Thanks for your feedback, MilehighDad.
I have written a cover letter for both situations, explaining why I think we're a good match for the children. In the first case, I faxed it with the HS, but in the second, it went through the agency, so I faxed it later, with a page of photos and our PRIDE certification. It appears that in the second case, they were already narrowing it down while I was still trying to get all my paperwork in to accompany the HS. So I will continue to do this and be sure now that I think I have all the addendums I need for now (!) to send or request to have everything send together.
I wonder, too, if I couldn't just ask my SW for the child's CW info, since none of them were trying to call on my behalf, and they seemed perplexed by my not being able to contact them directly. Though I do worry about getting yelled at, as in "how did you get this number?!"
I do understand that each agency has a different goal, and neither's priority is helping US. But I wonder if that's where the $20,000 agencies come in.
Thanks again, and if anyone else also has wisdom to share, I'm all ears 
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Karolina
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Hoping to adopt Hispanic or multiracial  or  under age 5
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11/29/1998~met soulmate 
5/8/03~Married DH 
May '08~Start Adoption journey
Oct 22, '08~Homestudy complete
Dec '08-July '09 ~ match w/ 2 bmoms, both fall through 
March 25 - April 25 ~ fost/adopt orientation, PRIDE training
July ~ officially licensed foster parents 
Sept 14 ~ foster care orientation at next county over
Sept 28 ~  "V" coming to stay with us for a while!
Dec 11 ~ Baby V's disposition hearing
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Lil Guy
November '08 ~ meet w/ gma but don't pursue
July '09 ~ contact SW but unresponsive
November 5, '09 ~ meet w/ parents, want to place w/ us, GAL thinks it can work, DSS disagrees
November 23, '09 ~ TPR continued until February
February 9, '10 ~ permanency hearing
~~~Are we adopting him? Are we not adopting him? Can we please get a straight answer!?~~~
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