December 28th was Max's first birthday. Heidi and Griffin (3) came over to toast Max with a cup of hot chocolate, and a hearty rendition of "Happy Birthday". Griffin is just getting used to his future role of "Big Friend", so we read a book about how Max came to be, and how I will soon bring him home. He had lots of questions!! :)
It looks like Carolyn and I will be traveling from January 28th through February 12th. We are working on getting our travel visas, which is more complicated than we had initially thought. It turns out that Carolyn (bless her heart!!) will have to fly from Panama to San Fransisco, spend a few days there with her niece and get her own travel visa at the Chinese Embassy. Then, she'll fly up here on the 24th, and we're off on the 28th.
Our itinerary looks like this:
Jan. 29: Arrive Beijing- tour of Beijing
February 1- February 6: Picking up Max in Chongqing City
February 6- to Guangzhou for US processing
February 9: US CONSULATE APPOINTMENT if confirmed
February 11: depart China and return home
Of course, none of this is confirmed yet, so we'll see. In the meantime, I'm in the process of rearranging my house, collecting "stuff", and basically getting ready. It's so much fun!!
Thanks for all your thoughts!
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Rick and I know this pain all too well. Having our referral, waiting for travel and having our daughter's birthday come and go. Here is the post I wrote on Jazmyne's 2nd Birthday, last July 1, 2008: "We are now going into month 4 out of a possible 5 month waiting period since the official upload of our LOI and Dossier to China! This is a very quiet and lonely adoption time. Nothing happens and we virtually hear nothing from any one at our adoption agency because everything is done. It is so quiet that Rick and I sometimes wonder if we dreamed it all. Such excitement, anticipation and many, many tasks to be completed before and since March when we got Jiangcan's referral and fell in love with "our daughter". The daughter that God has always intended to be ours! Beautiful pictures of a sweet angelic face. Pictures that are now engraved into our very hearts and souls as a family. Pictures that became the light that was turned on in the diamond room, forever casting rainbows on everything we now see, hear, touch and feel. Pictures that are animated in our minds in an instant! And yet still no confirmation that this beautiful little girl is actually coming home any time soon. Bright sun shiny days here at the blueberry farm are filled with discussions of dreams of a little girl with a pail giggling as she collects a few berries in the pail but ultimately gains more in her belly than in her pail. We can not possibly let this very special day, Jazmyne's Birthday, go without wishing that this will be the LOA Day. The day we receive the final Letter of Acceptance from China! We can't let it go without sending messages from our hearts to her's so many thousands of miles away, across a vast ocean and endly seas that says, "We love you so much Jazmyne, this very special day and everyday forever more!' Below you will find the only gift I can give her on this very special day, a poem
If I Were In Charge of the World on July 1st (Jazmyne’s Birthday)
If I were in charge of the world on July 1st...
I’d be with you today on your second birthday baking your birthday cake together, and watching you at your party blow out the candles on that very cake.
If I were in charge of the world on July 1st...
There'd be no distance between us, you would not be all the way over there in China, we would not be stuck here waiting for you in the U.S. of A.
If I were in charge of the world on July 1st...
You wouldn't spend another birthday without your parents. You wouldn't celebrate yet another birthday inside the walls of an orphanage.You wouldn't spend this day without your family or without a birthday kiss from both your Mommy and Daddy.
If I were in charge of the world on July 1st...
I’d be receiving the LOA phone call that very day,tears of joy would stream down my face, and on this very special day, know that you soon will be home.
If I Were In Charge of the World on July 1st, Jazmyne!
Written By Jazmyne's Proud Mu Qin, Kathy Rees"
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