We finally have our travel plans. We will be flying into Beijing on April 3rd. Spending a few days touring the sights. Then traveling to Hohot, Inner Mongolia to get our girl on Sunday April 7th. Our Consulate Appointment is April 17th and we fly home on the 19th. I can't believe we finally have the dates after all this time.

Enjoy this new picture of our girl eating what looks like a "Rice Kristy Treat". We should get our Travel Approval any day then we make our travel plans to go get our girl.

Over Chinese New Year we have been very busy with all the celebrations with our local Chinese Cultural Center and the Lion Dance team. Below is a cute picture in our local paper of my son dancing at one of our celebrations on Feb. 9....

On a sadder note, received an email yesterday that our adoption agency will be closing on March 1. Yes, that is two weeks away and our Article 5 is to be picked up next week. What does this mean for us? Well, we are being transferred to another agency and being reassured everything will be smooth sailing. I, on the other hand have been drowning my fears in chocolate. We have also been told this will set us back by several weeks. I'm glad the strongest thing I drink is Diet Mt. Dew.

As of Jan.21 we received our I-800 approval and received our NVC letter today (Jan 29). YEAH!! It usually takes about 2 weeks to pick up our Article 5, however with Chinese New Year on Feb 10, our Article 5 will be picked up on Feb 20. Next we wait for Travel Approval. Hoping that comes about 2 weeks later.

Yesterday we received our LOA (letter of acceptance) which is huge. We waited 62 very long days to get this piece of paper from China. One step closer..finally... Hopefully we shall have our TA (travel approval) within 8 weeks or so.

We woke up this morning to the cutest picture and thought we would share....We haven't received our LID yet. Hopefully these next steps will not be too painfully long. Aubrey Grace was enjoying a fun outside activity when our friend visited. How precious is this smile.