Discouraging Day

The news today on the CCAA Website was not encouraging.


In the entire preceding month, the CCAA has only matched one week's worth of couples with their babies.
This delay is going to mean that we may not even travel to China this calendar year. Also, we will have to have our homestudy updated and our fingerprints redone, and that is just for starters...

Shelli and Jason are in China

We met Shelli and Jason at a bimonthly waiting
parents meeting at FCC (Families with Children from
China). They are terrific people.

They're now in China with their new daughter! Here
is one of the pictures they have blogged:


Photo of Rou Rou

Shelli and Jason and Rou Rou couldn't be happier. She is 3.5 years
old, so their waiting time to go to China was much shorter than ours
is. Here is a quote from thier blog:

After dinner she ran in the the room and took out her hair jingles. She now knows that they will be there every morning and so she is ok about taking them out when she goes to sleep. Kathy keeps telling her that she will never be
separated from Mama and Baba. We will go to other hotels, travel in other buses (she thinks all taxis, vans etc are buses) and fly on a big plane but we will never be separated and all her toys and clothes are hers. It has been so wonderful that in such a short time and in such a little act … taking out her
hair barrettes and putting them on the table or taking off
her jacket rather than sleeping in it …that we can see how much she trusts us. We could not be happier, more exhausted than ever but so, so happy!

You can read more at: http://web.mac.com/macgyver139/iWeb/Shu_Rou/Welcome.html

The DC-area FCC link is: http://www.fcccapital.com/