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The Fedex envelope showed up today with 2 more pics of our beautiful son. I don’t think he was altogether happy about being sat outdoors with someone pointing a camera at him for these:

We have a son! After a long, long road here’s Alexander (“Alexei”) Darren Xiao van Slimming:

More later. Crying and celebration now.

Alexei was born on 9/2/09, and is currently in Fuzhou City SWI, Jiangxi. Other than a 2am feeding he’s apparently sleeping through the night, and waking up at 6am. He likes rice porridge, steamed eggs, and “meat cake” soup, so he’s apparently a Bill Cosby George Carlin fan.

That’s how long we’ve been waiting to hear the first word of our child, the first real, tangible step on the journey of a life time.

I’ve been awake since 5am and am somewhat surprised I was able to sleep at all.

Ring, damn you, ring!

BB,

Janice

BB,

Janice

Word is that we should be getting The Call and The E-Mail tomorrow…

/freakingthehellout

Rumor Queen reports one of the US agencies believes that matching has begun for the next batch. Frequently this means referrals are coming soon.

A European agency says the 26th is in which, if true, means… drum roll please, WE ARE NEXT!!!!

I’m not sure whether to hold my breath or not get my hopes up. This roll-coaster has largely sucked so it’s a bit hard to get really excited yet. When I see the official “We’re getting the next batch” on our agency’s page, maybe I’ll get really get excited.

We hope to both be home so we can get “The Call” together. I’ve warned work I may need to take a day off next week or the one after for that purpose….

OK, yes, I am getting a little excited.

Will keep y’all updated as we know more.

Blessings,

Janice

Very, very good chance we actually get to see our daughter’s face next month! The May referrals are out and seem to be through April 21st LIDs! (Reminder: our log in date is April 25th.)

At the risk of jinxing things: NEXT!

Stay tuned!

Blessings,

Janice

So our agency posted that the next batch of referrals is in the air and will probably hit the States Monday.

The latest rumors have this batch going through 4-11-06 (reminder: our LID is 4-25-06.) If that is the case, we are about on target for a May or June referral! So I am tentatively stepping back onto the adoption roller coaster and hoping for the best. Right now that mostly consists of reading way too much Rumor Queen and a new stack of adoption books on the bed stand. And worrying that something else will come up. *sigh*

It has not, in fact translated into actually doing anything about the baby’s room yet. *major sigh*

Despite being (still) unemployed, I seem to have no time to do things. Besides looking for work, I volunteered for a bunch of SCA stuff and have been out everyday with with Joseph the Skull Crusher (long story, maybe I’ll tell ya later.)

Also, my husband bought a Wii. This is a Very Bad Thing.

This being out of work stuff has seriously killed my time-management skills. As well as brain cells. Seriously, if I don’t get back to work soon I am fixin’ to regress to a 3rd grade level. LOL!

Anyway, hoping very much to hear some good news on the job front here soon (seriously, this has been the longest hiring process ever!) So stay tuned.

In other good news (knock on wood) my aunt may be getting a new trailer in a process that has been going on nearly as long as we have been waiting for Lorelei. This will be a Very Good Thing so hoping it goes through soon! More details after it has gone through and I’m not worried so much about jinxing it.

BB,

Janice

So kudos once again to USCIS. Our application was recieved by the unit that handles Hague cases on Dec 11th. We had our fingerprinting appointments on Jan 13th and 15th (for some reason Darren and I got different appointment dates) and just recieved the approval today.

Not bad for government work.

Cheers,

Janice