Still waiting...

At this point we are still waiting for our letter of acceptance or letter seeking confirmation as it is now called.
We are on day 60 of this wait which for awhile seemed like was about how long people were waiting. Now it seems people are waiting longer than that so we'll see. It is so very random. There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why one person waits over 100 days and another 1 or 2 months. Originally I was hoping to have Noah home by his 2nd birthday. Definitely not going to happen. Optimistically I would say October but may be closer to December. I still have not gotten much done around here in terms of preparing. I tend to be a last minute person and then just run around stressing out about everything last minute. It always works out in the end. Wish I was different, but I'm not. At least we have all our paperwork filled out for now!
Since we wont be with Noah for his 2nd birthday we'll be sending a Birthday care package through Ann at Red Thread to help him celebrate. Maybe we'll even get some photos of him celebrating his birthday.
I did finally find a site that gave me a meaning to Noah's Chinese name- (I don't think I can share that yet until we get our letter of acceptance either)
His name means "revive" or "renew" and Noah means "comfort". We plan on keeping his Chinese name as his middle name. Yes it will be a mouthful (anything is a mouthful with Pogroszewski) but unless we hear differently it has been his name for the last 2years and is part of who he is and this gives him the option of going by either name he chooses.
Ephram is an old testament name and we chose it because it is a name frequently used in Ethiopia and we had heard it many times and just loved it. It means "fertile"- ironically! At the time Ephram was being called "mamush" which means "baby boy" since he did not have a known formal name.

Well it's late, that's all I've got for now! Hopefully we'll get lucky and get our notification soon. Until then I should probably start painting!