We Have Immigration Approval!

Well, the USCIS approved our I600-A form. We are very excited to have yet another piece of the puzzle that we need before we can bring our precious girl home. Now, we continue to wait for the adoption agreement to come from Taiwan as we prepare our dossier paperwork. Sam and I went and received our local police clearance today. That was easier and quicker than I thought. We are waiting to hear from our doctor to see if we need to do another physical for the Taiwan medical form. We had full physicals done for the US homestudy in August, so I think we probably can go off of that to fill in the new form. We have to get the doctor's signature notarized, however, and there isn't a notary in our doctor's office. I will have to wait to see how we work out this one. 

In the meantime, we have been preparing Christina and Jing-Qi's room. I have lovingly painted clouds on their ceiling, although they don't look as much like the originals as I was hoping. It was fun, though. I also found glow paint that looks white in the daytime, so I painted stars and a crescent moon with it over the clouds. Now, the family gathers at bedtime in their room to star gaze with the lights off. It's pretty fun, and it seems to help with the wait. I miss my girl more and more and wish I could hear her cute little voice trying to convince me in Chinese to come outside and play. By the way, please pray that my efforts to learn Mandarin would be fruitful. I am notoriously horrible at picking up foreign languages and seem to be better at reading it than hearing it on the Rosetta Stone. Also, please continue to pray that God's hand and timing will be upon our whole adoption process. We are so grateful for the prayers.