Update

We got some great news today! We received our PA (pre-approval)! This doesn't really factor into the timeline but it means that Lillie Mei is "on hold" for us. We can now have contact with her through care packages. Her birthday is next Thursday, June 21st, and I'm hoping to send her a birthday cake. We'll also be sending pictures and probably a stuffed animal that she can get attached too and then bring with her when we go get her!

Also, our official DTC date is June 8th. It still looks like our best bet is travel in November.

DTC for real this time!

Our dossier will be mailed to China tomorrow, June 7th! Pray for a quick log-in date--that's when the countdown begins!!

DTC!!! (sort of)

Kirk and I celebrated our 14th anniversary today by mailing our dossier!

We are not DTC (dossier to China) yet but we are dossier to Charleston! We received our documents back from Washington this morning, copied everything, and it is now on its way to our agency in Charleston, SC. Each document now has at least 4 things on it that make it official--a notarization from a local notary, a document attached to it from the NC Secretary of State, a document from the US Dept. of State, and a document from the Chinese Embassy. I believe it is easier to give birth! Multiply all of those times 13 documents and you have our completed dossier.

I am not sure when our agency will send it off to China but I'm hoping by Friday. That is when we are officially DTC. Now we wait!