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!