Pictures of Ellie!!

Here are the four pictuers we recieved of Ellie! Of course we think she's just adorable, but we maybe a bit biased! She is about 8 months old in these pictures, and is currently 11 months old. Her birthday is January 15, 2007. Hope we make it to China for her first birthday!

The only information we have so far is that she's a heavy sleeper, likes to play, is sometimes obstinate (aren't we all?) and she is attached to her caregiver. We're told this is a good sign, since she's attached to one person, she is likely to do it again. Let's hope!

It's hard to believe we're looking at our daughter after all this time! Katie seems excited, too. She asked us to put her sister's picture in her bedroom. How sweet!

We'll find out in a couple of weeks when we'll be traveling. Most likely late January, possibly February. We're not sure if they'll send us over during Chinese New Year, although that would probably be quite an experience!

We got the call!!!

Well, we finally have information about Ellie!!
Our agency called us today during Katie's school holiday lunch, and there was no reception in the cafeteria! Needless to say, we called as soon as we saw the message!
Ellie's Chinese name is Ming RongRong. Her birthday is January 15, 2007, so she will be just about a year when we travel to get her. She is from Jaing-Xi province, which is just about central China, near the east coast. We'll have a picture tomorrow at 2:00, so we'll post is as soon as we can! It's so hard to believe that after two years of waiting we finally can put a face to this little one we've been calling Ellie!

Ellie's room

This is Ellie's room! Aside from putting the crib together (and getting the Christmas boxes out) the room is ready! (And so are we!) We owe this adorable paint job to Cindy, a very talented teacher and artist! I "won" her in a Relay for Life auction last school year. Lucky me!

Here's hoping Ellie will be using this room very soon!

Soon???

Well, we're on pins and needles this week waiting to hear if we're "in". Hopefully we'll hear something either way this week. We'll have a picture of Ellie on this blog as soon as we get it!

Almost there... (we hope)

Well, the CCAA has completed referrals through December 8, 2005! Our LID (the date China accepted our paperwork) is December 14, 2005. So.... we are 6 days away from being included in the December batch of referrals. We're REALLY hoping this will happen! Keep us in your prayers for this!
Not sure what happened to the original blog, it just sort of disappeared one day! Hope this one works!
We'll post again as soon as we have some news!