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We are completely smitten with our precious little boy. We got the call this morning at 11am...and Peter RUSHED home to be together to talk with our lovely caseworker Natalie and view his pictures together. WOW. Our Myles is almost 6 months old and has penetrating almond-shaped eyes that melt me each time I look into them. He's perfect and lovely and adorable and ready to be cuddled and smooshed and kissed a kazillion trillion times.
If you'd like to see pictures, please e-mail me. laurel.greer@gmail.com We cannot post them to the web until our court date has passed.
We love our precious baby boy. He is a gift & a blessing (and that name has more significance than I can share right now). :)
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!
23 comments:
We are so thrilled for you! As a fellow Rwandan adoptive family, your reality is our hope in the coming months! We'd love to see a picture, if you'd be comfortable sharing. We are praying for you and your family.
Heidi Spore
spore@fctc.coop
Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!! I just happened to be on facebook and heard the good news. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!! I am SO happy for you!!!!!
Yeah!!! We are so happy for you! What a joy to know the sweet face of the one you've been waiting for! We rejoice with you! We'd love to see pictures!
Love,
Tim and Kiera
SO excited!!!! How long is the approx. wait to find out the court date?
Words just don't seem sufficient. We are so grateful. Can't wait to see pictures.
To him be the glory! You are blessed!
OH YAY!!! So happy for you! Not too much longer now!
HAPPY TEARS HAPPY TEARS!!!! Congratulations!!!! I cannot WAIT for more :) :) :) :)
I am so happy for you!!!!!!!!!!
The day you have been waiting for (and we along with you)! PRAISE GOD! What great news! So thrilled for you. So so thrilled.
What happens next?
Praise the Lord! One step closer! The kids and I just came in from being with some friends and we got "the news" together via the blog! We definitely want to see pictures! We printed pictures of Tariku and pray for him often--a picture certainly makes things more real (especially for the kidos!) Love you guys. Know that we rejoice and delight in your good news! Love you all!
AHHHH!!!!! So excited!
Congratulations! Us fellow Rwanda adopters are thinking of you and your precious new child. Sending love, congratulations and peace, Rebecca
Yay! My husband and I adopted from Ethiopia and we have been checking out your blog as we decide if Rwanda is our next stop and we were told that there was a Rwanda referral today and how precious "he" is so I raced over to the blog to see the news! So so happy for you!
This is so exciting!! So so happy for you all, when you get a chance we would love to see a picture of the new family member. Congrats again, and sending you all lots of love!
I was waiting on pins and needles for you as you've been posting this week. Yay!!
Congratulations! We were in the orphanage every day twice a day for about 2 weeks and we got to know most of the babies very well. Would you mind sharing the name the orphanage gave your son? We are so excited to see the babies being adopted...we think of them every day!
So happy !!!!!!!! Woo Hoo. God is so good. We are thrilled to hear your good news.
Hi Friends-Please e-mail me and I'd LOVE to share pics! laurel.greer@gmail.com
We have just submitted our dossier through America World (after changing over from Ethiopia- God moved our hearts in an unmistakable way) and now we are just beginning the wait. I have been checking your blog daily to see if you have received your referral. Congratulations!! I would love to see a picture if you feel comfortable. amazingmommy@gmail.com
Emily Bowers
Myles Mugisha - Do you know who he is? He is our GRANDSON!! We just thought you should know!
With love and tears of much joy!
Gramma and Grampa
Congratulations! What a blessing he will be to you and you will be to him. Josh and I would love to see pictures - carla.m.evans@gmail.com:)
Yeah!!! What an exciting time!
Much love from Elliotts.
I am so happy for you!!! And for him!! Blessings and congratulations!!!
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