Day 65 & Waiting

Everyone is wondering when we will be traveling to bring HiaYang home, well so are we. When we started this process we thought we would have been there and back by now. Due to new requirements and many changes in International Adoptions it is taking longer than originally thought. Today marks 65 day of waiting for our "letter of acceptance" or LOA. From what we have been told by those who are in process, or are slightly ahead of us, we could receive LOA as soon as 70 days or it may be as long as 90 days. The count began from the day our dossier was logged in at CCAA (Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs). Of course we are hoping for something a little closer to the 70-75 day range but there is no way to know. In addition we recently had to transfer to another agency and are not sure how excited they are about taking on new clients this late in the game.
So to answer the question, "When are you going to China?", we don't know for sure. Our hope is that we will receive LOA soon, once we receive that our guess is that we will travel somewhere around 6-10 weeks after, maybe July or August. All we can do is wait (I think wait a synonym for International Adoption) and hope we travel sooner rather than later. Thank you all for you care, concern and excitement as we wait and wait to bring our little girl home.

Big Sisters

I thought I should add a larger picture of Lucie & Tessie since they are the Big Sisters!

HaiYang

Here are a few pictures of HaiYang from this Winter and her 3rd Birthday. Notice she is looking at a photo album we sent her. Amazing cake isn't it?

Hmm trying to blog...

Ok, all you smarty pants out there with these fantastic blogs featuring your adorable kids at the top. I haven't figured out how to get my kids pics on or how to do anything at all but I am trying a test post for the heck of it. I am not a true "blogger" so don't expect anything particularly funny or witty. I have just created this blog so our family & friends can follow along on our adoption journey.