Trey Amos Shopping Spree

While on our little excursion to Bend, Oregon, we hit the outlet baby stores and just couldn't resist making a few purchases for our little superstar! Check out all these cute clothes for when Trey Amos comes home:




Auntie Chrissy got right in on the spoiling action, of course:




Honestly, this is the only time in life when you can get away with wearing articles of clothing that say things like:

And a little Michael Jordan action never hurt anyone!

Nice Surprise!

Jill, a friend and fellow adoptive mom, and her husband were just in Haiti for a couple of days to file some of their US immigration paperwork. As Canadians, we don't have to go down to Haiti to file, but the Americans do.

While she was there she came upon some pics of the babies including her own Samuel Chancelet, Cathleen's Anri Jacob, and our little Trey Amos.

Trey Amos and one of the wonderful GLA volunteers:

Loving life!!

What a little charmer!

Flying high:

Trey Amos is on the far right and his little buddy Anri Jacob (Cathleen's son) is in the middle:

A volunteer and all her babies! Trey Amos third from the left chewing on his toy:

Trey Amos and Samuel Chancelet chillin' out together:

What a great surprise to get all these neat photos. Thanks Jill! And thanks to the wonderful volunteers for everything you do for our little ones!

Adoption Agency Bankrupt

Before you panic...the bankruptcy of the Imagine Adoption Agency in Ontario does not affect our adoption of Trey Amos. We are doing this adoption independently, dealing with God's Littlest Angels, without the use of a "middle man" agency. We do have our local agency, Christian Adoption Services, who did our homestudy, etc, but they are not directly involved in our Haiti adoption process.

That said...we did have about 12, 000 dollars "in trust" with Imagine Adoption and had started paperwork for a second adoption which was going to be from Zambia. Around Christmas time Zambia closed, so we pulled our paperwork out and were in the process of transferring our paperwork to either Ghana or Ethiopia. Then we received our proposal from Haiti (our little man, Trey), and our Imagine adoption went on hold.

But now...they are bankrupt, and we have no idea if we will ever see that 12, 000 dollars again. Kind of a bummer to say the least. However, there are MANY Canadian families who were in the middle of adoptions! Not only did they lose thousands of dollars, they may have lost their hope for a child! It's really tragic. So yeah, it's been a heck of a week. We're in contact with a lot of Imagine Adoption families and are also in contact with the firm handling the bankruptcy. We're not sure how this is going to all resolve, but hopefully the families with waiting children will be able to bring their kids home, and hopefully we get our money back eventually!

On a happier note, here's a pic of little Trey at about five months, looking all patriotic with the Haitian flag.

Aww, I just can't wait till that hair grows back!