Friday, October 22, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Blog Settings
We have taken our blog private as we are not able to publicly post pictures yet until we have official approval from China. We received notice yesterday that our Log In Date (LID) was 10/12/2010. This is the date that China has received our dossier and logged it into their system. The next step will be official approval (Letter of Approval - LOA). We are hoping for this by Thanksgiving, but the average wait time is 58 days currently.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Big Update
So finally the big update that everyone has been waiting for..... we have decided to switch from Bulgaria to China (for a variety of reasons) and have a boy waiting for us. He is from the China Special Needs program - he has already had surgery to correct his special need. We saw him listed on an agency waiting children's list and requested his information and received it on his 3rd birthday!
His name is Sun Zhong Qiu and he was born on 5/25/2007. Sun would be the equivalent of our last names. His first and middle names (Zhong Qiu) were given to him as he was found during the autumn festival. His American name will be Maddux Samuel Bush.
Multiple pictures below for our cutie.
The first picture we ever saw (taken in March 2010)
New Pictures Taken in October 2010:
His name is Sun Zhong Qiu and he was born on 5/25/2007. Sun would be the equivalent of our last names. His first and middle names (Zhong Qiu) were given to him as he was found during the autumn festival. His American name will be Maddux Samuel Bush.
Multiple pictures below for our cutie.
The first picture we ever saw (taken in March 2010)
New Pictures Taken in October 2010:
Monday, June 28, 2010
Where's the News...
So you are asking where the update is. We have been silent for awhile but should have some news by the end of August. It may not be the news you are expecting from Bulgaria....we are researching some other countries and children, will have more definite information coming shortly.
But....we have not been bored. We have had 2 sick cats in the last couple months - Monster with pancreatitis (yes, we managed a feeding tube for a few days) and Mickey had to have 3 inches of his intestines and his entire appendix removed!! Everyone back to healthy for now, hoping it stays that way!
Stay tuned....more to come!
But....we have not been bored. We have had 2 sick cats in the last couple months - Monster with pancreatitis (yes, we managed a feeding tube for a few days) and Mickey had to have 3 inches of his intestines and his entire appendix removed!! Everyone back to healthy for now, hoping it stays that way!
Stay tuned....more to come!
Monday, April 12, 2010
Introducing Mickey....
We brought home our new kitten on Friday night. He is doing really well (except for slight eye problem - going to vet today). He was terrified of the greyhounds the first night, but is doing much better as you can see from the second picture.
He is very very tiny - can fit into the palm of one hand. Even the adult cats that were at the cattery when we picked him up were much smaller than we thought. He'll probably grow to 7-9 pounds and will be very long and very very skinny!
Saturday, March 13, 2010
1 Year
It seems hard to believe, but today we have been registered and officially waiting for a referral from Bulgaria for one year!
Good News: We did speak with our adoption agency last week and they are still saying 18 months for a referral. The MOJ has been meeting weekly and referring approximately 10 children per session. The children that were identified in January should be on the international adoption registry shortly - approximately 4500 children.
Bad News: We know of at least one other person who has been registered for 24 months and does not have a referral yet. She also requested a child up to 24 months old at the time of referral.
We continue to wait and still hope that we will have a referral by 18 months. 18 months of waiting (going by week numbers) will be exactly our wedding anniversary date of September 20th, so maybe 18 months is what is meant to be.
Good News: We did speak with our adoption agency last week and they are still saying 18 months for a referral. The MOJ has been meeting weekly and referring approximately 10 children per session. The children that were identified in January should be on the international adoption registry shortly - approximately 4500 children.
Bad News: We know of at least one other person who has been registered for 24 months and does not have a referral yet. She also requested a child up to 24 months old at the time of referral.
We continue to wait and still hope that we will have a referral by 18 months. 18 months of waiting (going by week numbers) will be exactly our wedding anniversary date of September 20th, so maybe 18 months is what is meant to be.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Wait Times for Referral (Bulgaria)
This week we had some good news, or at least progress news from our agency. We emailed to ask if they still thought 18 months was reasonable time for us to receive a referral, based on how others waiting in line were progressing. We can see that the MOJ is meeting weekly, but it is hard to tell where they are at in the line of referrals - some are for paperwork in 2005, some in 2009, so very confusing!
Our agency received a referral for another set of parents that had been waiting 17 months at the time they received their referral. We think they also only requested a girl. They were registered only 6-7 months ahead of us.
The other good news is that between 4000-5000 children were recently added to the registry of children available for adoption, based on the work the MOJ did late last year with adding children if they had been in orphanages and parents had not requested to pick them up by December 31, 2009.
So based on this, we were told that 18 months or possibly shorter is still realistic. We are hoping this is the case. It is hard to believe, but in 2 weeks we will already have been waiting for 12 months.
Our agency received a referral for another set of parents that had been waiting 17 months at the time they received their referral. We think they also only requested a girl. They were registered only 6-7 months ahead of us.
The other good news is that between 4000-5000 children were recently added to the registry of children available for adoption, based on the work the MOJ did late last year with adding children if they had been in orphanages and parents had not requested to pick them up by December 31, 2009.
So based on this, we were told that 18 months or possibly shorter is still realistic. We are hoping this is the case. It is hard to believe, but in 2 weeks we will already have been waiting for 12 months.
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