Ok here is a pic Of Our Emma YunWen

This is her. The shirt is one we sent over in a care package in September. We waited to post pics until now just so the process would be further along. Hopefully we will be in China with Yun Wen in Jan.

More Good News!

We got home from Christmas at Deanna's parents and had a great surprise. A notice form National Visa Center that all of Yun Wen's paperwork has been approved and cabled to China. Now we just wait for our Travel Approval. Hopefully soon and we get home before CNY!.

Christmas was great. Sadie had an absolute blast being at Mimi and Papaws house. There was lots of snow on the trip up but clear roads so when we stopped at rest areas for a break Sadie had to play in the snow!. Will post pics when we get rested from the trip!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I800 Approved

We heard from CIS this past week that our I800 application has been approved. Now it will all get transmitted to the US Consulate in China, processed with our DS230 form and forwarded to the CCAA. Hopefully 4-6 weeks form now we will be getting our travel approval and booking flights to China! We have our Chinese Visa's so ready to go from that aspect now just gotta get word! We wish everyone who may happen to stumble across our little blog a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We have our LOA from China

Well folks the last of the major steps on the part of China is done. We got our LOA )Letter of Acceptance)today at Day 57 from our log in date. So once we get the official paperwork from our agency who fed exed it today we will fill out and send back. Next step is just get the I800 immigration approval from US government and get our travel dates. Based on timeframes at the moment looks like Late Jan. to mid Feb travel. That means we will be in China at Chinese New Year. Busy crazy time but will be way cool.

Day46

Just wanted to post , day 46 since we had our log in date for adopting YunWen. Some folks have received their LOA's around 45 days,, maybe we will here something soon. I hope we can get it soon and everything else moves quickly. We would love to have her home by Feb at the latest. Waiting stinks , it is tough and frustrating but part of the process. Just been bummed and wanting the good news to come through.

Emma Yun Wen

Yes , decided to at least leak out this much information. Our daughter we waiting for from China is named Yun Wen. We have decided once we get back and go through the re-adoption process and all of that her name will be Emma YunWen. We will give her the choice as to what she wants to go by. Figured that at 12 she has been called YunWen her entire life and that is an important part of who she is so it should remain her name. However we also wanted to give her a name of our choosing and Emma was what we decided on after much much discussion. At one point we threw Josie out there just for the heck of it. Sadie latched on to that one so quick it wasn't even funny. Took forever to convince her that big sisters name was Emma YunWen. Well Pictures will come once we have the LOA, I promise.

Day 40

Well today makes day 40 that our dossier has been logged in in China. Not really much to report as far as that goes. Good news is a few folks from our agency have gotten their LOA's in 40-50 days so maybe fingers crossed, we will be getting that announcement soon. From there we have to process our I800 and wait to hear back for travel approval. That process seems to run anywhere from 5-12 weeks. That being said looks like we may go sometime late Jan. to late Feb. Who knows. The waiting is tough and no fun at all. But it is something you have to go through as part of the process. I will post more once we get that LOA folks.

Update from China!

Well we have been logged in a couple of weeks and all is going along smoothly, hope it stays that way. On the update from , we got an email where our daughter in China answered a bunch of our questions and we got 6 new photos that are about a week old. In the pics she is wearing an outfit we sent over to her in a care package. We still are not posting pics yet online or giving out any info as we just want to keep it with the family. Once we get an LOA we may post more so we hope you understand. But it continues to be an exciting time for our family and thanks for all of the support.

News news news!

We I have not had a chance to update as Sadie has been down with the flu, she is better now just staying home one more day with her to be safe.

Anyway we officially have our Log in Date in China and now just wait for the process to continue!

Still waiting.....

Well we are in that period of just hanging out and waiting and waiting some more. Our dossier has been complete and it has been sent to China and is the the translation stage with CCAA. From what we have been told we probably won't here much over the next month or so as it all just has to go through the process. That is a part of it.

