He is ours and waiting in Ethiopia

Well it is official. As of November 24th Jonah Tyler Agegnehu Kneeshaw is ours!!!! YAY!!! We are super excited about having a baby boy in the family. However we had to leave him in Ethiopia to await our Embassy Date.

Many of you ask why we couldn't just bring him home. Here is why:

1. He needs a Birth Certificate to prove we are his parents. This is issued by Ethiopia. We are praying CWAE receives this soon.
2. Next he needs a passport...not a US one but an Ethiopian passport so he can leave Ethiopia and get into the US. This usually comes a couple days after his birth certificate.
3. He needs another physical and TB test.
4. All of the above documentation is submitted to the US Embassy in Ethiopia.
5. We get a date to appear in front of the US Embassy. Our agency has dates every other Tuesday.

We have found out that we will not have the next available date of Dec 28th. While we are bummed about this, we are a little relieved that we won't be away from Micah and Hannah on Christmas. Plus airline tickets are super expensive right now so waiting until January will save us some money.

Prayer Requests:

1. Jonah Tyler's birth certificate arrives at the CWAE offices soon.
2. Our US Embassy Date will be on Jan 11th (1/11/11=a cool date :))
3. Jonah Tyler will be safe and healthy while he waits for us to come get him.

Here are some pictures of our little guy. The first one is one of the first pictures we saw of him almost a year ago when he was six months old.


"Hurry up! I'm bored!"

He is excited about coming home soon.