Adoption Update

Here is the promised update on our adoption from China. The Chinese government agency that manages all adoptions, the CCAA, announced this morning that they have completed adoptions for people registered with their office through June 28, 2005. We were registered June 30, 2005.

We will receive our referral next. We are finally next in line.

Timewise, we can expect our referral around the 3rd or 4th week of July. At that time, we will get a few pictures of our daughter, her birth date, a medical report, information on where she was found, information on her personality and daily routine, and the location of the orphange or foster home she is currently residing at. Travel to China is currently running at five to six weeks after referral, so we expect to travel to China in September.

I can't decide if I will be endlessly chatty on this blog due to excitement over the next month, or frozen in a stupor of disbelief. We shall see.

FYI, our plan at the moment is to make sure all of our family has seen our daughter's picture before we post it here on the blog, so don't dismay if it takes a few days after we receive our referral to get it up here.

I've put a little countdown ticker at the top of our blog to help everyone keep track of how close we are to getting our referral. I've based this on an estimate that we will get our referral on July 26. This is only an estimate. It could be a few days on either side of that. But it's a solid guess based on the pattern of the last few months.

Let the countdown begin.