Waiting for Approval...

It has been just over 1 week since we first saw our daughter's sweet face. We are very excited and thought we would share a little of what we know about her personality.

We have been told that little "NiNi" is outgoing, has a ready smile, likes listening to music, is active, full of curiosity, likes to imitate others, has a great desire to 'show herself' (I wonder if she will like to be the center of attention like her sister?) likes playing with toys, likes to have heart-to-heart talks with the nannies and gets along well with other children. She also likes to be clean (likes her baths), is a deep sleeper (Yeah!) and has a good appetite.

We have been told that our progress status has changed from 'Submitted' to 'Assessing'...hopefully sometime this week it will change to 'Approved.' We have been told that this pre-approval may take up three weeks....after which they will start digging through our larger dossier (all those papers we completed two years ago) and send us a Letter Seeking Confirmation (LSC). (Basically a letter asking us if we are still committed to adopt her.) It could take anywhere from 30-100 days to receive the LSC, after which we will be granted travel approval which will be about 6-8 weeks later.

Please pray that our paperwork will be handled quickly. Once we receive pre-approval we will be able to send a care package for her to her orphanage. Another adoptive family is visiting NiNi's orphanage on Tuesday. They are going to ask if they would be allowed to take some updated photos for us. please pray that their request is granted. We would love to see a more recent photo.