To bring everyone up to speed...

In May 2011, we decided we were ready to add to our family. Long story short, we were not able to find a social worker who was able to start with us at that time. We had to have a social worker to write our homestudy. Without a social worker, no adoption agency could work with us. Finally, about a month later, we found someone. However...we got a call about a month later and we were informed this agency was closing their adoption program. Fast forward to September 2011, we located another social worker and we got the ball rolling...or so we thought. Another long story short, in April 2012 we realized we were not any closer than we were when we signed with this social worker. We made the decision to try to locate yet another social worker. I'm very glad to say, we did! We were now able to sign with an international adoption agency and start "paperchasing". After six months of working on paperwork and having it notarized, certified and authenticated, we were able to Fed Ex two pounds (I had to weigh it before Fed Ex'ing it) of paperwork to CCAI. This was October 11th, and after a very thorough review by our agency, it was sent to the China Center of Welfare and Adoption on November 1st. We decided to tell family and friend's what we had done and we settled in for a nice long wait....or so we thought.

The future Big Sister is ready to Fed Ex two pounds of paperwork!