DTC!

After months and months of paperwork, our dossier is finally on its way to China! All of our sealed documents, along with several family photos, are now bound in a pretty book with a summary translated to Chinese! I wish I could see what it looks like! :) We are about halfway through the process and it now looks like we will (hopefully!) be traveling to get Gia in October. This is a pretty big landmark, because this is now out of our hands and out of our agency's hands for the time being, and it's now time for China to do some homework! Next we will get our log-in date (LID), the date when the Chinese government gets our dossier, which will hopefully be next week. After that is a very long wait to get our Letter of Approval (LOA). It takes at least 30 days for our dossier to get translated to Chinese, and at least another 30 days for them to review our match and approve it. We already have our preliminary approval to adopt Gia, based on a one-page form we submitted with our Letter of Intent, so now that they have ALL our information, they will give us our final LOA, hopefully by the end of the summer! Our last summer as a family of five will hopefully fly by! :) I know I'm not supposed to wish my life away, but Gia has been waiting a very long time already!