Bringing Home Di Di: Chillin' in the new bean bag Santa brought

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Chillin' in the new bean bag Santa brought

Aren't those eyes beautiful?

This kid has the best pouty lip I've ever seen.

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Jolene PowellJanuary 2, 2010 at 3:30 PM
He and Tyson are so much alike! Very cute kids we have!
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Ellen and TomJanuary 2, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Love all the photos! The last one in this post of Max is awesome - he looks so grown-up!
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Our Adoption Timeline

So, you're wondering what it takes to adopt from China - Here's what we've been doing for the past two years.
October 2007 - We first seriously investigate adopting from China
November 2007 - We sign up with our first adoption agency
December 2008 - The paperchase begins
We gather passport photos and copies of our passports, photos of our family and home, a letter of petition to adopt, our birth certificates, our marriage certificate, medical reports from our physicians, letters from our employers, a financial declaration, local background checks, and 5 letters of reference
January of 2008 - We have our first homestudy
February 2008 - We file our paperwork with immigration
March 2008 - We get our immigration paperwork back and send everything off to the Secretary of State and then to the Chinese Consulate in Chicago to be certified and authenticated
April 2008 - Our finalized dossier is sent to our agency and then on 4/22 to China
May 8 2008 - We receive our first log in date (LID)
May 2008 - We finalize our decision to adopt from the waiting child program and get on our agency's list
July 2008 - Our agency loses access to the waiting child list from China
July 2008 - February 2009 - We wait
February 2009 - We make the decision to sign on with another agency and immediately are matched with our son. Februar 16, 2009 - We send a letter of intent (LOI) to adopt him.
February 23, 2009 - We receive pre-approval (PA) to adopt our son
Now we scramble to reassemble updated copies of the same information we assembled in December of 2008 and we update our homestudy.
March 2009 - We resend everything to get certified and authenticated.
March 21, 2009 - Our second completed dossier is sent to China and our original dossier is withdrawn
March 30, 2009 - Our LID (log in date)
April 14, 2009 - We find out our LID

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Chillin' in the new bean bag Santa brought

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