China Adoption

It has been brought to my attention that some folks didn't know that we were in the process of another adoption. Sorry, right now we are in the waiting period. We sent our paperwork to China in December and were logged in 12/22/05. From that date we wait our turn for our referral, in June 2006 China issued referrals for people that sent their paperwork in last June. That should give you some idea about the wait, well at least we can guess it should be somewhere around 12 months until we get the referral and then about another 2 until we travel. Payton needs a sister...Mia needs a family, it couldn't be more perfect.

We are all really excited, this doesn't work anything like Guatemala so this is new to us too! Feel free to ask us any questions that you have we will answer the best we can! It is difficult to explain the wait to the boys because the time frame has changed so much from the time that we started. With Payton we could tell them that it would be after my birthday (August) and before Christmas. We thought that we would be in China this summer but if things keep going the way they are it might be next summer that we see her beautiful little face. We can see looking back that things have happened just as they should and when the waiting gets hard we try to remember that in time she will be here and it will be just perfect.

We plan to name her MiaBella Metise. Mia was Chad's choice and Bella was mine and they sound great together. As most of you know all of our kids have family names or names with meaning to our families so we used that in a different way to honor my dad's family this time. Metise means of French and Indian origin, I am not good at pronunciation so here is the dictionary version (mā-tēs', -tē'). We added an e on the end because it looked better, we are still not sure about that part. We may also add some part of her given name. Hey we've got time.