If you want to see God laugh....

We just read a message online...our adoption agency is closing! Yep, the people who we hired to hold our hands just quit. What does this mean for us? We have no idea. Our agency has not let us know. I'm stalking the computer waiting for someone to let us know what in the world this means for us!

Where's Our Travel Approval?

I'm hoping our agency knows something we don't know. We're now being told we need to go ahead and fill out paperwork for our visas. Before, this wasn't a big deal; now it's being pushed to be done. (Don't worry, the OCD Smith's have already handled this.) Maybe this is because they know travel approval is on the way? I hope so. I'm now starting to get anxious because other agencies have already received travel approval for their families. We need to go get our baby girl!

Shoes

This is one reason why I will not be in flip flops during our stay in China:
http://www.renmenbi.com/split-pants-scene

Some Travel Approvals

I just read that some families with a LID of 3/14/06, and who received referral on the same day as us, have already received their travel approvals. This might (hopefully) mean ours is coming soon!?!?!

Here's how it works: Once Harrah's receives our travel approval letter, they fax a copy of these letters to the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China. The US Consulate is the one who actually sets up our official appointments which will decide when we'll leave.

Long story short, the sooner we receive travel approval, the better.

Happy Nine Month Birthday

Happy nine month birthday, sweet baby girl.

Still Nothing New

Nothing new for you guys, sorry. We're a little busy with "behind the scenes" stuff, but nothing new on Bella.

We've received some tour information from our agency and have been discussing how long we're going to tour Bejing. We've also sent our visa information to a courier and she's working on getting our visas together so we can enter Bejing. We're also discussing what vaccinations we're going to take before leaving the country. Because of my job I've had the majority of them but poor Brian hasn't.

I'm about to get started on the nursery. We've accumulated so many baby things over the past three years that it's a little overwhelming to tackle the room, but I'm up for the challenge. Gotta make the room fit for a princess!

We did hear back from our pediatrician and it they're not concerned at all about Bella's blood results. Yay!!!

Our letter is on the way....

We're not on the way to China, but at least our acceptance letter is. All the families letters were received today and they're being sent to the CCAA as I type. Once the acceptance letters are received by the CCAA, it typically takes an average of 4 weeks to hear about travel plans. Of course, we're hoping for sooner rather than later.