Fingerprinting Appointment...

I had a hunch that we might get this very special piece/pieces of mail today...our invite to be fingerprinted. With our first adoption we were fingerprinted a total of 3 times twice in Nashville and once in Atlanta as they kept running out every 14 months...I am hopeful this will be a one time thing and hopefully they get good prints the first time...we are scheduled in Atlanta for the 3rd Thursday in August at 8 am....one more thing will be completed and then we wait for approval and at that point we can get our dossier authenticated and sent to China. That is when we really can start counting the days until Ladybug II comes home.

Flooding in Southern China...

Currently there is flooding in Southern China in Guangxi province where little Ladybug II resides. I will put 2 links to information and it appears currently the area of Guilin where Ladybug II resides has not been affected...at least I find no reports of that area being affected. Please keep the people of China in your prayers as you will see in these reports, many had to be relocated and some have perished. You can read the reports here and here.

Progress...

Well this adoption process has been very different than the one for Ellie Lu...first our lives are so busy I find myself up late a night trying to get the paperwork done. Next the process has changed since the Hague came into affect.

Finally yesterday I was able to send off our I-800a application all 9 pages of it with the fee and our supporting documentation....me oh my... now we wait for a fingerprinting appointment then approval. Some wait months and others I have heard jump thru this hurdle pretty quickly...I hope we are one of those...cross your fingers and say a prayer. Meanwhile other paperwork is being sent off to Nashville and Texas, Michigan and Kentucky to get state authenticated and then once that is all done we need to get authenticated in DC....I hope so much we can be DTC in September and then it would be 6- 8 months until travel.

Everyday our little Ladybug II is growing and changing and we just can't wait to hold her in our arms and look into her eyes and tell her how much she is loved....