Cain Family Adoption

january 28 marked solomon's sixth month home! after solomon's readoption heari january 29 included a court hearing to complete solomon's readoption! january 30 celebrates solomon's 2n...

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solomon has now officially been home  for SIX MONTHS! and we can barely begin to tell you about the transformation...so we'll mostly show you: october 2013 november 2013 al...

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Remember how we now have THREE boys? In case you thought we forgot the two big boys in all the Solomon-celebrating, here are Ethan (7) and Josiah's (3) birthday portraits for this September: ...

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This post has everything you want: loads of pictures bullet point updates a little boy home with his forever family This format may be because i finally heard your requests for "short and sw...

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It has officially been one week and two days since we landed on US soil with Solomon.  One week and two days as a family of FIVE...and, oh my goodness, the craziness!  The joy!  THE LAUNDRY!! ...

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 We made it. Our family of FIVE is HOME all together. GOD IS SO GOOD! The Cain Family of FIVE We'll give you a quick update on the past few days! Before we left for the airport i...

http://cainsadopt.blogspot.com/2013/07/home.html

Day 2 in Ghana started with waking up at 12:00am to a sick baby. Poor thing. Fever, throw up (all over the bed), restlessness....it was a long night. After begging Solomon to drink some pedialyte...

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today. today was the day that solomon woke up in an orphanage...and then left. he will never go back. he will always have a family.  he will never sleep alone again.  in fact, he's sle...

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We made it!!! Our flight arrived in Accra a little early and we made it through immigrations/customs without any issues. The trip here was looooong and tiiiiiring, but uneventful!  Thank you for...

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All our bags are packed. They are sitting by the front door. We leave Sacramento Tuesday afternoon and return on Sunday afternoon. #ghanaorbust We can check in four bags so there's one with ...

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That's right! After spending all day yesterday working with our diligent and tireless travel agent (we can shoot you her info 'cause she's fabulous and works with adoptive families/missions gro...

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Solomon's visa was approved this morning without incident.  This. Happened.  God fought for us. HE WINS!!!!! Please take a moment to pause and do a jig of praise. Happy screams are also a...

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Thing are coming together, people. PRAISE. GOD.  Solomon's visa medical results were picked up from the clinic this past Tuesday as planned so the team in Ghana now has everything they need to a...

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Woke up to great news this morning: our social worker was able to take Solomon to the medical clinic and have his exam completed!  This included an eye exam, physical examination (no X-ray was n...

http://cainsadopt.blogspot.com/2013/06/medical-exams-done.html

Lots of catch you all up on around here... God is answering prayers in amazing ways. As you know, we emailed the US Embassy in Accra asking for confirmation that they had received Solomon's vi...

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We are still holding tight over here.  No travel dates or plane tickets booked. Good things are happening: Vacation Bible School Week at our church; Completely reorganizing the boys' playroom...

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Just got off the phone with the National Visa Center...our file has officially been scanned and sent to the US Embassy in Accra!  WOOHOO! We emailed the Embassy to ask for a date our POA can p...

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It.  Came. IT CAME! Yesterday afternoon we checked the snail mail and there, in our mailbox, was the coveted letter from US Immigrations granting us Provisional Approval for Solomon's US visa!...

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Soooo...we were anticipating an email from our US immigration officer on Thursday or Friday to let us know if she did indeed complete and approve Solomon's visa.  No email.  And we were so sur...

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Adoption is wonderful and amazing and brings such joy and blessings! But it is also really hard. And sometimes is really stinks. This week has been one of those stinky times.  And we wanted ...

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Today is the last day of May. Back in the day when we first scheduled our court date for Solomon's Ghanaian adoption, we thought, "We'll have him home by the end of May!" Well...no.  That's no...

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Things are moving right along to bring Solomon home. We are still hopeful that June will be the magical month to welcome our third son home forever! This week we received confirmation that the U...

http://cainsadopt.blogspot.com/2013/05/may-update.html

Solomon is almost home.  Not yet.  But soon. As you may remember, we had court on March 12 and were waiting to receive the Adoption Order from court that proved the Judge's ruling in our favo...

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Today marks day 29 since we left Ghana and 22 business days since we had court when Solomon was legally declared our son! And no, we still do not have the Adoption Order from court in hand.  T...

http://cainsadopt.blogspot.com/2013/04/doing-what-we-canwhile-we-wait.html

It has officially been 25 days since we left Solomon in Ghana. Not that anyone's counting. Ok...we totally are. And we realize that when it comes to the waiting part of adoption, we are really...

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