Getting Closer to Completing our Home Study!

Ok... well this home study process is taking waaay looonger than I would like.  There have been some additional forms we have had to get. And we also had to get additional references, so it can't be helped.

I am hoping that this will be completed and sent to our placement agency THIS WEEK - then A Helping Hand will review it and granted there aren't any changes necessary they will send it on to USCIS and then we will begin the 2 - 3 month wait for approval from the US Government. They must give a family their approval before you are allowed to adopt internationally.  

Once we receive that approval we can then send our Dossier to China and get officially Logged In - and then the wait for their approval begins...  

We are currently waiting on Pre-Approval from China - which we are told sometimes they issue and sometimes they do not. I think we would like to get it though.  Just to let us know that we are on their radar, so to speak.  We sent in our Letter of Intent on 3/14/08.

In the spirit of our adoption & the fact that we are trying to "learn" some phrases in an effort to be able to communicate with Aric, I thought we should have a Mandarin Chinese Phrase for the Day so here is one for today- 

"I Love You" Wo Ai Ni - said like Whoa A Nee

Aric Wo Ai Ni -- we are going as fast as we can!!!!