My first post!

What a wonderful feeling to see Meigan's name as a website! It has been a long 5 months since we started our journey, but we are now beginning to see that this baby will soon be ours! I found Mei Mei, as we all call her, on our agency's website after just curiously checking their special needs listings. No pictures, just age, sex, and medical problem. There was one listing of a baby girl, 18 months, cleft lip (repaired) and cleft palate unrepaired. We were set on adopting a healthy baby, why was this one listing weighing so heavily on my heart? I decided to call Stephanie , the agency social worker, to find out more about this child. I have very little medical knowledge about cleft lip/palate, but I was willing to read her medical report and see her picture. When I saw those empty eyes staring back at me, my heart ached. The hard part was going to be convincing Scott and our families that her condition was something we could handle.
Fast forward 2 months.... After a lot of research, speaking with doctors and medical personel and lots and lots of prayer, we are excitedly waiting to bring Pan Dong Guo home hopefully in Sept. or Oct. !!
Yesterday, we received our "Holy Grail of Immigration", I-171H, after waiting 3 long months!
We received our Pre-Approval from China just a week before! Right now, our dossier is being processed, noterized, authenticated, and certified. This takes about 3-4 weeks and then 7-10 days to expedite it to China. Then we are DTC!!! (Dossier to China). They will then give us a log in date (LID) and travel approval could come 1-3 months later. Feels so good not being obsessed with the mail at least for the time being!