Friday, May 4, 2007
2-15-07 Paper chasing for our dossier
We receive our dossier packet from our agency in the mail. We need 12 photos, two of Scott and I, one of the girl's room, one of the front of the house, and photos of us as a family, doing action activities, no posed photos. We also need to write an application letter and request to adopt. We need employers letters and a financial letter.We also need to ask our friends, John and Kathy for a guardian letter. They happily agree. We are so thankful and blessed! The paper chase for the dossier begins! Lots more paper work but we are keeping the end goal in site, bringing our daughter home!
2-07-07 Fingerprint appointments
2-7-07
We have our fingerprints taken today in St. Paul at the immigration office. Jade Lin fit right in, there are many adorable Asian girls there and I was dreaming of our new daughter and wondering how big she would be and how old. I couldn't take my eyes off the little girls and had a huge smile on my face the whole time I was there. I kept thinking, will she look like that little girl, will she be as big as her? Will she be walking? Talking? Will she have that much hair? I made it through the fingerprints without day-dreaming too much;-) Scott's and my fingerprints both turned out well! Thank God!
We have our fingerprints taken today in St. Paul at the immigration office. Jade Lin fit right in, there are many adorable Asian girls there and I was dreaming of our new daughter and wondering how big she would be and how old. I couldn't take my eyes off the little girls and had a huge smile on my face the whole time I was there. I kept thinking, will she look like that little girl, will she be as big as her? Will she be walking? Talking? Will she have that much hair? I made it through the fingerprints without day-dreaming too much;-) Scott's and my fingerprints both turned out well! Thank God!
2-1-07, 2-2-07 Physicals for Scott and the boys
Scott and the boys have their physicals for the adoption and it will be the boy's 7th and 9th grade physicals for school. It is nice to kill two birds with one stone;-) We are all healthy and all tests came back normal, we are normal to adopt;-) Thank God!
1-31-07 Doctors physicals for our adoption
1-31-07
I have my doctor appointment today for our adoption. I tell my doctor how happy and excited we are to be adopting again and can't wait to have our new daughter home. He takes blood, checks my hearing, vision, weight, height and listens to my heart and lungs. I'm healthy to adopt! Thank God!!
I have my doctor appointment today for our adoption. I tell my doctor how happy and excited we are to be adopting again and can't wait to have our new daughter home. He takes blood, checks my hearing, vision, weight, height and listens to my heart and lungs. I'm healthy to adopt! Thank God!!
1-30-07 Our home study visit
Heather, our social worker came today for our home visit. She is really nice and we all liked her. Jade Lin talked to her the whole hour and a half she was here;-) Jade Lin is really excited about having a little sister! Heather tells us we will probably be DTC (Dossier To China) in May and we will be in group 100 which is made up of 12 families! That is the largest group that Crossroads has ever had and due to the new restrictions that China will be putting in place, May 1st, 2007. Group 100 may be split up into two groups when we go to the Province that our child comes from because we are such a large group, the children may come from two orphanages and we would all meet up in Guangzhou to get the babies visas. We tell Heather that we are praying to find our new daughter on Crossroads waiting list and not wait the 16-18 month referral wait for a healthy baby, we are praying for a toddler 2-3 years old. She tells us this would shorten our wait to 10-12 months! We ask her when the next waiting list should be here? She tells us some time in February. We are so excited, our new daughter may be on that list!
1-22-07 The paperchase begins!
1-22-07
We mailed our application fee and the check for our 1st agency fee. We have sent for our background checks, police clearance letters and our I-600A form to get approval to adopt internationally and to have our fingerprints taken for our immigration clearance. We are on our way!!;-);-) The paper chase begins for our home study!!!
We mailed our application fee and the check for our 1st agency fee. We have sent for our background checks, police clearance letters and our I-600A form to get approval to adopt internationally and to have our fingerprints taken for our immigration clearance. We are on our way!!;-);-) The paper chase begins for our home study!!!
Our adoption journey begins!
12-06-2006
After faxing in our application to adopt again through Crossroads Adoption Services, we received our approval letter from Heather, our social worker to adopt from China again! We are so excited and ecstatic to be adding to our family again and God has surely led us on this path. If you had asked us 6 months ago, or even three months ago if we would adopt again, we would have told you our family is complete but God and his little angel, Rebekkah have opened our eyes and hearts to adoption again and we are so thankful! We are praying to to find a little girl who is 2-3 years old on our agencies special needs waiting list so that Jade Lin and her new sister will be close in age and grow up close. We are so excited to see where God leads us in this journey!
After faxing in our application to adopt again through Crossroads Adoption Services, we received our approval letter from Heather, our social worker to adopt from China again! We are so excited and ecstatic to be adding to our family again and God has surely led us on this path. If you had asked us 6 months ago, or even three months ago if we would adopt again, we would have told you our family is complete but God and his little angel, Rebekkah have opened our eyes and hearts to adoption again and we are so thankful! We are praying to to find a little girl who is 2-3 years old on our agencies special needs waiting list so that Jade Lin and her new sister will be close in age and grow up close. We are so excited to see where God leads us in this journey!
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