The AWAA Yahoo chat group went crazy this week as apparently 9 children were referred to families. The first two I shared with you on Monday's post. So the stats are as follows:
2 Infant girls (Cordell and Kidd Family), 2 Infant boys (West Family and a family I do not know), mystery child, sibling group of 5 & 7 years, sibling group of 6 & 9 years. Ironically, the dossier of the family who is adopting one of the sibling groups traveled with ours to Ethiopia! When I saw their DTE (dossier to Ethiopia) date as 12/07/07 (same as ours) my heart did a flop! I realized once again that someday this will happen to us! It was an exciting moment.

We also were notified that instead of waiting 90 days for a child who is abandoned at an orphanage to be released for adoption, the country of Ethiopia has changed it to 60 days! This will allow children to be adopted sooner!

The final news is that AWAA has now partnered with another orphanage! They have only been working with Kids Care in Addis Ababa. Now they are also working with Kingdom Vision International. Hopefully this will allow AWAA to keep up with the large amount of families now in the program who are waiting for their children to be referred!