fingerprints times two

We've spent the last two days in Indianapolis with Kevin's family. Kevin's a smart guy, and made reservations on Priceline.com for a four star hotel, and we scored rooms at the Hyatt for a fraction of what I'd expect it to cost. Way to go, Kev! We shopped at Circle Center (Mommy found Hello Kitty baby clothes at H&M!) and had dinner at P.F. Chang's last night. This morning we woke up at 6am to be prepared for an 8am INFOPASS appointment at the USCIS office. We had gotten a letter assigning us a fingerprint appointment for Friday, but I had to work Friday and can't switch. We hoped that they'd allow us to be fingerprinted without too much trouble.

I had written immigration a letter explaining that we couldn't come at the time of our scheduled appointment, and requested that we be fingerprinted at the time of our INFOPASS appointment. I had sent the photo of Hannah Claire with my request to USCIS as a cute extra encouragement to allow us to be fingerprinted at this time. If they didn't want to fingerprint us today, the backup plan was for Mommy to start crying over cute baby photos. Luckily no tears were needed, we got in for fingerprinting without a hitch, and we turned in our request for the free renewal of our I171-H along with our updated homestudy.

The funny story about the experience came when Kevin was getting fingerprinted. The woman looked at his application, and looked at him, and said that there was one problem with the information we filled out. She said that his hair was checked brown, when it was really GRAY and brown, and that she'd have to check both boxes to describe his hair color. Apparently the last 18 months of waiting for Hannah Claire have turned Daddy's hair GRAY and brown instead of just brown. I laughed and laughed! Kevin says that the story gets better each time I tell it, but maybe he just gets grumpier each time I tell it. We won't comment on Mommy's current hair color. Only her hairdresser knows those secrets.