Update

We received a letter today from the National Visa Center (NVC) saying that they recently received our approval form I800. Our petition has been forwarded to the appropriate visa-issuing post where the adoption interview will take place.

Soon (and I pray very soon) they will issue an Article 5. We will receive an email from our agency when the Article 5 has been sent to CCAA (Beijing). Then we wait for CCAA to issue us our TA (Travel Approval).

We are getting so close! I think we should start packing. :-)

More updates soon.......

Ladybugs N Love

I just have to say a HUGE THANK YOU to Ladybugs N Love. They were so nice and kept checking and checking until we got the updates we requested. They even went over and beyond. We are very thankful to Angela & Ladybugs N Love. If you are reading this and waiting to bring your child home from China, I highly recommend hiring Ladybugs N Love to get updates on your child.

Thank you again Angela! We are so grateful!

New Photos!

I got a wonderful email yesterday with 2 handsome photos in it! I was so excited to open the email. Here he is. Our boy! He's so cute! I love his eyes! I can't wait to hold him and spoil him. Not too much longer, I hope, until we meet.
Enjoy the cute photos!

New Photo & More Fabric

Last week at my baby shower we received more fabric & good wishes from friends. We have a great collection of wonderful fabric. I'm so excited. The wishes are beautiful and I can not wait for Ethan to read them one day. Here is a photo of the fabric we received from the shower.


I have met 2 ladies on Ethan's orphanage yahoo group and one of them has received photos of her son. This morning I was sent this photo and in the background is Ethan. I was so happy to see this photo. I'm not sure when it was taken. But it is still a treasure. I have also emailed the company again about photos that I ordered and she said she called them again this past week and she's still waiting to hear from them. I hope and pray we get some good photos soon. Until then, I'm going to cherish this one. It's grainy, but it's still precious. Ethan is in the back against the wall. We think the other child in the front is his friend Max.


Praying about our travel. Pray that we will hear something soon and that the airline prices will come down A LOT!

Until next time.....

Celebrating Ethan!

Yesterday my friends from church threw me a wonderful baby shower. I was so amazed with all that they did for me, and for our son. So many friends showed up with wonderful gifts for him. We played games, ate cake and had good fellowship.

All of the guests got the opportunity to decorate a onesie for Ethan. They turned out amazing. Some are in the slideshow. I also received some fabric & good wishes for his quilt.

It was a GREAT afternoon. Thank you to Kris, Pam & Billie for all the time, energy and money that you put into celebrating our son! We appreciate it so much.

Enjoy the photos.....

I800 APPROVAL!

I was so happy to receive the mail yesterday. We got another notice from USCIS and this time it says that we are "provisional approval". We are so happy. After the big mess up, we found out that they received our papers Monday at 4 PM and they approved it on Tuesday. Praise God! I also found out a travel mate also received their approval a day before us. So we are not behind at all.

Now we wait for travel approval. We would LOVE to leave the first week of Dec. Then we would be home for Christmas and we would also be able to get cheaper tickets. Please continue to pray for our travel plans.

Also pray for Bill & I as we do prepare to leave the girls at home. We went to the airport last night to welcome home a new baby from China and it hit us both. We are not going to have an easy time leaving the girls. So please pray for us, and also pray for our girls that they will not be too sad while we're gone.

Thanks!

Quilt Fabric

I received more fabric & wishes this week. I'm so excited to see how much fabric we have collected. I've also been working on Ethan's Good Wish book and it's starting to fill up. I am enjoying reading the wishes & prayers to him. But we still have plenty of room. So please keep sending me the fabric & wish.
Thank you to my cousins Ricky, Linde & family and to my friend Pam H & family.
Until next time....

Nov 4

Today is a special day for us. 5 years ago today, we boarded the flight to China to adopt Abby. I can't believe it's been 5 years already. 4 years ago today, our dossier was sent to China to adopt Jadyn. Amazed it's been 4 years. Now here we are, Nov 4th and in another adoption. I had hoped maybe TA would come, but with the week we had last week that is unlikely.

We received a letter from USCIS saying that I filled out our I800 wrong. All of the information was correct. Except Bill should have filled it all out, not me. So we had to redo it and send it back. We had to send it USPS because it was going to a PO Box. It was supposed to be delivered last Thursday or Friday. It did not get delivered until Monday afternoon (4 PM). As you can imagine I'm very upset about this setback. I've been told that this should not delay us in getting TA. I don't see how it won't. BUT, I'm trusting in God. He has it all planned out. The trip is already in the works and we will go when He wants us to go. We will have Ethan in our arms shortly. It might not be December. But it could be. We just do not know. And the unknown is what is killing me.

So here we are, Nov 4th. What could happen today for us? I'm now praying that our I800 approval gets cabled to Guangzhou. That would be awesome if it did.

Please pray for my sanity. :-) Pray that I can get through this wait. Pray for Ethan as he waits for us. Thank You!