No Referrals for Three Weeks :(

This week's update (from our adoption agency) was a bummer. For the third week in a row, there have been no referrals. :( We were hoping that we'd hear something, but no such luck. We're fine about it though, because we know it'll happen at the right time. And we're just being patient and using this chance to tell people and talk more to Ella about it. The past week we've spent a lot of time explaining that her little bother will be black. She's been pretty disillusioned about it, b/c she thinks her new baby brother should look like her, mommy or daddy. We're whipping out all the 4-year-old appropriate explanations of some pretty deep stuff - the concept of adoption, the concept of interracial adoption, and...well, we haven't gotten to the international/Ethiopian thing yet, bc her concept of geography is about as sophisticated as "I live in Tennessee...in the Ridges." She doesn't even know she lives in the US. And honestly, the geography lesson is a little less important than helping her understand we're still gonna love her even if she's not our only child and that some babies come from their mommy's tummy and some don't. Anyhoo...we've got plenty to do - from learning Amharic in our "spare time" to reading our cultural sensitivity manuals to continuing the dialogue with Ella to telling all our friends to getting a bunch of vaccinations and on and on. We're sure there will be more referals soon. The drought tends to be followed by a deluge, so it'll happen soon. The wait time for a boy referral is 6-9 months after being put on the list and we've already been on the list 6 1/2 months.