Our fingerprints are done!

Great news today. I called the FBI today since the supervisor never called me back on Monday and the guy proceeded to tell me that both of our fingerprint cards are done processing. Yeah!!! I guess the supervisor must have worked some magic so I guess I will forgive her for not calling me back! I asked when I can expect them back and he says they should be in the mail by no later than next Monday. I don't really understand why they might not be in the mail until then if they are complete now but I guess that is the government for you. I realized today that I have now talked to the FBI at least 3 times and sent at least 2 packages to them. How many people can say that?? And we aren't even criminals!

Lutheran Social Services was very excited to here this latest development so we are back on track as of right now. I'm hoping to be traveling by mid-July. Yesterday I faxed Kariana's immigrant form to the US Embassy in Bogota so now they have my application which they will put together with the Article 5 letter that the US government is sending to them based on our approval we received last week. It was interesting to try to figure out how to fax to a foreign country. I felt like I had to enter about 30 numbers into the machine as it patiently waited for me to figure out what I was doing. It is truly amazing (and frustrating) the amount of steps we have to go through AFTER we get referred the baby. I thought all the hard work was done to get to this point but man was I wrong on that one. I believe we will know our travel dates in about 2 weeks.

The boys and I all had our shots for Colombia last week. Kerry went a couple weeks ago so everyone is medically ready to go now. My arm was sore for 3 days since I needed more shots than anyone (3 shots). I need more because I am staying a lot longer than everyone else so I could be exposed to more. I also needed one more than Kerry because I couldn't get one of the shots I needed a few years ago when we went to Burma because I was pregnant with Cohen at the time. She wrote us all RXs for travelers diarrhea and altitude sickness since Bogota is about 8,500 feet. Every time the doctor would say 'diarrhea' Kaleb would get all grossed out and whisper to me 'She's talking about poop! Yuck!" Cohen wasn't paying attention to what the doctor was saying because he was like a crazy child running all over the place. I blame the sucker the nice desk nurse gave us as we waited for the doctor to come in. Ha!