Milestones.

Dear Emily and Olivia,

Today we hit a "milestone" in adoption-land.  Today, all the paperwork that we've been putting together since the beginning of October was sent to China.  WOW.  One day i'll explain the detail of what all that means. In the land of adoption... we are officially DTC!! And for ME... this is HUGE!

I know you'll find this hard to believe because i'm certain God is going to grant me the "organization" gene before you get here, but Mommy has a long history of NOT being very organized (sorry to disappoint you).  I always have the best intentions but getting organized is was a battle for me. This paperwork stuff was something I HAD to do right.  You both were waiting for us, we were waiting for you... we had to hurry!

This is our final LONGGGG wait.  I don't know if it will be 60 or 120 days until we get our Letter of Approval (This is a letter from China saying we're pretty ok people and we can come get our daughters)  Of course we HOPE it'll be less than 60 but will be grateful for every day closer we can get!

At this point, in the big city of Snyder, you guys are celebrities.  Even on Facebook!  Your pictures have been shown all over town.  People are following our blog to see how close we are to you and are SO excited to meet you! It makes my heart melt when people ask about you and I can see the excitement in their eyes.  They have fallen in love with your sweet faces just like we have!

We spend lots of time contemplating what you will be like.  Grandma thinks Emily will be our girly girl and Olivia will be our tomboy.  I said today that we might be surprised! Daddy just wants one of you at least to want to go shooting! (Don't tell him but we'll go anyway and pretend to love it! Mommy is an expert at that!) :-)  I have to say, that amidst the excitement, is some fear.  We sure hope we can be the Mommy and Daddy that you deserve.  We will give it all we have! We promise!

Babies... we can NOT wait to get to know you.  To hug you, kiss you, love you!  Until then, we are praying for you and for your transition into team Taylor! We are SO excited!  We love you girls.... more than you could ever know! We can NOT wait to show you!

With all the love in our hearts,
Mommy & Daddy