As I was re-reading my adoption paperwork two nights ago, I saw where we could contact the National Visa Center to check on the status of our case. Being the Type A personality that I am, I feel totally helpless right now, in a process I have NO control over. This gave me a much appreciated chance to be proactive, and have something to do during the adoption. We knew that our case had already gone from the NVC to the US Consulate in China, and we knew that our paperwork would be at the consulate for 3-4 weeks. According to my calculations, the paperwork should either have been done by last Friday or this Friday. The NVC verified they sent the paperwork on already, and we needed to contact the Consulate for the status there. Boy am I glad I did. They e-mailed me back that they've had our paperwork, but are waiting on something from our adoption agency before they can begin to process it. UUUUHHHHHGGGGG. E-mails sent to the adoption agency revealed we needed to send them our paperwork from the NVC when we got it - I WISH SOMEONE HAD TOLD ME THAT WEEKS AND WEEKS AGO......I'VE HAD THE PAPERWORK FOR 3 WEEKS NOW!!!!! A quick e-mail today and they got the necesarry paperwork, and will have our stuff all delivered to the Consulate tomorrow. It will be 2 more weeks now added to our timeline. How frustrating!!!!!
On a totally unrelated topic, Peter and Zach decided to camp outside in Pete's tent tonight. I explained to them it was going to be HOT. But no, they argued they would be fine. Ok, Momma tried, learn the hard way. Zach came up from his shower wearing a blanket sleeper - which is fine inside with the air conditioner on, not great for 90 degree weather. (that was 2 hours ago, now it's 10:05 and still 84 degrees). He tried to tell me he would be fine, with those jammies on, he would not need a blanket. HHMMM, as hot as it is, you won't need a blanket at all. We finally convinced him to change into PJ shorts and a short sleeve jammie shirt. Off he went to the tent, happily camping for the first time in his life. The rest of us went off to the garden to plant some late veggies that Mike picked up for a great deal at the local greenhouse on the way home from work. Mike asked me to go down and fill a bucket with water, and the water spicket just happens to be by where the boys put their tent........ and Zach had all the window flaps zipped shut (he must have been roasting in there)........so being the good Mommy that I am, I had to shake the side of the tent and say GGGRRRRR. After a huge yelp from inside the tent, I calmed him down and convinced him it was only me. After that he was not going back to sleep while we were outside. OOPS.
( Now comes the stall... ) Mom, I have a loose tooth...... Yes Zach, I know (it's been loose for about 6 weeks now) ........ Mom, it's bleeding......... OK, get a kleenex from inside and go back to sleep. When he came back out, I decided to check his tooth out, and oh, my, it WAS almost out. He couldn't get ahold of it, and consented to let Mike try to pull it. Mike started to reach for his small pliers he keeps in his back pocket. No, Mike, you're going to scare him!!! Mike then tried to pull it with his fingers and could not get a grip on it. Zach then looked at Mike's pliers, checking them all out, and consented to letting Mike use those to pull on his tooth- MY dad used to threaten to use pliers to pull out our teeth to scare us into pulling out our loose teeth. Unfortunately, Mike couldn't grip it with the pliers either. Zach then worked and worked at it, until it came out. We convinced him, since it was past his bed time, the tooth fairy has already passed by this neighborhood and he would be on tomorrow night's schedule. He is so cute right now, with his Chinese accent and his slight lisp from his missing front tooth.
By the way, he then went back into the tent and saw a lightening bug inside, since he had forgotten to zip the door shut. Off he went into the house with his pillow - camping over. I think Pete is inside now too - he was too hot.
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