Possible Court Date

We heard tonight that our Arizona attorneys are hopeful that we will have a court date before the end of this month! Please continue to pray for Kenna's adoption! This is both exciting and scary, a complete stranger can decide to keep our precious little girl. We know God is in control, but we are also human!!

3 Months Old

Kenna is a healthy 10.2 pounds! She is still our little peanut! She is sleeping through the night giving us between 10 - 12 hours! Wow! We didn't realize how much you can miss sleep!!

We have a little bit of new information. We just found out that once the Tribe rules, prayerfully in our favor, then the adoption can be final! The Tribe has the ability to finalize an adoption without going through the regular state courts! Please pray that our Judge will rule in Cynthia's favor (granting her petition to place her baby up for adoption.) It's hard to believe that once we have this court date, she could forever be ours!!

Daddy's first dance!

One Step Closer

A fourth attorney has been approved! Since the Apache Court will not call our ICWA lawyer back, he found a way around it and got a friend of a friend to co-council with him so he can get in.

Last week we were not sure the agency was going to approve this fourth attorney because the expenses are piling up. That is one way God was good to us in this. We had the choice to pay for lawyers ourselves and not pay the agency flat rate. We are so glad we payed their rate because the fees have far exceeded what we payed at this point. God is so good!

We are now waiting to hear when the Apache court date will be. Hopefully we will know this week! Check back for further updates and new pictures!

Two Month Check Up

(2 month check-up 4-22-08)

Kenna weighs 8 pounds 8 ounces & is 21 3/4 inches long! She is still our little peanut! She is not quite sleeping through the night, but she is giving us 6 hours straight most nights now. The doctor said she needs to be eating more than she is, so hopefully we can get her to eat more and sleep longer. She is a great little sleeper, but mommy and daddy are still tired all the time.

Kenna also has a great big sissy. Kayla loves having a sister. Her favorite part is to pick her up as you see from the picture. This was taken on Sat. April 19th. in our driveway. We were going to the Big Shanty Festival in Kennesaw!

Kenna's room...this only took us 5 days to complete! We still have a little bit to add, like pictures on the not polka-dotted wall. On the dot wall, we are going to paint Kenna's name in the pink stripe. We really love how it turned out!!

No News Yet

Kenna is a healthy 8 week old and is smiling and cooing all of the time! We are having so much fun having 2 little girls! Kayla is still an amazing big "sissy"! She loves to hold her and kiss on her!

As far as our ICWA case goes...we are still waiting. Our attorney has found another attorney that is able to present a case in the San Carlos Apache Court. So now we are just waiting to hear when the case can be heard.

We will post some pictures this week so you can see how much she has grown. She has her 2 month check up on Tuesday and I can't wait to see how much weight she has gained! but I'm not looking forward to her getting her shots!

Complicated Explained

OK, so we had our conference call with the lawyers and got the explanation we needed (notice I did not say wanted). We did not get terrible news, we basically got an explanation of what the different options are in the ICWA hearing. As with any adoption there is a risk.

The case is complicated because Cynthia (birth mom) is a N. Cheyenne member but lives on an Apache reservation. The Cheyenne historically are hard to deal with concerning adoption, they want to keep their babies in the tribe. Apache's are historically easy to work with. The lawyer is working on getting the case heard in the Apache court and not involve the Cheyenne. The birth mom is on our side, and hopefully that will matter a lot to the court. We know Kenna is going to end up wherever she needs to be, we just keep praying that is with us.

If you read the March 18 post you will notice that some of it does not make sense. Katrina entered this one while on medicine for strep throat, flu and nausea. It made her say and see strange things.

Complicated Case?

Well we got a voice mail today from our GA attny that said she spent and hour and a half on the phone with the ICWA attny and that we need to have a conference call on Tues to explain to us what is going on. She said our case is a very complicated case but failed to tell us if that is bad or just more paper. Please keep on praying for Kenna and of course the rest of us. We are definitely trusting God, but can't help but to feel a little nervous. Obviously no case is too complicated for Him!