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I love these. This is kind of fun. I will make mine as short as possible.
When we decided to have kids, it took us 20 months to conceive our bio daugther. We started trying again when she was 18 months, conceived right away and miscarried at 12 weeks. After a few more years of TTC we decided to a adopt. We first went with domestic infant adoption. After 2 years of waiting with them, lots of "almosts" and 2 failed placements - including one where we were in touch with the emom for 5 months, then she gave birth and never contaced us or our agency. We ended up feeling guided to do fost/adopt.
It took 6 months to be approved and by this point our bio daugther was almost 8. We now wanted a young sibling group. Six months later while on vacation, driving through Yellowstone, we got THE call. We were selected for a sib set of 3, ages 3, 5 and 6. We finished our vacation, got home and met them 4 days later. We saw them every day for 5 days and then they were ours forever.
Fast forward 3 1/2 months (to just this week); we get another phone call that the kids worker wants to place their younger brother with us. And tomorrow we start that transtion.
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August 2005 - approved with 1st agency
October 2006 - 1st match (she lost the baby at 7 months)
November 2006- 2nd match
May 2007 - birthmom chose to parent
July 2007 - decided to switch agencies
Jan. 2008 - approved with agency #2
July 2008 - placed with our forever kids - sib set of 3
November 2008 - suprise phone call and we added their younger brother
March 24, 2009 - finalized adoptions for first 3
June 16, 2009 - finalize adoption for #4
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