We are still next!!!

Well we are almost at the end of October and China has still not done the next set of referrals.  We are hoping that in the next week we will see a picture of you and we are going to try and get you just as soon as we can.
We love you and can not wait to meet you.

Baba and Mama
爸爸 和 妈妈

WE ARE NEXT!!!!

Rose,

China has matched through May 18th.  There are only 4 days left and since 2 of them are the weekend we are next.

Your MaMa and I hope to see you by Christmas.

我爱你

妈妈 和 爸爸
Mama and Baba

News

Rose,

Well the buzz on Rumor Queen is that China has matched through May 18, 2006. This means that we are next. It won't be long now that your Baba and I see your beautiful face.

Wo Ai Ni
I Love You

Mama

Just another bump on the road.

Hi Rose,
Baba here.  Well it looks like we are at 7 days and holding.  For some reason CCAA is holding off on sending referrals.  I still believe that we will see your face in the referral batch right after this one.  So you need to be patient for both you and Mama.  I will do the best I can to be patient for all of us and so will Mama.

我 爱 你
Wo Ai Ni
I Love You
爸爸
Baba

Wo Ai Ni!

Rose，
I have decided that the first thing I am going to say to you is:
wo ai ni!    wo shi nide baba.
我爱你！ 我是你的爸爸。
I love you! I am your daddy.

I just wish I could say it to you today.

Love
baba
爸爸

Getting closer

Rose,

We are getting closer. It looks like China is referring 14 days so we going from 26 days to 12. We hope that this means that we will see your beautiful face before the end of October and then have you in our arms before the end of the year.

We love you and can not wait to see you.

Ma and Ba
妈 和 爸

Missing you

Today your Ma and Ba are missing you. We are hoping China will refer you to us in the next 3 months so we can have you here for Christmas.

Ma and Ba
妈 和 爸

Father's Day 2010

Dear Rose,
Sunday is Father's day and knowing that I will see you this year is the Father's Day present I have been waiting for.  The only thing that will be better is holding you in my arms.

我爱你
I love you
爸爸
baba

Wondering what you look like

I was looking at Blog posts of people who just received their referrals and I started wondering what you will look like.

Will your hair be long or short?  Will you be skinny or heavy? Will you be short or tall?

I have decided that I do not care what the answers are I just want to see you and hold you in my arms and never let go.

我爱你
I love you

爸爸
Ba Ba

We are down to 25 (二十五) days

Rose,

We have waited for you for over 4 years now and we love you even more today than when we first became LID. As I said in a previous post I am sure there is a reason it has taken this long, The only reason I will accept is that we had to wait until you were born. We can not wait to hold you in our arms.

Love

Ma and Ba
妈妈 和 爸爸

181 days

There are 181 days between where China is refering and when we get to see your picture. I looked at all of the other blogs that had photos of referrals and was sad that I could not yet see you. 181 days is not too long if they were to go by in order, but as you know that does not happen in adoption. Instead one day might be a whole month or maybe this month it will only be a week.

My hopes are that soon a day will be a day and you will be mine and you mothers to hold and Love.


爸
Ba

One year of being LID

It has been one year since LID, I did not think that we would still be waiting for you to come to us. Now it looks like it will be at least another year before we see your face. I believe there is a reason for the waiting, I am just not sure that the reason is good enough to keep you away from us.

Please try and hurry up your Mom and Dad are very impatient people.

Love
爸
Ba

Well, here we are at the 4 month mark and still not a speed up yet with CCAA. It is also the Jewish New Years today. Hoping that where ever you are you are having a happy New year and maybe we will be holding you this time next year.

Shona Tova Rose

妈 和 爸
Ma and Ba

Brown Envelope

While things are still going very slowly, currently referrals are coming approximately 14 months after LID - and today is our three month mark, we did get our brown envelope today.


妈
Ma

A letter to Rose written on Tuesday April 11th 2006

Dear Rose,

Yesterday I sent out the last piece of paperwork that has to go through the system. It is the I-171, in some ways I am relieved to know that we are almost at the end of the paperchase, but on the other hand I will no longer be able to work on bringing you home. You will soon be in other hands as far as getting you adopted. Your mother and I can not wait to bring you into our family. I know that with us you will know love.
爸

Ba

First Posting

I have been told that posting to a blog can help alleviate the anxiety that can develop while you are waiting to be matched. Susanne and I have just past the one month anniversary of our LID and it seems like it has been years.

I just hope that writing things down will help.


Larry