A little News

All people who know me (Denise) know I have little patience and plan everything. The adoption process has been my arch nemesis. We still do not have a set court date...but our adoption coordinator told me today that our lawyer is shooting for a date the first or second week of July. We hope to find out next week. We have to meet our girl 24 hours before court for legal purposes and get her a pre-adoption physical and visa pictures before too, plus the Marshall Islands are one day ahead of us. We also hope to spend 3 nights in Hawaii on the way...so we will need to leave about 5 days before court. So we will be buying some last minute tickets!

Here are a few things we know about our baby to be named Hazel at an unknown date:

Born 4/6/14...she will share birthday parties for life with her sister Gretta who's birthday is 4/7. (Yes..that means TWO diamond birthstones in a mothers ring for me. Score.) It also means all 3 girls in our house are Aries (stubborn rams- ohoh!)

She was 6lbs 3 oz at birth and 20 inches

She is a very passive baby. She will not know what has hit her when she meets her family!

She is the 7th child born to her mom. So we are filling our bags with clothes and gifts for her siblings.. We hope to keep in contact with her family as she grows so she can know them.

Her family is originally from Ailinglaplap Atoll about 170 miles west of Majuro where we are staying. It's where Kelly Slater goes to prep for his surf tours ;) 

I am posting a pic of a picture we had painted for her room. Yokwe is the greeting used in the Marshall Islands similar to Aloha. The walls are blue like the ocean water and we did tropical colors. She will have her own room- the boys will be sharing a room and the girls each get their own. Gretta wants to share when Hazel is old enough but we will see if that changes in a few years.