Referral and LOA!

We started the process to adopt a little girl from China in April, 2006 and on August 1, 2008 we completed our paperwork to consider a waiting child as a referral. On 8/15/2008 we received the call from our social worker that we had been matched with a 13 month girl from Shandong Province. We locked the file on China Center of Adoption Affair's (CCAA) portal and submitted our Letter of Intent (LOI) to adopt. Her Chinese name is Chen QianXun and at about 8 months old she weighed 16.1 pounds and was 25 inches tall. She is currently in foster care and we are hoping that our agency will be able to get updated measurements and photos soon. We received our official Letter of Acceptance (LOA) on 9/25/2008 from the CCAA and are now able to post her photo. We are now waiting for travel approval (TA) from the CCAA so we can finalize travel arrangements. We are so excited and cannot wait to bring her home. We have created this blog to post updates while in China. We hope you will follow our journey.