I got my hands back!

I can now use my hands with reckless abandonment once again! We were fingerprinted this morning at Dept. Homeland Security for our I-800 application. See how excited we were about it.

We once again were going to take these cute action photos outside the building but then Adam mentioned someone recently got in trouble taking pictures of federal buildings, so we opted not to. True story. I think we need to start working some personality into our photos. Suggestions welcome. Our child will look back and think we were nerdy instead of the terribly hip 30 somethings we are. Ester, our camera hog, still made it in this picture. She's a diva.




We did manage this photo of Adam that looks a bit like the photos of Bigfoot in the wild. That is if Bigfoot wore khaki pants and programmed software during the day. We have a new digital SLR camera we are obviously still trying to learn to use. It's on our list "to-do before we go to china" so hopefully our photos will be improving!

Fingerprinting went as well as it can in a non-criminal situation. We had avoided the use of hot objects, yardwork, knives, and papers, for the past few days trying not to damage our pristine fingers. A little dramatic.....yes. I found a little cut on my finger as we were sitting and waiting. I think I was told by Adam to "stop messing with it" about five times while we sat there. He must be practicing scolding for our children. My fingerprints rolled okay on the machine but as she was doing them I asked if the machine was telling her whether they would be rejected......and she said no! They will send me a letter within 30 days if the system rejects them. Oh good, that is comforting to know. She did say she has been doing it for ten years and looking at them they would be just fine. She must have seen the panic flashing
in my eyes

 because she went through and showed me all of them and how they were clear.

Yet another google images search photo of a government building to add to the others that we visited on our journey to bring our child home. An interesting fact, the Omaha Dept. of Homeland Security Building in Omaha was named in 2008 as one of the top four Livable Buildings for Environmental and Energy Design by UC-Berkeley. It is really a nice building. Someday we will probably drive them around to all of the buildings we visited in their journey to us in Omaha while they sit in the back ignoring us and playing with their iPad.

Next step: await the approval of our I-800 and hope our documents that are currently in the abyss of the US State Dept/ Chinese Embassy return to Oregon soon!