On the homefront looks like Sadie may have H1n1. Nephew had it and shook it and she was around him before he came down with it. Hopefully it will be mild and we can get through it. Other than that business as usual in the Peacock household.

The Thanh Hoa Girls get together!

A couple of weeks ago we got together with the other two families who traveled to Vietnam with us back in late 07. We try and get together once or twice a year for the girls to play and just stay in contact. Really cool connection for all three, all born a couple of weeks apart, all at the same orphanage and all adopted at the same time by families who were over there together. It is a nice link for Sadie to have with her birth country and all three girls have had a blast the times we get together. Good families, great kids and a wonderful bond. Anyway pic is of the three at the get together, Sadie is on the right with the green shirt.

DTC/ Dossier to China!

Wee we got word officially from our agency that we are DTC/ dossier to China. All of our paperwork made it through the channels at the US State Dept. and the Chinese Embassy and got all of the necessary stamps and signatures and was sent back to our agency. Our caseworker at the agency got it all sorted made sure it was all in order and sent it off to China via FedEx today!. So one more step down to get our daughter. She will be 12 in October, we know we won't be able to go there that soon but we hope to go early next year!. More posts as we know!

Our China Timeline

Well we started this process in depth early this year. Once we saw our soon to be child on a list through an agency it changed things drastically buta ll involved have been great in getting us this far.

Feb.2009
Start the adoption process, apply with a local agency start pre paperwork

March 2009
Start homestudy process and begin education requirements for a Hague Country adoption. In this case Mexico.

April2009
Continue with homestudy and education, get all of the necessary paperwork together for CIS applications

May 2009
Homestudy is complete Class part of education done, still have some on our own reading to do.

June 2009
Early June apply to CIS for I800A, get receiving notice and fingerprint appointment about a week later

Late June Find child on another agency waiting child list in China. After much thought we decide we want her to be apart of our family and initiate work with this agency and our original agency to amend homestudy and get process started.

July 2009
July 1st is fingerprint appointment
Mid July get notice from CIS for more info( I forgot to but birth Certificate copies in packet! DOH) Got our I800A approval later in the month based on amended homestudy for China adoption.
Late July get our pre approval from CCAA in China to proceed with adoption.

August 2009
Early August dossier is complete and on its way!
We sent a care package to our future daughter in China with goodies for her, her foster parents and foster brothers and sisters.

More as we progress!

Short Update

Dossier is complete, all is notarized and it was neatly packed up and sent to our agency today for the final steps at the Chinese Embassy before sending to China. Looking down the home stretch here. Hopefully it won't take a long time. More psots when we know more.

Approval

We just got our I797C in the mail today. This is our approval to proceed with the adoption of our soon to be daughter from China. It is what you get after sending in fees and paperwork for an I800A. So the journey continues. Hope to have our dossier in the mail by mid to late next week as most of it is done minus one form I am getting Monday!.
More later

Picture time

Ok, not pics of our daughter in waiting, those will have to wait, keeping that private. But some pics of Ms Sadie. She is becoming a mess, but all in a good way!

From top down
Yes it is a SadieBug
I love chocolate
Alot
I have mommies boxers on hahahaha

Big Big Change of Plans!!!!!

Ok we started this process of a second adoption oh Feb. of this year I think. We had decided on Mexico as we had a fondness for the country( I lived there in 1990). The main reason was Vietnam is now closed so not an option and waits in other Asian countries were to long. Why Asian, not for the trend reasons at all, instead Sadie is from an Asian country and we fely having a sibling who had that in common could be a good thing. However diversity was not an issue either for us with a different region.

Anyway we had been on some waiting children lists and on one of them a girl from China who was an older child caught our attention. We inquired and then off on a whirlwind adventure where we changed countries, dealt with the issues of going on with that and moving forward. This was not done on a whim. We talked to doctors, other parents of older adoptive children, friends in the adoption business etc. In the end we decided this child was meant to be a part of our family. She is a healthy child and I really do not ant to give many details at the moment as I just want to keep it a family thing and will post more the closer we get. I will just say she is female if you have not figured that out yet and she is older than 7.

