Happy Lunar New Year! :)

We've been informed that our home study was approved by the Wyoming Children's Society - now we are waiting for our placement agency, WACAP, to review it and give us the official approval.  I anticipate that we will hear any time now.  It's exciting to have that step finished and to be moving onto the next one!

Caolon and I are celebrating the Lunar New Year tonight and thinking of all the promise this year holds for us.  As we hung our lanterns this evening, I couldn't help but think that maybe somewhere in China, our little one is celebrating, too!

Last of the Home Study Visits!

We met with Liz tonight to finish up our home study!  She just has to type it up and send it off to our placement agency and then we should be set! :)

I really can't say enough good things about Wyoming Children's Society.  They have been so open and willing to help us with all of our questions (and my craziness/anxiety) and they are so friendly.  When we first started looking into China adoption, I was a little intimidated with the requirement of having so many post-adoption visits with our social worker.  But our gal is so nice, and the whole organization has been so wonderful, that I actually really look forward to our visits. 

Anyway, the next step is to request permission to bring a foreign child into America - more forms and paperwork.  Really, it hasn't been all that overwhelming so far.  We are just taking things one step at a time.  Looking forward to the step that involves meeting our little Panda!

Airing our laundry...

We have a new bestie named Liz.  She is our social worker and she might as well be a bestie as she now knows more about us than any of our other friends and most of our family!  There is nothing you can keep a secret in these visits - everything is on the table.

Actually it's been good though.  In addition to interviewing us about every little detail of our lives, she has also been very informative about the adoption process and post-adoption things to consider.  She let us know about some of the various events Wyoming Children's Society does for culture and community building and she talked to us about health issues we might want to be aware of when we adopt a child from the waiting child program.  I think she will be an excellent resource for us as we move through this process.

We have one more visit with her next week and then we can move into the next step!