Wednesday, December 15, 2010

2010 Advent Calendar Activities


a bootleg of Leo's preschool picture


Decorating the Christmas Tree


The boys pretending to be Santa











Wil loves his Elmo camera from Grandma Stewart




Our Advent Calendar and following events.....I was a little late getting it started, so we are counting down the 15 days of Christmas. The boys decorated the envelopes. They are so cute! You can see on the left side, Leo made our family in Gingerbread Men on one envelope and in cookies (including Shane the dog) on the bottom left :-) We also ran out of red envelopes, so Leo made day 15 with a dinosaur envelope!

Leo wakes up every morning, comes down the stairs, and heads right for the envelope!
Day 15: Pile into the car to see Christmas lights at Glendale Glitters!
Day 14: Make Christmas Cookies
Day 13: "Jingle" your neighbors by delivering some of your Christmas Cookies
Day 12: Curl up on the couch and watch TV, which morphed into Minute to Win it Game Night
Day 11: Dance and sing Christmas carols together
Day 10: Zoo Lights! Dancing Trees here we come!


Day 10: Zoo lights! Dancing Trees, here we come!









Leo pretending to be a dancing tree. Wil on the Merry Go Round









Wil really enjoyed his 3D glasses!







Day 1 was watching Rudolph on TV, but it turned into Minute to Win it Game Night











Glendale Glitters is a little town nearby that decorates their entire town with Christmas Lights. The boys had a BLAST running around like crazy maniacs in a field. Did they notice the lights, not sure. But they had fun!













We decorated Christmas cookies for Day 14, then on Day 13 we "jingled" our neighbors. If said neighbors are reading this, please ignore this part :-) We posted a message on our treats asking them to pay the favor forward by delivering treats to their neighbors. Then, Leo's favorite part, we knocked on their doors, left the treats in front, and ran!!!!

From Day 11, Dance and Sing Christmas Songs together. Leo is singing "Hey Duckbills" from his Dinosaur Night Before Christmas CD




Minute to Win it Game Night -I got the closest, so I posted my video. It was my partner's fault!


Hard to see, but this is Leo and Dad riding the Polar Slide at Zoo Lights
MORE TO COME! Merry Christmas!
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Timeline


January 8, 2007 Attend Adoption 101 Information Session in Mesa, AZ
January 22, 2006 - Apply for preapproval from our agencyand Taiwan
January 23, 2007 - Application for USCIS (I-600A) form submitted
January 28, 2007 - 1st Homestudy meeting
January 28, 2007 - Sign adoption contract with our agency
January 29, 2007 - Approved to adopt from Taiwan
February 1, 2007 - Clearance from state of Arizona
February 6, 2007- Maricopa application to adopt is filed
February 13, 2007 - Clearance from state of Michigan, Medical clearances, and Fingerprint invitation arrive from USCIS
February 24, 2007 - Fingerprinted for USCIS
March 11, 2007- Homestudy Complete and Court Certification from Maricopa County received
April 28, 2007 - Homestudy is translated into Mandarin
July 1, 2007 - Finally receive 171-H in the mail
July 6, 2007 - Get new case manager
July 22, 2007 - Sign adendum to contract
August 8, 2007 - Our lucky day! Referral for Lin Kai-Yi, born 6-3-06
August 8, 2007 - accept referral
August 13, 2007 - Sign Child Referral Agreement
August 23, 2007 - Paperwork arrives in Tucson
August 24, 2007 - Paperwork arrives to us
August 26, 2007 - Documents notorized (How many adults does it take to use a stamp?)
August 28, 2007 - Documents certified by AZ Sec. of State
August 29, 2007 Documents sent to TECO to be authenticated
September 4, 2007 - Documents arrive in Tucson from TECO
September 6, 2007 - Documents sent to Taiwan! YEAH!
September 10, 2007 - Update day! We receive 4 pics and a video!
October 2, 2007 - Receive word from TWCA that our hearing date is October 9, 2007 (this happened extreamly fast!)
October 9, 2007 - Keep your fingers crossed for a quick 1st ruling (even better yet, keep your fingers crossed for a final ruling!)
October 11, 2007 - October updates are here!
October 19, 2007 - Receive more pictures and videos from Ray's visit to Taiwan!
November 5, 2007 - November updates are here!
December 2, 2007 - December updates are here! Can't believe there has been no news all month!
December 13, 2007 - FINALLY! Word of our First Ruling! Yippeee! It happened on Dec. 13th in Taiwan (yesterday here)
January 4, 2008 - January updates
February 4, 2008 - February updates
February 28, 2008 - Leaving for Taipei!!!
February 29, 2008 - Arrive in Taipei!
March 4, 2008 - Gotcha Day! Can you even believe it!?!?!?
March 5, 2008 - FINAL RULING FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY! (by the way, our paperwork says the final ruling was issued December 24th!)
March 6, 2008 - First AIT appointment
March 7, 2008 - VISA DAY!
March 10, 2008 - Leave for home!
March 10, 2008 - Arrive home with our boy!!!!!!!!!!!
July 5, 2008 - Find out about Wil's arrival!
March 10, 2009 - Wil Shan-Yi Shaffer is born at 3:38 am 8 lbs. 4 oz. 20 inches long