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Everyday we are with Myles his personality continues to blossom. Today was the day of belly laughter. I will never tire of looking into his eyes and hearing his laughter!
our journey across the miles to our Rwandan son
Video journey of our miles to Myles, by Uncle Paul
our referral picture
Meaning of Myles Mugisha
Myles (name given by us)
-Respect to a man who impacted our lives eternally, Miles Strodel
-The literal miles our Myles was brought to come home
-Hebrew meaning: “Gift from God”
Mugisha (name given by the sisters at the orphanage)
In Kinyarwanda the meaning is “Blessing”
You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
-Psalm 139:16
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
-Psalm 139:16
Mylestones
-5/13/09 FAMILY DAY! We are together at last!
-5/12/09 Leave Ethiopia for Dulles
-5/10/09 to Ethiopia for Visa
-5/2/09 Meet Myles for the first time!
-5/1/09 Peter and Laurel fly to Rwanda
-4/20/09 COURT DATE! Myles Mugisha Greer is our son!!!!
-4/13/09 Get our Rwandan court date scheduled for Monday, April 20!
-3/26/09 REFERRAL!!!
-2/17/09 Receive e-mail from the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion of our APPROVAL to adopt!
-11/24/08 Our file arrives in Rwanda and goes directly to the Prime Minister’s Office!
-11/20/08 Gladney sends dossier to Rwanda!
-11/13/08 Corrections made and dossier sent to Gladney
-10/28/08 Authenticated dossier arrived at Gladney with slight errors
-10/06/08 Rwandan Embassy Authenticating our dossier
-9/29/08 FedEx our dossier to Gladney!
-9/26/08 CIS approval!!! 5 month wait L
-6/11/08 CIS receives our homestudy
-6/11/08 FBI sends clearances
-6/05/08 Certificate of Gladney Approval!
-5/29/08 Get fingerprinted for CIS
-5/30/08 FBI prints FedExed
-5/01/08 CIS confirms receipt of application for I-600A
-4/28/08 Homestudy
-4/18/08 FedExed I-600A to CIS
-3/26/08 Stage 2 & 3 of Paperwork sent to Gladney
-3/04/08 Child Abuse sent, returned to us 3/15/08
-3/03/08 Initial Application Form(Stage 1)
-1/29/08 Adoption Information Sheet sent to get information about the brand new Rwandan program with Gladney Center for Adoption!
4 comments:
Laurel and Peter-
I am SO excited for you. He is absolutely adorable. I can;t stop looking at pictures. I call Jimmy into the computer every night and we marvel at his cuteness and your sheer JOY on all your faces. We can;t wait to meet him face to face!!!!
He is so handsome!!!
he is looking at you guys and thinking, "wow, these are my amazing parents the ones who love me and i get to go home with them." he obviously can't say it but he is thinking something like it. Love you guys and i can't wait to see this precious child !!
Laurel & Peter, thank you so much for posting while you are there! It is such a blessing to be able to see your journey!
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