Trip to China Delayed

Unfortunately, our trip to get our son  has been delayed by one week. The office where we must go to get Yangkang's passport will be closed Jan. 1-3, so dates had to be changed. We will now leave on Jan. 2 and gotcha day will be the following Monday.

Some good news: we have our flights booked, and our agency is now booking the in-country travel. Other good news, our agency has another family that will be in China at the same time as us. We will meet up with them in Guangzhou.

Good News

We received a grant this morning from A Child Waits Foundation for $2,000. It will go toward our in China travel expenses. 

Also, this morning our consulate appointment was confirmed for January 6. We will depart for China the day after Christmas. We will have family house sitting for us while we are gone. In the mean time, we will have two busy weeks before travel with Christmas and preparations.

Yangkang's room is ready. 

We're Going to China!

We received Travel Approval today! Our Consulate Appointment will be confirmed by tomorrow. We will probably be leaving the day after Christmas -- best Christmas present ever!

Article 5

Our Article 5 was pick up yesterday and mailed to CCCWA (China's  Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption). Now we wait for Travel Approval, which should be next week. From there our agency will make our appointment at the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China for Yangkang's visa. Our departure and entire trip will hinge on that appointment. 

We requested an update on Yangkang a couple of weeks ago, and we received it on my birthday; what a gift! According to the numbers, he is 37" tall and weighs 35 lb. and wears size 9 toddler shoes. I have a feeling they weighed him wearing multiple layers, coat and shoes. Anyway, we think he is wearing a 3T size just like Mia, though she is 38" tall and weighs 30 lb. She needs a 3T for the length, but the waist is always too big.

We are still working on getting his room ready. I ordered his bed, mattress and ceiling fan yesterday. They should all be here by next week. 

With the update we received three new pics and a video. Here's my favorite pic:

Love the hair!