Another praise!! Today we found out we got our pre approval on our son Adam! We are just waiting for our homestudy update which we should have early next week, then we can get moving on immigrations so we can get the two boys moving in the same direction.
I can't wait to send him a package letting him know he has a forever family! And a brother from the same orphanage!
YAYAYAYAYAYY!
February 11, 2011
February 5, 2011
Happenings
The new 10 year old!) All she wanted was a one person cake, but she kindly shared with everyone after she had her first, second and third piece:)
The new 7 year old, yes the candle says 8 but it's all we had, I know sad right?!" Thankfully she didn't seem to care:) She just wanted to eat that icecream cake!
Nicole happened to be over with Aeris, the most amazing Grandbaby anyone would ever want...so we snapped an almost total Theis kid photo....just missing Jacob (and the son and daughter in laws)...Can't wait for the two boys to get here to be part of this picture!!February 3, 2011
Another Son!
Yes that is the title, Another son!
Way back when we first decided to adopt Titus, Vicki - the Mins mom, sent me pictures she had of our son with this other little boy. The other boy captured my heart but I knew hubby would never say yes to two boys at the same time, plus we weren't in a position to be able to do two dossiers etc. Sooooooo I put him in the back of my mind and told myself that if he ever became available through the Special Focus program within our time limit, I would ask hubby.
One day while reading my Yahoo group posts someone posted about a boy named "Chris" by a missionary. She was advocating for his adoption. When I went to the link to read about the boy, lo and behold it was the same boy in the picture with Ty.
I prayed, asked for more information and presented it to hubby. He didn't say anything for a couple days (just like with Ty) but once we talked about it he said he knew we needed to adopt him. He even went so far as to tell the Peds eye dr that no matter what was wrong with him we would proceed to adopt him!
Day two our agency tells us we will have to make two trips to China because we are past the immigrations phase and waiting for our Travel Approval for Ty. We still wanted to move forward despite the expense involved with two trips essentially back to back.
Day three our agency calls back and told us that they couldnt get it out of their minds that we would have to go twice, so they made some calls and decided they might be able to swing us going only once. So today I rushed around to do LOI, finance papers, application, social worker calls etc. Now we just need to wait to see if CCAA will send us LOA very fast so we can make it before Ty turns 14 in July. If they cannot we will be back to stage one, leaving sooner than later and making another trip for our second son.
This is all exciting but nerve wracking because we know our son Ty knows we are coming soon, we don't have PA yet so we can't send either him or our other possible son a letter telling them we are coming but a little later....ugh....
Please pray for us as we wait, submit more paperwork, wait, wait wait etc...
Way back when we first decided to adopt Titus, Vicki - the Mins mom, sent me pictures she had of our son with this other little boy. The other boy captured my heart but I knew hubby would never say yes to two boys at the same time, plus we weren't in a position to be able to do two dossiers etc. Sooooooo I put him in the back of my mind and told myself that if he ever became available through the Special Focus program within our time limit, I would ask hubby.
One day while reading my Yahoo group posts someone posted about a boy named "Chris" by a missionary. She was advocating for his adoption. When I went to the link to read about the boy, lo and behold it was the same boy in the picture with Ty.
I prayed, asked for more information and presented it to hubby. He didn't say anything for a couple days (just like with Ty) but once we talked about it he said he knew we needed to adopt him. He even went so far as to tell the Peds eye dr that no matter what was wrong with him we would proceed to adopt him!
Day two our agency tells us we will have to make two trips to China because we are past the immigrations phase and waiting for our Travel Approval for Ty. We still wanted to move forward despite the expense involved with two trips essentially back to back.
Day three our agency calls back and told us that they couldnt get it out of their minds that we would have to go twice, so they made some calls and decided they might be able to swing us going only once. So today I rushed around to do LOI, finance papers, application, social worker calls etc. Now we just need to wait to see if CCAA will send us LOA very fast so we can make it before Ty turns 14 in July. If they cannot we will be back to stage one, leaving sooner than later and making another trip for our second son.
This is all exciting but nerve wracking because we know our son Ty knows we are coming soon, we don't have PA yet so we can't send either him or our other possible son a letter telling them we are coming but a little later....ugh....
Please pray for us as we wait, submit more paperwork, wait, wait wait etc...
January 29, 2011
New Pictures!
Just got new pictures of our son through giftstochinawith love. My 13 yr old son laughed because they have both had short hair at the same time and now they both have longer hair. Maybe they really are twins separated at birth! Hopefully I can get the picture on here big enough to see, for whatever reason I can never print them:(
Maybe Monday will bring news of our Article 5:)
Isn't he just adorable!!?
January 19, 2011
NVC Letter finally!
Finally - boy I seem to start my posts saying that alot. You would think since this is our third adoption I would be use to the wait times....but no...they get worse:)
Anyhoo..I emailed the snot out of the NVC until they sent me the NVC letter via email. From the looks of it they probably didn't even send it out in the mail until today so my watching the mail would have been for nothing up until this point.
Our agency said they would make sure it was taken to the Embassy in Guangzhou tomorrow or Friday. I would love to think they will whip out our Article 5 before Chinese New Year, but I can't hold on to that since they say it's usually 2-2.5 weeks. But I can hope:)
We sent a package to our son for CNY so we hope to hear back..we have been blessed to get a letter and pictures through www.giftstochinawithlove.com everytime so far. So we hope we do again this time. This will be the last time we send anything since we hope to be traveling in March.
The sun is shining and it's my daughters bday today too! What a great day!
Anyhoo..I emailed the snot out of the NVC until they sent me the NVC letter via email. From the looks of it they probably didn't even send it out in the mail until today so my watching the mail would have been for nothing up until this point.
Our agency said they would make sure it was taken to the Embassy in Guangzhou tomorrow or Friday. I would love to think they will whip out our Article 5 before Chinese New Year, but I can't hold on to that since they say it's usually 2-2.5 weeks. But I can hope:)
We sent a package to our son for CNY so we hope to hear back..we have been blessed to get a letter and pictures through www.giftstochinawithlove.com everytime so far. So we hope we do again this time. This will be the last time we send anything since we hope to be traveling in March.
The sun is shining and it's my daughters bday today too! What a great day!
January 14, 2011
NVC letter
I know, what a let down, you thought I was going to say we have our NVC letter, but no. I did however find out that they are sending it out today so hopefully I will get it in the mail early next week. I am hoping to beat the CNY and maybe have the Embassy have mercy and give us Article 5 in less than two weeks. Not likely, but one can hope:) Have a great week!
We sent off a CNY gift and letter to our son so hopefully we will get pictures back this next week that I can share! Not much longer!!
We sent off a CNY gift and letter to our son so hopefully we will get pictures back this next week that I can share! Not much longer!!
January 10, 2011
I800 PA!
We received our I800 provisional approval today! It was delayed due to the holidays but at least it is here. We are still waiting for it to arrive at the NVC so we can get it cabled to China. Hopefully it will happen this week. Tick, tick goes the clock! I would love to get our Article five before the end of January in hopes that they can squeeze out our TA before CNY...not likely but one can hope:)
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