We Have Travel Approval!!!

I'm in shock and now offically in full panic mode because... WE HAVE TRAVEL APPROVAL (TA). Holy c-r-a-p... we could be travling as early as June 12. I never saw that one coming! I thought we wouldn't leave until at least June 19. We won't know our exact travel date until we have the date for the U.S. Consulate Appointment which we'll find out in the next couple of days. OMG! I've been waiting over 2.5 years for this and now I have less then 2.5 weeks and I'm just not ready. Yikes!!

Still Waiting...

I thought the waiting was over. Oh, how wrong could I be. We are still waiting for our Travel Approval (TA) and then our Consulate Appointment (CA). We can't make our travel plans until these items are done and they are completely out of our control. Other folks (with different adoption agencies) already have their TAs, CAs and their airline tickets. And here we wait. The wait is even harder now that we have Chloe's picture.

Tick-tock-tick-tock...

Referral Acceptance is on it's way

Well, we signed all of the referral acceptance papers and mailed them back to the adoption agency. We’ve also talked to a doctor at the UW that specializes in adoption medicine. She reviewed all of Chloe’s medical reports and told us that Chloe is a healthy little girl. In December at 5.5 months of age, Chloe was 17.16 pounds and 16.15 inches. This is wonderful news!

We still don’t know yet when we’ll travel to China. First we have to receive our Travel Approval (TA) from the Chinese government which will hopefully arrive by the first week of June.

We’d like to thank everyone for their emails and well wishes. Your friendship means the world to us!

Cheers!

Introducing Chloe Yu Yu

We received the call today, and we are on the way to becoming the very proud parents to a beautiful little girl. Her given name is Jin Yu Yu. (Jin is the surname.) She is currently just under 10 months old and is located in the Guangxi Province at the Guiping SWI (orphanage). We are beyond excited!! I will post more information as soon as we receive the offical paperwork from our adoption agency in a few days.

Cheers!

Change

Acknowledgement… Acceptance… Action… Gratitude...

May 2, 1997

Is it finally our turn?

We started the adoption process on September 1, 2005. On January 12, 2006 our paperwork was logged in China and we’ve now been (patiently?) waiting for twenty-eight months. Is our wait finally over?

We've been told that the “referral packages” from China are in the mail and on the way to the adoption agencies. A package should arrive at our agency in a few days and then we’ll know for sure if we’ve been matched with Chloe.

I hope it is finally our turn.