Red-Letter Week

It's been an amazing week in adoption-land.

• We sent off our dossier paperwork (minus the immigration approval) to CCAI for checks and preparation.
• We sent off two more grant applications for financial aid to hopefully close the money gap
•  We got an update and two new pictures of our baby girl.  She was standing, has teeth and a glowing white bowl cut. 
• We decided on her name (Fiona XueLan Dodge).
• We printed and sent off our family photos to join the dossier papers.
• Now, to top off the amazing week, we got our I-797 Approval!!!  

 This is a HUGE thing.  Nothing else could move forward until we got this approval.  This basically states that the US deems us acceptable to bring a foreign-born child into the country through adoption.

Now I need to put this paper through the same authentication process as the rest of our dossier (pray that goes fast) and our whole dossier will be ready to send to China.

Then: 2-4 months to Letter of Acceptance from China,
then 11-15 weeks until travel approval and travel.

BABY GIRL, WE'RE COMING!!!