WE ARE CLOSER TO A REFERRAL!!!!!!!

Well, I didnt read my last post to know exactly what I told everyone about the changes in China. But we just had a post from our adoption agency in Colorado that they have made 36 matches for waiting parents in the last week, and THEY ARE ROUGHLY INTO JUNE OF 2007 for files with a medical conditions checklist date. We don't exactly know where that puts us, other than we have a checklist date of 06/03/07. If that is all confusing, sorry. But it is great news for us meaning that we may hear something from our agency anytime soon.

Through the new program, China will post files of children on a website that agencies can check on a daily basis, if they see a file that they have potential parents for they can lock in on those files for their families. Then the agency has 48 hours to notify the China adoption authorities that they have found a match for that file for China to take the file off the website permanently. The bad thing for us is that once our agency locks in a file for us, the 48 hour clock start ticking. This is a complex part that we have hopefully been prepared for. It is a rush for us to look at the file, have some doctors we have lined up look at the file, have the doctors give us their opinion about the medical conditions of the file, and then we have to let our agency know our decision, all within the 48 hour window.

Sorry, about the randomness of the post, we are excited, scared and always overwhelmed with our long wait. But our agency gave us a few details of the last batch of matches. Youngest match was 7 mos old. Oldest match was 6 yrs old. The most common range was 12-36 months old. Most common medical conditions included, Cleft lip and cleft palates, and some with congenital heart disease.

Well this is the newest of the information that we have so far. If we learn anything else we will post here.