Filed under: Daily Life Blurbs | Tags: Art Sparks, Ed Whitfield, Louisville Zoo
Just to keep you up-to-date on our stateside visit….
We are currently in Louisville. One afternoon this week, we took the kiddos to the L’ville Zoo. Perhaps the funnest part was riding around on the train! We saw some cool wallabees, an ostrich, goats, bongo and got to check out lorikeet landing—where you get to feed the birds and they come around to ‘land on you’. One landed on Brayden’s head…fun times!
Then, a couple days ago, we got to visit Grandpa Smith and Marilyn. This is Jason’s Grandpa…Ezri’s great-grandpa. He commented that Ezri was very cute….”she must get that from her great-grandpa,” he said!
Yesterday morning, we went to the Speed Art Museum’s ArtSparks. This is a special exhibit/section especially for kiddos. They have water color painting, drawing, play areas, and many other wee attractions that allow the kids to experience various mediums of art. It was a very fun time and we followed it off with a classic American “Happy Meal” from McD’s. (Apples wedges as a side, eh?…McDonald’s is going a bit healthier!)
As far as the adoption goes we’ve conducted an updated homestudy on Wednesday so it is possible (although a long shot), that USCIS might approve us early this week. Most likely they will either want more information or continue attempt to pass the buck. We’ve also been in contact with congressman Ed Whitfield’s staff (he represents Muhlenberg county). We talked to a nice lady named Andrea who told us she has experience helping families adopting from Guatemala and says that she has up to 6 different contacts that she usually works through. We’re hoping we might hear back from them early next week sometime as well. The adoption decree from Guatemala is final, Javi’s birth certificate has the Case family name on it, Javi’s Guatemalan passport says “Case”. All we are waiting on is for the US immigration to issue his visa and US passport so that he can gain rights as a permanent resident of the United States. Come on Uncle Sam, get it moving! Thanks for checking in! The Case family
