It's a girl!
We are happy to announce that we're "paper pregnant" -- we are adopting a baby girl from China!
God put adoption on our hearts a year ago after the tsunami in Southeast Asia. Shortly afterward, he put China on our hearts. Since then we've been researching, networking, and learning all we can. Over the holiday we met with our agency and began the formal application and document-gathering process known as the paperchase.
The whole process, from application to receiving a child, is taking approximately 12-14 months. We will probably learn who our new daughter is sometime around next Christmas or New Year's. Then we'll be traveling to China to bring her home about 4-8 weeks after that. We anticipate that she will be between 9 and 18 months when she comes home.
We are very excited to be moving forward with this since we've been planning it for a year now. We've already completed a bunch of paperwork, although there's even more to come. We got fingerprinted at the police station for the first of two fingerprint background checks.
The first date we're working toward is February 28 -- the deadline for all of our paperwork to be completed and compiled into a "dossier." This dossier will first be authenticated and approved by the US government, and then it will go to China for approval. Aside from the mountain of paperwork, the next big step will be starting our homestudy.
We would appreciate your prayers during this time, specifically for:
God put adoption on our hearts a year ago after the tsunami in Southeast Asia. Shortly afterward, he put China on our hearts. Since then we've been researching, networking, and learning all we can. Over the holiday we met with our agency and began the formal application and document-gathering process known as the paperchase.
The whole process, from application to receiving a child, is taking approximately 12-14 months. We will probably learn who our new daughter is sometime around next Christmas or New Year's. Then we'll be traveling to China to bring her home about 4-8 weeks after that. We anticipate that she will be between 9 and 18 months when she comes home.
We are very excited to be moving forward with this since we've been planning it for a year now. We've already completed a bunch of paperwork, although there's even more to come. We got fingerprinted at the police station for the first of two fingerprint background checks.
The first date we're working toward is February 28 -- the deadline for all of our paperwork to be completed and compiled into a "dossier." This dossier will first be authenticated and approved by the US government, and then it will go to China for approval. Aside from the mountain of paperwork, the next big step will be starting our homestudy.
We would appreciate your prayers during this time, specifically for:
- Health and safety of our daughter in China until we can go get her
- Speedy processing of our paperwork through the US and Chinese government agencies
- Finances for the adoption to come together
We will be using this blog to keep all of you up to date on our progress, and yes, we'll be better at keeping it updated! We hope you'll join us in prayer for this exciting adventure we've begun!
posted by Jess, Kristi & Bohdan | 9:25 PM
3 Comments:
Yay!!! At least if you were going to wait this long to blog, it was well worth the wait! We are so excited for you, that's fantastic news. Can't wait to meet the new addition, hopefully we'll be able to before we leave :)
That is cool you are adopting from China!!! I have always had a deep admiration for families that adopt children from other countries.
I think Duane would be a great middle name.
You're right -- Duane would be an excellent middle name for a GIRL! Not!
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