A CallaAnne Story~

Not long after we accepted CA's referral, we found out she was being sponsored by Grace & Hope for Children.

I had several friends reach out and suggest I follow them on FB so I did in hopes of seeing our baby.

Over the month of December they collected coats and delivered to children all over China.
They took photos and began sharing online.

I was diligent in checking for CA's orphanage and this past week, I saw her~

Smiling in a little red coat.

It is hard to explain how it feels to see a glimpse of our child...

kind of like seeing an ultrasound and wanting a photo to carry around.

SO very thankful to know she is well and warm.

Such a great surprise on the same day we would hear we are Logged In (LID)

on Jan 19 which was super quick!

Now we wait for LOA (Letter of Acceptance).

We will be there soon CallaAnne!!!

Dossier to China~

It is a stellar day when these 13 beautiful documents are handed off to our agency~

and word comes they are off to China... DTC (dossier to China)~

There is much work involved as these documents are compiled and keeping them organized is key so I wrote a post HERE to explain my process~

Go to A Beautiful Symphony: Adoption Paperwork Mountain to read more.
We are so thankful they are in China and now we wait for them to be Logged In and official wait begins for official word of LOA~ Letter of Acceptance!!!!!

Adoption Update~

We received our I800A approval (USCIS saying we are approved to adopt CA)

which was the last document needed for our dossier.

Today we walked all our documents into the GA Secretary of State in Atlanta

and had them authenticated then sent on to Houston for more authenticating.

When they return to us, I will overnight to our agency, Bay Area Adoption Services, 

and they will send to China making us DCT... Dossier to China~

Once it is China, we wait to be Logged In and wait once again for LOA~ Letter of Acceptance from China
saying YES, you can adopt CallaAnne!
We were happy to drop by to see Savannah and family. LOOK how tall EK is getting~

 It has rained SO much over the holidays and we have spent much time inside.
The easybake is seeing a lot of action~

Counting down to a new year and ready to ring it in!!!