New Pictures!

On January 15th a sweet woman who was travelling to pick up her own daughter from Dongguan was able to get these pictures for us. She looks so good! I can't wait to meet her!

Pre-Approval on December 23rd

On December 23rd we received Pre-approval which meant that we could send a package to Haylee. Ann at Red Thread was so wonderful and was able to obtain these pictures and updated measurements!

More Referral Pictures

About our baby!

Haylee Mei was born December 8, 2007. Her Chinese name is Qian Guihong. Xu says her name means wealth, precious or noble, and red. She currently resides in the Dongguan Children's Welfare Institute in Dongguan, Guangdong Province. We will be staying in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, for the entire two weeks we are in China. The US consulate is in Guangzhou so all adoptive parents must come there in order to complete their adoptions.

This is Haylee's referral picture it was taken in August of 2008 when she was about 9 months old.

Good News!

I decided long ago that I am NOT a blogger. Our lives are just not that interesting. I can barely come up with anything for our annual Christmas letter. But this process to adopt has been anything other than boring. And now we are so close to bringing Haylee Mei home we want to share it with everyone.

Today we received our LOA or Letter of Confirmation. This is basically a piece of paper saying that the authorities in China have agreed to let us adopt our baby. We received it much quicker than our social worker anticipated. She believes that we will be able to travel in 8 to 9 weeks. We are so excited!

Which brings me back to blogging. I wanted some way to share the excitement with our family and friends leading up to and during our journey to China. And so I suppose for the next couple months I will be a blogger if for no other reason than to share this wonderful experience.