Wannabe Dads in the Big O

What's Going On?

Thanks for all the questions I get from friends and family wanting updates on our adoption process.  It is fun to talk about.

We are mostly in a waiting game right now.  We sent off our fingerprints to the FBI for them to okay us.  When those get back to us, we'll submit them and some remaining documents to the adoption agency, who will then complete the homestudy.  At that point we'll then just go on the list and starting waiting again.

This week our attorney did get back to us the first drafts of the batch of legal documents we've been needing to get for years -- wills, medical powers of attorney, etc.  We're reviewing them and then will meet with him to execute them.

I haven't written anything more in a long while about our foster experience.  Eventually over the weeks and months my desire to tell all of that has flamed out.  So, I'm not sure I'll write anymore installments of that past story.  Plus, it would have been complicated respecting confidentialities and complaining about folks and agencies without sounding like a negative, critical person that I don't want to sound like.

-- Scott

Fingerprinting and Baby Names

Last week we finally went and got finger printed.  Should have done it months ago.  This is required for the background check performed by the adoption agency.  Currently the FBI isn't accepting fingerprints from Nebraska (or something like that), so we went to Council Bluffs to get it done.  When I called the county jail about an appointment, they said that their only opening that day was 9 p.m.  So, we drove over on a cold, dark night.  It was kinda creepy.

It will be 4-6 weeks before the information is back from the FBI.

After the fingerprinting, we went to Flixx for a cocktail.  Michael wanted to discuss baby names.  So far the leading boy's name is Sebastian and the leading girl's name is Olivia.  I know we mentioned dozens of names, but I can't seem to recall of them right now.  I do remember Corazon, Truth, Briston, Ross, Randall, Oliver, Miles, Katherine, Marian, Douglas.

What are your suggestions?

-- Scott