From June
Well we have gotten over another hurdle in the adoption process. We've had our first and second home study visits with the social worker who will be writing our home study report. She seems to have a very positive attitude about our adoption and we are feeling pretty good about that. So now we have a few more documents to gather and send to our dossier consultant and then we just need to wait for our home study report to be finalized. Then we get to start having some real fun as we will be working with the federal government (immigration and FBI) for fingerprinting and an application for approval of an international adoption. Ah, I can hardly wait. Hopefully we won't have any hiccups along the way. While we are waiting I am still working on figuring out what we will need for baby, what to do with her room and that sort of thing. We are also trying to learn some Chinese (for while we are there) and a bit about China (culture and history).

From May
We FINALLY got our background check back from the FBI so now we can get started with our homestudy. Of course since JR is going to be out of town for two weeks we're going to be keeping our social worker on her toes trying to schedule around his trip. We'll be working on completing our homestudy for the next few weeks as well as collecting all of the documentation that is required (birth certificates, marriage liscense etc).

To answer the name question that we got after the last email. We haven't chosen a name for our daughter yet. We want to keep her Chinese name as her middle name and she will also have my last name as well as JR's last name. We plan on giving her an American first name-(we are taking suggestions). We won't make a final decision about her first name until we know her Chinese name.

About two weeks ago we were also excited to find out that our daughter will have a cousing close in age. Luke and Morgan are expecting. It is really an exciting time for us (becoming an Aunt and Uncle and Parents in the same 12 month period!) .

So it is the middle of the night and I am wide awake so I thought I would update this. We are officially DTC as of last Friday. JR has been going around telling people that we are now officially pregnant but it confuses some people for a moment. We got a copy of our dossier in the mail last Saturday and found out that the wait has greatly increased since we started this process. We are now looking at 14 months from our log-in date (The day they log our dossier in in China--basically the day our papers get in line). So we will be waiting and waiting and waiting for the next year plus a bit. It seems like such a long time right now and we can't even plan any vacation for 2007 because JR might need his vacation days to go to China to pick up baby. Well, that's about it for now. I thinking about Luke and Morgan and how close they are to being parents--just another week or so. Good Luck you two, hope everything goes smoothly.