Where do we stand? We are pre approved from the CCAA in China to adopt this child. We have our homestudy complete and all of our dossier except a couple of things. One is the I800A and I just received word today it is approved and we should have official paperwork sometime next week. As we get closer I will leak out more details but for now I will just say she is in Guangzhou and we hope to have her as a member of our family lat ethis year or early next. Stay tuned for updates!

Just a couple of more recent pics of MS SADIE. Top pic is Sadie and Dee on her b-day opening presents. Bottom pic is ust a fashion shot!

The joureny continues and HOMESTUDY IS DONE!!!!!!

Well, it has been oh 4 or 5 months since we started our second adoption. Sadie is almost 2 and half growing like crazy and talking alot. Sometimes I wonder maybe too much!LOL We took a vacatio over Easter to Nags Hed on the Outer Banks of NC and while the weather sucked we did have a good time. Sadie has decided she likes boats and boat docks and was up every morning at 630 or 7 waking us up saying,, We gonna go see boat! We went on a couple of bots including the Elizabeth II replica sailing ship and she had a blast. It rained and was cold but good food took in some great sights and it was relaxing most importantly.

On the second adoption we were very lucky. The wonderful social worker who did our first home study is our social worker for this adoption so the home study process was very comfortable and went very smooth as we were all familiar with each other. We got the official hometudy from our agency in the mail a few days ago and will be starting our I800 paperowork probably this weekend. All is really up in the air as far a adoptions in Mexico due to teh swine flu outbreak mostly but next year, when we expect is closer to when we know more hard information that should be well behind everyone(we hope.) Delays an dissue ssuch as this are to be expected. During the process with Sadie we were delyed a few times, one by an unrelated investigation in her home province that took up manpower( it was a corrupt land deal that was a big deal) and then a typhoon hit when we were supposed to go and delayed us another month. Also in Vietnam it was not swine flu but avaian flu so it seems this is all part of the process and you just prepare you self for the ups and downs long the way. Well not much more to report besides that, sorry for the delay but I will post more as we know more.

Plugging Along

Sorry for such a time span between the last post but just been really busy with work, paperwork and other real life things. Sadie had her second birthday last week and she had a blast. Her grandmother from Tennessee and grandfather came down for the week and she got a present every day leading up to the big day from them. Spoiled!???? Naaahhhhhh!!!! Both Grandmothers do this LOL! Only thing that was not picture perfect was our little Sadie had a case of pink eye which reared its ugly head the Saturday before. So probably no pictures posted but it was a good day.

On the adoption front, we have started our homestudy and adoption prep classes. Kind of funny as most of the classes deal with international adoption issues and being through one already alot of it is repetative. However you always gain a little new information or knowledge with each new thing you do.

We are also getting all of the paperwork together and that part should actually go pretty quick for us. anyway more later.

The Adoption Journey Part II

Well the holidays have come and gone and we have been pondering something fr quite some time and finally decided to act. We have decided to start the process of our second adoption! Why now, well the process takes some time and with the paperchase and all we felt we were in a postion where that is what we want t do. It was not a decision made lightly but now that we have decided we are ready to go for it. This time we are going to adopt from Mexico! Why? Well several reasons. Mexico was a country we looked at originally several years ago and at the time we decided against it due to the process, as well as we felt Vietnam was where we should be for the journey we made.( Which proved oh so true!) Now as we hope our family grows we looked at Mexico again and it seemed the right fit for us. No specifics on age gender etc, that sort of thing we hope to keep to the family until later. But why Mexico,? Gene lived there in 1990 and has a very strong affinity for the country and the people. Because of that and other factors we felt strongly about Mexico the second time around. Like the journey for Sadie, we do not expect smooth sailing. It will be a time of ups and downs, headaches and joys but we hope to chronicle as much as we can here in this blog for folks. So stay tuned!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year 2009 from Sadie and Gene and Dee!