With Much Sadness

DH's father passed away unexpectedly the day I wrote the last post. We thank everyone for all their kind words and thoughts at such a very, very sad time.

Two days ago, our agency called us to tell us that CCAA had pulled the files of those two boys off of our agency's list. They pulled the files because they had been with our agency for over 5 months without official word of any interest in them from any families. It's a new thing the CCAA is doing, probably with the intent to get those children exposed to other families looking to adopt.

China's adoption system is government-run. We have no idea where the boys are in the system now. Maybe their files will be sent to some other agency, or maybe they will show up on the next release of the "Shared" list (vs. agency list). Either way, we are thinking about what our next steps might be.

We are having files on two boys reviewed

There are two boys on our agency's Waiting Children (in China) list that we are interested in learning more about. Tomorrow we are going to a pediatrician that specializes in international adoption. The doctor will evaluate the medical and developmental files and 3 photos of each child.

This is exciting. And, of course, a bit scary. But mostly exciting.

Adoption Status Update

The latest batch of referrals from the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) was for families whose applications were received April 4 and 5, 2006. Another small batch. NO, WAIT - another small batch in terms of number of days, but apparently a relatively large amount of children and parents were matched within this batch. Estimates are for for the next batch to cover up to near April 11.

We are looking into China's special needs/waiting children program. Maybe a little boy is in our future?!?