Didn't take long!! Out of review!

Our files are now out of review at the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA), now we play the waiting game. All the people that sent their files in from July 22, 2005 to December 21, 2005 will get their referral before us but now at least we know that it is very unlikely that there will be any problems. Besides the never ending wait! They review files in the review room and then the files go to the matching room where they sit until our time comes, which could be 5 months to a year from what I hear right now. If you are interested in looking at how it works look for the link on the left column towards the bottom of the page. We are waiting for it to say they have finished placement thru December 22, 2005. That is our LID.

Mariners Game

Here are some pictures of the Mariners game that we went to with Wyatt and Jaxon. Todd had tickets but was not able to go so we got VERY lucky! The boys had a great time, we were hoping to get some autographs but they had a late game the night before and a game the next day so they were not signing that day. We took the boys to the team store and let each of them pick something. Wyatt got a baseball for his collection and Jaxon picked a Mariners bike helmet. He looked like a "special" child for the rest of the day because he wouldn't take the helmet off after that. They were feeling a little silly, can you tell!

First Day Video

The First Day of School

Wow what a week this was for us! Jaxon started kindergarten and Wyatt is now in second grade. My little boys are growing up to quick! Wyatt was worried that he wouldn't have any friends because his best friend moved away. He had a great day and couldn't stop talking about it when he got home, he has several kids in his class that are also on his soccer team and a few that were on his baseball team. We talked and I reminded him that other kids were probably feeling the same way and all he would have to do to make them feel better would be to say Hi. When he got home he told me it worked, he said Hi to people and they talked back! Imagine that! To a second grader that was a surprise!

Jaxon had a very eventful day, the school part went very well. One of his good friends is in his class so he was really excited to be there. It was just like another day at preschool with him except for the bus ride. The bus ride.....That's another story. I went to the school to make sure that the kids got on the right bus to get back to my house and then I planned to go home and wait for them with my sister. The kids bus showed up 45 minutes late to the school, apparently the driver didn't know school started on Wednesday. I waited at the school until they were on their way and then went home thinking it would be about 40 minutes. Three phone calls and 1 1/2 hours later my kid was at home. He thought the bus driver was taking them to "the end of the earth". The bus driver got severely lost, she's not the driver any more! The bus ride has been much shorter now! He loves it!

Colton starts preschool in two weeks, I can't even imagine what that poor woman will go thru with him!

Whatcha Gonna do with all that junk, all that junk inside that shirt?????

Payton discovered a new storage system! Look at her shirt, the last two days she has filled it with blocks! The last picture is with all the blocks that we pulled out of her shirt!

Now It's Official

www.china-ccaa.org Our files are now in the review room. Not that it really means too much but once our dossier is reviewed we can breathe a huge sigh of relief knowing that they didn't find any reason to deny us a child and then we wait for our turn. It is starting to look like it could be a long wait, possibly over 18 months. But we wait...