Where has the time gone?
I am sure you are wondering if we dropped off the face of the earth! The answer is, no! We didn't :) I just have not used the computer in a while, and updating the blog from my phone proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated (I wrote three blog updates and each was erased! I finally gave up!).
Well, let's get to the "fun" stuff!! :)
The adoption is marching along steadily. However, we just found out, that simply is not good enough! From the time we were pre-approved until the time we submit our Dossier can be no longer than 6 months. I never thought in a million years it would take six months to complete everything...however, here we are in our FOURTH MONTH! So, it really is crunch time! I am working "fast and furiously" to get everything done for our dossier.
We have received some updated pictures of our girl, and OH MY GOODNESS, is she a sparkly little one! In her "old" pictures, she rarely smiled, but in these ones she is all grins! She has such a happy face that just lights up when she smiles. We cannot wait to bring that little ray of sunshine in to our home.
We also received some VIDEO of LongLong! She appears to be very affectionate and not very shy. We recognize that could be good OR bad, so we are ready and prepared to deal with the challenges that can come. However, it was so good to see her respond to physical touch! She really enjoyed being tickled and we got to hear her precious little laugh for the first time!!
In one of the videos, our girl marches herself to the piano in the room, climbs on to the piano bench, removes the piano cover, and starts plunking away on the keys. I am SO so so excited about this (as you can well imagine!). I can't wait to start teaching her Suzuki piano (of course, that won't be for a long while, but I can get excited, can't I?!) . I am so glad we have a piano in our home!!
So, in case you are still scratching your head wondering, "Okay, so WHEN does she come home?" here is the deal: we don't know for sure :) BUT...because of paperwork, etc. we MUST have everything done and be on a plane to go get her BY AUGUST 31!!!!!!!! I know, that is SO SOON! We had the goal of sometime in October to bring her home. To now realize it all has to be done and dusted before Sept. 1 is a HUGE stress! We surely appreciate prayers as we try and complete this faster than fast.
Thank you for your continued love and support! I promise to try and be better about updating here! All our love to all of you :)
