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Christmas Fun

The weekend before Christmas started with a trip to the emergency room. Yep you guessed it Jackson. I had just gotten home from work when he grabbed a sharp knife off of the counter and cut his index finger. Fortunately, David was only about 15 minutes away and my friend Ann had just left. So she responded like a real trooper and came back to help me during this crisis situation. It ended at the ER with 3 stitches in his finger. He will hold that little finger up and say OW---
We were very blessed to have my sister Amy home to celbrate my Mom's birthday and Christmas. We took the kids to the lights at the Zoo to help get everyone in the spirit of the holidays. Christmas Eve was spent with family and Christmas morning all of our family reported to our house a 8am to see wHat Santa had left. We had a great time-however I could not keep from getting a little teary eyed over my Madelynn. I hate to think she is missing out. I guess in someway it is comforting to know that she has no idea what she is missing. Next year will be a blast.

Well the hustle and bustle of Christmas is mostly over. We have been putting Legos together for the past 3 days straight. Bo is such a whiz and will sit there for hours upon hours putting them together. The bike Santa brought him is still in the corner. He is not the least bit interested. He prefers the indoor stuff. Kaylee likes her legos but is more into video games and running around outside with her walkie talkies. Justin loves his PSP and Jackson he wants to do what everyone else is doing.

Well that is all for now. We are waiting for an appointment to go and get our fingerprints done for immigration. I will keep you all posted

Excitement leading up to Christmas

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The excitment leading up to Christmas included Jackson's first haircut. Jackson licking the bowl and learning to say cheese for the camera.

Photos of Madelynn taken November 28

Well things are moving along. We got our DCF background check back yesterday and will be sending everything on to immigration next week. Then we will wait for our fingerprint appointment. While we are waiting another family is in China and were nice enough to snap some pictures of our girl for us so here they are. They were just taken yesterday.

Thank you Theresa for the wonderful pictures

Teresa and her family are in China now adopting their son. They were so sweet to take pictures of several of the children who's families are waiting to adopt them. Here is an updated picture of our little girl. Isn't she beautiful.

New Photos

I met a woman online who is in China right now adopting her son. Her son is in the same orphangage as our baby. Before she left, I was lucky enough to get her Madelynn's info. She spoke with the orphanage yesterday and they said she would be able to get pictures for us on Friday. So we are looking forward to Friday. Stay tuned.

Update on the Process

We are on a mission. We received the email on October 10th letting us know that we have been matched with our baby girl. Moments after the email, I was on the phone ordering birth certificates, marriage licenses, and background checks. I was also quick to email Phil, our dear social worker, who tolerates all of our neurotic ideas in an effort to get our paperwork done as quickly as possible.

Well to bring everyone up to speed. We have had one homestudy visit out of the 4 that our required and are currently waiting to get our background check from the Dept of Children and Families. This is the last piece of paperwork before Phil can complete the homestudy and then we start waiting on the immigration paperwork to go through.

We are very fortunate, I connected with another mom, who is in Hefei right now getting her son. She is going to try and take some photos of Madelynn while she is there. I am very excited and hope that she is allowed to do so. Our Pre-Approval letter is suppose to be off to China on Monday. Well I need to run we are going to a trunk-or-treat festival at the local church. We are taking 3 Power Rangers and a Ninja--I am hoping next year I might have a princess in the group.