they are both very kind and caring people if he needs me i am just a few steps away dominic is doing great here are a few of his recent developments claps hands and even claps his hands when you tell him to dribbles soccer ball while crawling kicks soccer ball when standing understands the words ball and truck says the words mama and dada but might not connect them with us is trying to say kitty kah and ball bah races up the stairs when the gate is down and giggles because he knows he shouldn t be on the steps holds and drinks a few sips from a sippy cup and then throws it on the floor so i will pick it up congrats to betsy on her new house awesome happy 1st birthday to savanna and carlton yippee to erin on her beautiful baby girl referral congratulations to our friends ryan and angela on the birth of their little boy dylan i m so happy for everyone other new things we took dominic down on the beach for the first time he was a little frightened of the ocean and wanted to eat the sand we were only there for about 20 minutes maybe next year we just got a new car that has lots of extra room for the little guy it s a chevy equinox it is a bit bigger than my focus i cried when i traded her in but it will be better for our family in the long run dominic has spent time with both sets of his grandparents and he celebrated his grandmom s birthday with dinner at applebees his nana and grandpa visited last week and helped us with some major landscaping in our back yard thank you and dominic has started watching pre season eagles games with his dad we might be creating a monster enjoy the pictures posted by lisa thursday august 10 2006 6 comments friday july 21 2006 growing so fast we took dominic to the pediatrician the other day just for a weight check he is up to 16 lbs 13 oz he gained 1 lb and 4 oz in 5 weeks we were really happy with that if he makes it to 19 lbs by his first birthday he will be on the american charts right now he isn t in a percentile we aren t too concerned because according to the guatemalan charts he is right on track he feels like he is gaining a pound a day i can t believe how quickly he is growing my baby isn t a baby anymore he is really turning into a little boy he loves toy cars and trucks and making messes aimee had chrissy luke dominic and me over for a really nice little lunch yesterday luke is almost 3 months and you can tell by the pictures that dominic is way out of of the infant stage they were very very cute together dominic was fascinated with luke s crying looks like he was trying to make him feel better i think his favorite thing by far is the water we went to visit our friend susan on sunday and dominic played in the baby pool for 2 hours he loves it the other pictures are from his bath he tries to stand up all the time it is very hard to keep him down he has mastered shaking his head no which is probably not a good things he probably just knows it because i have to say no to him all the time he is always looking for trouble no wonder i am so tired all the time what a face we are really enjoying every second that we have with him i know that we are really lucky to both have the summer off i think that dominic is really growing attached to us it will be hard not to be with him during the day once we got back to school i hope i make it so many people have done it and i have many good roles models to follow so i know that i will be ok dominic spent the night with his grandmom and poppop so we could go to the movies and he did just great he is very good about staying away from home we saw dead man s chest what did you think i liked the first one much better i did like the fights in this one i hated the ending how could she do that so bitter congratulations to meredith and mark on the birth of their 9 lb son mark he is adorable tomorrow the three of us will be traveling to my friend kim s baby shower i will finally get to see her belly and she will get to meet our little guy from there we are heading to the the beach with nana and grandpa for a few days stay cool and safe posted by lisa friday july 21 2006 8 comments monday july 17 2006 dinner with dominic posted by lisa monday july 17 2006 4 comments our adoption timeline 6 1 05 met with agency and asked a million questions about the adoption process 6 21 05 signed with agency 7 30 05 fingerprinting for ins approval 8 26 2005 home study visit 8 29 05 received completed copy of home study 9 5 05 dominic carlos arrives 9 14 05 accepted referral not yet paper ready 2nd reading of adoption law about to take place 9 21 05 dossier 1 sent to guatemala with poa without ins approval 9 24 05 name mistake new copy of poa completed and sent to guatemala 9 27 05 dossier 1 mia in transit time to make a new dossier 10 4 05 dossier 2 completed and with agency 10 7 05 dossier 1 found and arrives safely in guatemala 10 12 05 finally ins approval the adoption process can begin in guatemala 10 31 05 dna test social worker interview completed 11 11 05 positive dna results sent to us embassy in guatemala 12 8 05 received us embassy preapproval in guatemala 12 19 05 out of family court 12 21 05 entered pgn 1 17 to 19 06 amazing visit with dominic 1 24 06 pgn wants additional documentation 2 14 06 back in pgn 2 27 06 out of pgn 3 8 06 new birth certificate issued 3 21 06 we re pink 3 26 06 on the way to guatemala 3 28 06 embassy appointment he s ours forever 3 30 06 we re home places and people i love to visit guatemalan adoption information and news current guatemalan time on the road to adopt savanna s saga it s a journey tales from the stirrups wingnut journey jesus was not a republican the long long journey our two tots waiting for ingrid angel s blog waiting for the pot to boil deian s blog archives september 2005 october 2005 november 2005 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