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!!!