6-26-07 Initial Posting from Previous Site

Many friends and family have mentioned to me that they would like to keep up to date with the our adoption and I thought this would be the best way to do that. This will be our blog of sorts. Just simple updates of where we stand in the process or what we've been thinking.

We were officially on the waiting list (it's called Logged In) since 4/27/07 (that's our log in date (LID)). The means as of tomorrow we will be two months into the waiting process. That two months went pretty fast. They've told us that the wait until referral (when we find out who the baby is) will be 18-24 months. We're hoping for 18 which puts us at October 2008. As of our last newsletter, there were approximately 840 people on the list in front of us. We have joined a chat group with other China adoption parents that have LID's in April 2007. This has been fun since these are some of the families we will most likely travel with when the time comes.

As you probably know, 95% of the adoptions from China are girls. We have been told to expect between the ages of 6-12 months at the time of referral. We have tentatively named our little girl Isabel and plan to call her Izzy. The tentative part is based on the fact that 5% are boys, obviously we won't call him Isabel. I have started some reading, both fact and fiction on China's history and I have also started keeping a journal for the baby so she's knows that we were thinking about her and praying for her...probably before she was conceived.

We will be traveling to China in October for a trade show for Chris's business and are anxious to learn more about China but nervous about being so close to our little one and not even knowing her. Lots of families in the chat room talk about going to the Pacific Ocean and waving to their baby...we will be so much closer. I think I will be watching every pregnant woman that goes by wondering.

If you would like to join the prayer effort, our requests would be for the health of the birth mother and comfort in her upcoming decisions. Health of the baby, and also, patience for us, this is a long wait. Thanks for caring. Don't expect updates too often, I'll shoot for once a month around the 27th.