BIG NEWS

Well the agency called today and said that we're out of PGN (the court system). So much for the average of 10-12 weeks, we cleared it in 4!! They said that since we were among the first to hit the courts after the law changes, there was no one ahead of us.

So, the current projected timeframe to travel to pick her up is about the first or second week of May!!! Holy crap!!! I was beyond any expectation that she'd come home in May, so this is indeed amazing news. It's all very rough timeframe-wise and subject to change, in either direction.

The next steps if, you're curious, as I understand them are:
The attorney will get her birth mom's fourth and final sign off on the adoption, then will get a new birth certificate with her new last name (Cassidy....for now). These events could take a few days, or a few weeks. Then they will get her a Guatemalan passport, which takes a few days. Documents will have to be translated and returned to the Embassy, that's about 3 weeks, then the Embassy will issue the order for the 2nd DNA test (to make sure she is the same baby who was tested along with her mom back when all of this started) and once the hard copy of the DNA test gets back to the Embassy, they issue a pink slip, which means that we have an appointment with them 10-14 days in the future and then we'll practically be on our way! Holy crap!!!

We have to do some shopping (can you say Amazon.com and Target.com?) !! At this rate, we may practically go from Whistler to Guatemala City. Cool!

When I hear more, I will post it so y'all will know what's happening and how soon we expect to wrench Kat from the nearly tropical climate that she's used to and bring her to the Pacific NorthWest. At least she'll see summer first.