Our agency has e-mailed us again with our Letter of Acceptance, and we received an overnight package from them containg the Letter for us to sign and send back to them. they also gave us a file of all the info that they had received from China about Emma in both Chinese and English. So we now have all the info for Emma that is available.
Our agency will hopefully receive our signed Letter on Monday and forward onto Beijing for us. We then wait again, for China to issue us Travel Acceptance to bring Emma home. We could actually be traveling to China anytime in the next 4-6 weeks.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
NEW UPDATES FROM CHINA!!!!!!!
Wow, we received an e-mail from our agency today with new pictures and some growth information from the 23rd of last week (we think). Eric was at home getting some lunch and checked the e-mails and saw one from one of the ladies at our agency. He printed out the info and pictures and hurried down to Elks rehab where Jenn was spending her day at work, and surprised her with the updated info and pictures.
We also received some Medical/Developement/ and Personality info as well:
She sat at the age of 6 months, got first tooth at the age of 8 months (8 teeth altogether), crawled at the age of 9 months, walked with adults holding her hands at the age of 12 months. She weighs approximately 19 lbs.
Personality:
Her personality is introverted (HMMM, Just like Jenn & Eric). She does not ask strangers to hold or hug her. She likes her bath.
Well we were totally surprised by the uodates, but are so glad to have it. We cant stop looking at her pictures and reading from the updates.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Our Emma Story
Well, we have known for about 9 days about Emma, But China has a policy that we could not tell anyone but family until we had what is known as Pre-Approval. "PA" means that the CCAA (China Centre of Adoption Affairs) has received our Letter of Intent (LOI) to adopt Emma and has moved of our file to their matching room.
So last Tuesday, Eric checked his messages and saw a 303 area code on his phone (which is Colorado, where our agency is located). The message said that they were "desperately needing to talk to us." He called back, and they said they had a referral for us, a little girl from Wuwei City, China in the Gansu Province. She just turned 12 months old on May 04. They wanted to know if we would like to look at her file?!?!?!? Of course Eric said yes!!!
He immediatley called Jenn at her work and told her of the news. We both decided that we would take the rest of the day off to rush home and view her pictures and files that were emailed to us. We knew alomst immediately that we would accept the referral for her and that she would have a forever family in Idaho.
She has been in foster care since she was 2 weeks old. The pictures below and all of the files we received about her are about 5-6 months old, but she was on tract for all of her milestones. We had a doctor look at her files and she said that from all the info we received that she was a healthy happy little girl.
We have obviously been waiting for Emma for a long time know, but have been anxiously waiting for the day when we could share her with the rest of our friends and family. And know we are waiting, again for the day when we can travel To Gansu Province in China and bring her back home to Nampa, Idaho. Hopefully within the next couple of months we will know more about Emma, her foster family, and when we will be able to go and bring her back home.
We ask that you will pray for, Emma, her foster family, and us as we wait to bring her home!!!
So last Tuesday, Eric checked his messages and saw a 303 area code on his phone (which is Colorado, where our agency is located). The message said that they were "desperately needing to talk to us." He called back, and they said they had a referral for us, a little girl from Wuwei City, China in the Gansu Province. She just turned 12 months old on May 04. They wanted to know if we would like to look at her file?!?!?!? Of course Eric said yes!!!
He immediatley called Jenn at her work and told her of the news. We both decided that we would take the rest of the day off to rush home and view her pictures and files that were emailed to us. We knew alomst immediately that we would accept the referral for her and that she would have a forever family in Idaho.
She has been in foster care since she was 2 weeks old. The pictures below and all of the files we received about her are about 5-6 months old, but she was on tract for all of her milestones. We had a doctor look at her files and she said that from all the info we received that she was a healthy happy little girl.
We have obviously been waiting for Emma for a long time know, but have been anxiously waiting for the day when we could share her with the rest of our friends and family. And know we are waiting, again for the day when we can travel To Gansu Province in China and bring her back home to Nampa, Idaho. Hopefully within the next couple of months we will know more about Emma, her foster family, and when we will be able to go and bring her back home.
We ask that you will pray for, Emma, her foster family, and us as we wait to bring her home!!!
MEET: EMMA GRACE CAN XIAO STEINER
HERE SHE IS
OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER
Emma is in WuWei City, Gansu Province China
Emma is 12 and a half months old, born on May 04, 2007
She is living in foster care.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Another Update!!!
We belong to a internet Adoption group that is a group of parents from our agency (CCAI) that are waiting for a SN Referral. Within this group (which is not representative of all the families waiting through our agency) we usually had 20 other parents waiting in front of us for a referral. The list has been updated lately and most recently today. It now shows that there are only 5 sets of parents waiting in front of us for a girl 0-30 mos old. WOOHOO!!!!!
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