We have already reviewed the rough draft of her report and it is on the way to the China team for their approval. After that, it will get sent to the head of our adoption agency for approval and then it will be done! Then we can send it to US Immigration for immigration approval and then all of the paperwork gets sent to the agency to send to China! It seems like we have some good momentum going for us right now and we're praying that continues because it could still be months. This is the part where we have to exercise a lot of patience while paperwork gets approved and sent back to us.
All we're really waiting for at this point is the home study and Immigration approval though. My birthday is on the 21st, so it can really be anytime after I am 30 years old. Obviously, the sooner the better though! We're anxious to find out more about the child that God wants to add to our family!
On that note, we did officially state that we would like a girl between 0-2 years old. Our social worker and agency strongly encouraged keeping birth order whenever possible and they have been seeing kids as young as 9 months old recently (we had previously heard 18 months), with a somewhat shorter turnaround time after you submit all of the paperwork (possibly 3-6 months for a girl where we had previously heard 6-9 months). We prayed a lot about it because we would absolutely love a boy. However, we really feel like a girl would be a good balance to our family and busy, busy boys! And we were able to research and decide on which possible special needs that we would be willing to take on as well.
So, lots of exciting stuff is done, and now we wait! Thank you all for all of your support and prayers! Keep them coming!
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