LID!!!!!

LID
We were notified today by our agency that our dossier has been officially logged in by the CCAA as of today, April 25th.  Now onto to the next step, which is awaiting the CCAA to issue our LSC (letter seeking confirmation).  Which is where we will officially accept the referral of Carsen.  This step usually takes a couple of months, so hopefully we will have this by the middle of June.

Adoption Video with 'One Less'

DTC!!!

 Our dossier is headed out of the country!!! Finally after chasing this paper and that paper across the state, all the while chasing a notary, its all done and on its way.  The agency said it should arrive in China on Monday.

I800A Approval!

Our I800A application was approved on March 18th and we received it in the mail on the 24th.  Now its on its way to be authenticated and then back to the agency so we can be DTC (dossier to China).  The completion of our dossier is huge!  It entails a moutain of authenticated paperwork and that has taken us the past several months to compile. Then we will wait for our LID (log in date) and then the wait for the CCWA to issue our LSC (letter seeking confirmation) begins.  Slowly, but surely we are moving forward!  Stay tuned for more updates....

Really new pictures!

So it turns out the pictures we had received a couple of weeks ago were sent to us be accident, they were not actually our son.  Needless to say we now have received new pictures that are definately our child.

"Children Of God" - Official Music Video

It's a Boy!!

We have received PA from the People's Republic of China to adopt a 10 month old little boy.  His name is Shen Kai Zuo.  We got the call from our agency January 17, the night when the new shared list was released and she said she had a found a little guy we might be interested in.  She told us that he wasn't quite 10 months old yet and he has a congential heart defect.  We were shocked we got a call because this was the first she had been able to look for us since our homestudy was just completed.  We chedked out his files and talked to some doctors about his heart and prayed like crazy.  We submitted our LOI (letter of intent) on January 20 and waited what we thought was a really long 6 days and we received our PA on January 26.  Now the real wait begins, because it will be several months before we get our TA (travel approval) and then actually travel.  We have lots to do in the mean time.  Here's the pictures that we have so far, we hope we will be able to get updates along the way and we will post them as well.