Waiting 4 Baby Rock: May 2010

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Travel plans--finally!

We're flying into Beijing in early June...a few days and another flight later, we'll be with Emmaxia! We'll continue discovering China and completing official documents until our return home mid-June. Hey-if you'd like us to pick up something from China, give us a shout. I'm sure we can find room in our two 44# bags for three people for three weeks, including diapers and formula. I think we have 2.5 oz. to spare. Shall we start the bidding for the 2.5 oz. souvenir at $3800? (yea, just purchased tickets, ouch!)

Greetings, Guests!

We will use this blog to share news as we move one step closer to Baby Rock each day.

For those who need a bit of background...
We decided to adopt a baby from China in September/October of 2005. After completing mountains of paperwork, background checks, fingerprinting, etc. (collectively called the dossier), we were officially on China's waiting list on April 14th, 2006. This moment of acceptance is called the log-in date (LID). This date is quite significant because families are matched with children according to LID. If you follow referral dates (the date a waiting child is matched with a waiting family), you will be able to see how close we are to being matched--at least in theory. When we started the process three and a half years ago, China was matching month for month, meaning one month of LIDs were taking one month to match. Now, unfortunately, one month of LIDs is taking about four months or more. So...we wait...we vent...we cry...we breathe...we hope...we believe.

*To our family and friends-
A huge hug and thank you for sharing our frustration and our joy as we practice patience and faith, knowing Baby Rock is just over the horizon.

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