Biometrics!

I am terribly sorry to say that our biometrics appointment was extremely anticlimactic.  We arrived 10 minutes early for our appointment, running into no traffic, and although it was in a pretty rough neighborhood, we also saw no panhandlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, or crimes in progress.  You see at least two of those just going to a Tigers game!  We went in and there were many normal humans working there.  It took four of them (wearing latex gloves and guns)  to get us through security metal detectors and xray machines.  Then we went into another room, showed a very nice human lady our appointment papers and passports, and filled out another paper with the exact same information that came on the appointment paper they mailed to us.  Then they took us separately into another room.  Brian was sure the body cavity searchers were back there, but nope, just very boring (human) lab techs with computers and scanners.  They took multiple prints of each finger multiple times and said, "That's it.  Have a nice day."  No blindfolds, no abductions, no truth serum, no torture, no Jack Bauer.

So now we wait.  All this paperwork and fingerprinting was to get approval of our I600A, a document that allows you to get a visa for the kids.  After we get the approval, there's more paperwork and waiting on the US government.  All our paperwork from the adoption agency is in Ethiopia right now being translated and prepared for court and we are waiting to hear from them that they've submitted it to court and are waiting for a court date.

I'm pretty happy right now because there's nothing else I can do.  Everything is in the hands of God, Homeland Security and the Ethiopian government.  It's a lot like the second trimester of pregnancy, where I wasn't panicking about miscarrying anymore and it was soon to worry about labor.  I'm just sort of hanging out and thinking about what colors to paint their rooms!