thinking china

Most days I am good about waiting for our daughter. I think that this time around I am clearheaded and not ocd about the wait. Today my thoughts were in China. Just thinking about her and wondering what she did today and is going to do tomorrow. Did someone hug her today? Did someone make her smile? Did someone's heart skip a beat when they heard her talking? Did someone tell her that they love her today?

I can't wait to travel to China. I can't wait to do it all over again with just me and her. I can't wait to just have two weeks just her and me. Just playing and being a mother and daughter together. I can't wait to look at her face and see her see my face for the first time. I can't wait to hear her speak Chinese to me <3

OK I promise tomorrow I'll be patient and I'll bring myself back to the two kids that I have here now!

I love you SiYu.

Happy birthday our love

Happy birthday to our daughter - Taeya Claire it is our hope that wherever you are today that you are loved and cherished. Know child that this will be your last birthday without a forever family. Next year for your 7th birthday we will be the ones to love and cherish you!!!!

All our love Mama Baba gege and jiejie.

timeline chat

I received this message today from our agency. They are still making all the adjustments and translations necessary for our dossier to be complete. Hopefully it will go out this week or next?? This talks about our 'timeline'. It's not really saying anything different than we already knew. It still looks like I'll be there in late summer early fall... (but like I always say - i'm thinking hopeful for June!!!!)

Hi Brandi,

Your HS first has to be sent to USCIS with your I-800A. Once you have immigration approval and all of your dossier documents are in your dossier is sent to China. This is referred to as DTC.

So once we have a notarized HS we send the HS with your I-800A to USCIS. It is taking about 60 days for USCIS to process the paperwork and issue immigration approval. Once we have the immigration approval and it has been notarized along with your other documents your dossier is sent to China. Your dossier is usually logged in within a month of the time it is sent to China. We notify you of your log in date once we have it from China.

Sincerely,

Beth

First things first

OK so I'll start blogging so that when I do get to china for the second time I'll have a site all set

up for everyone to visit and get updates of Taeya Claire.

For right now there are no updates other than we are homestudy approved, all our paperwork is done and we are waiting.... waiting for a log in date (LID) when our dossier is actually logged into the china adoption authorities. Then we get a letter of acceptance (LOA). And wait for various other things - too many really for me to list here. I'll get more detailed as time goes on and more things come in.