Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Monday, April 14, 2014
Update on Emily!
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Day 6
Why May 23? Well, we know that after LOA it's approximately 10 weeks from LOA to travel. That would put us at the beginning of August.
Why is the Beginning of August important? Well, Emily turns 2 on August 14th. We desperately want to be with her for her 2nd birthday. That and... any day closer we can get to our little girls is a day less they have to spend in an orphanage.
It's amazing... the closer we get... the more real it is becoming. Watching families come together through facebook and blogs is a beautiful thing. While it feels like FOREVER away, I look back at how far we've already come. That red thread is getting shorter and shorter. ;-)
Keep praying. Keep your fingers crossed.
With Love and Excitement,
Jenn & Rob
Friday, April 4, 2014
LID!!!!
Ok.... So here's where we are. Yesterday, April 4th, we are officially LID (logged in, in the china system)!!!!!!!
Next group of letters we are waiting on? LOA (letter of approval). This wait will be our last long leg. After that it'll be a zippy 10 weeks or so :-) the wait for LOA can be anywhere from 40-120 days. Of course we are hoping upon hope to be better than the average of 50-60 days.
Keep your fingers crossed and pray for speed. 😃
Our precious littles are waiting!
Still looks like august at this point. This wait will be key in determining that.
On a side note... All these creative ladies on Facebook make these fun pictures to announce they're "DTC, LID, LOA, ETC" I'm not that creative.... But today I made a humorous attempt at being creative... Though not successful. 😃
I TRIED to arrange the dogs into the letters LID...
HAHA. OH WELL.
Next group of letters we are waiting on? LOA (letter of approval). This wait will be our last long leg. After that it'll be a zippy 10 weeks or so :-) the wait for LOA can be anywhere from 40-120 days. Of course we are hoping upon hope to be better than the average of 50-60 days.
Keep your fingers crossed and pray for speed. 😃
Our precious littles are waiting!
Still looks like august at this point. This wait will be key in determining that.
On a side note... All these creative ladies on Facebook make these fun pictures to announce they're "DTC, LID, LOA, ETC" I'm not that creative.... But today I made a humorous attempt at being creative... Though not successful. 😃
I TRIED to arrange the dogs into the letters LID...
HAHA. OH WELL.
With love and hopefully more creativity next time!
Jenn
Monday, March 31, 2014
Sharing another's story...
It's pretty awesome to follow the stories of all these adoptive families that I've encountered on our adventure. Tonight I read the blog of a new Facebook/adoption world friend. She and her family are currently in China and just welcomed their daughter into their family a day or two ago.
Here is her story. It's def worth the read!
With love and hope,
Jenn
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Daddy's thoughts
Dear Emily and Olivia,
I have been thinking about what to write to you for quite a while, mostly trying to get my feelings together. Years from now, I hope you read this and get an idea of what was going through your daddy's head while he was waiting to take a trip across the world. Mommy and I are looking forward to seeing as many of the exciting sights as we can while we're there (like the Great Wall) and speaking in my broken Mandarin to the people there. Even though those things will be fun and interesting, we are really going for one reason: to bring you home.
I have been telling everyone who will listen about you two - showing the pictures and videos we have of you. They all tell me how cute you are and say other well-meaning things like, "What an undertaking. Those babies are lucky." I have heard that a lot from very nice people who wish us the best. One thing I haven't heard much is how blessed I am . . . blessed that God has entrusted your care to me. I believe that He places each one of us with a family. Most of us are placed with the parents we are born to, and some babies He places with another family. We all belong to Him though, and He is behind it all. I feel unworthy of that trust, but I am going to give it all I have!
I cannot imagine what your little lives have been like so far, though now I am sure you are being cared for by good people who are doing their best. I wonder how you are doing every day. Do you have anyone to play with or if you have ever heard, "I love you." Anyway, you will be hearing that A LOT very soon!
People say that adopted children are "chosen" by their parents. I feel like it is different for Mommy and me. When we saw each one of you, we talked and prayed about you and we knew their was no choice on our part. You two are OURS and you always have been. Now it is just a matter of bringing you home. I imagine you both will be scared at first with two people you don't know taking you far away from the only home you have known, but that will be the last time your world will be turned upside down.
We have waited a LONG time for you, you know. You were both Taylor-made for us!
I love you both so much,
Daddy
I have been thinking about what to write to you for quite a while, mostly trying to get my feelings together. Years from now, I hope you read this and get an idea of what was going through your daddy's head while he was waiting to take a trip across the world. Mommy and I are looking forward to seeing as many of the exciting sights as we can while we're there (like the Great Wall) and speaking in my broken Mandarin to the people there. Even though those things will be fun and interesting, we are really going for one reason: to bring you home.
I have been telling everyone who will listen about you two - showing the pictures and videos we have of you. They all tell me how cute you are and say other well-meaning things like, "What an undertaking. Those babies are lucky." I have heard that a lot from very nice people who wish us the best. One thing I haven't heard much is how blessed I am . . . blessed that God has entrusted your care to me. I believe that He places each one of us with a family. Most of us are placed with the parents we are born to, and some babies He places with another family. We all belong to Him though, and He is behind it all. I feel unworthy of that trust, but I am going to give it all I have!
I cannot imagine what your little lives have been like so far, though now I am sure you are being cared for by good people who are doing their best. I wonder how you are doing every day. Do you have anyone to play with or if you have ever heard, "I love you." Anyway, you will be hearing that A LOT very soon!
People say that adopted children are "chosen" by their parents. I feel like it is different for Mommy and me. When we saw each one of you, we talked and prayed about you and we knew their was no choice on our part. You two are OURS and you always have been. Now it is just a matter of bringing you home. I imagine you both will be scared at first with two people you don't know taking you far away from the only home you have known, but that will be the last time your world will be turned upside down.
We have waited a LONG time for you, you know. You were both Taylor-made for us!
I love you both so much,
Daddy
Friday, March 28, 2014
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 organizedis 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
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
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
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