This week, I received a message back from our case worker that 4 of those are unavailable- either they are already in the process of being adopted or have been withdrawn from the system for some reason.
I was able to get a little bit more information about some of the remaining names from a national website (since we are now approved, I can go one level deeper). This new information has eliminated 2 more children as it was stated that they need to be the youngest or only child in the family (they are not younger than Naomi). The boy in one more case in only a month younger- so most likely would also not be a good match.
We briefly considered a group of three kids from Oregon, but were then informed that we could not work with both a private agency and the state. So we've made the decision to give Georgia some more time (around the end of October).
This will allow Jonathan to finish the school's he's attending, which will make it easier for him to travel for meetings with potential children. It will also allow us to attend a second adoption gathering in August and for a state-wide matching meeting of case workers to happen in September. (this is where the case workers get together and talk about the children and families that they have and see if they can match them with other case workers).
So we continue to wait to hear back from the case workers of the children still on our list and to see what other children may become available for adoption in the next few months.
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