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We got a very important call today from our adoption agency...we're officially waitlisted!  I never thought that word could mean something positive, but in the context of international adoption, it's music to our ears!

Since we are open to adopting either gender, and since we are open to adopting twins (or siblings who are both under the age of 12 months), we got put on 3 waitlists...

#60 on the girl list
#40 on the boy list
#33 on the sibling list

They estimate the wait time to be 9-10 months for a girl or 5-7 months for a boy.  They have no estimate to give us for the sibling list (and apparently twin orphans are not very common at all). 

Given those waitlist numbers and estimated wait times, it's certainly looking like we're going to get a little boy (but we're still open to either)!  It also means that we could be matched with our child and be making our first trip to Ethiopia as early as October!  If that happens, we'd have quite an exciting Christmas present to bring home from our second trip!

Since we're on all 3 waitlists, here's the way it will work:  each time a family gets matched with a child, our number moves closer.  If they are a family who was on multiple lists, then the numbers change on all of the lists they were on.  If they were only on the girl list, then our number only changes on the girl list.  Etc., etc.  

We will receive monthly updates from our agency on where we are on the list, so we'll keep everyone posted as we move closer to being matched with our child!

To try to compare this to a pregnancy:  if submitting the dossier was like finding out we were pregnant, then getting our waitlist numbers are like hearing the heartbeat for the first time.  We're SO pumped!!