LOC!!

Our "Letter of Seeking Confirmation from Adopter" (LOC) arrived at All God's Children this morning.

We left work, picked up the boys early, and made a run to Portland to sign it - it went out on its way back to China late this afternoon.

The LOC is a one page form that requires us to confirm that yes, we really want to do this. All we had to do was check the "yes" box and sign the bottom. Our LOC took almost exactly 13 weeks to arrive; the average is 11-17 weeks.

Next we will be waiting for our Travel Approval, which should arrive in 2-5 weeks, and shortly after that we should receive the date and time of our Consulate Appointment in Guangzhou. Bottom line is that we'll be heading to China around the first of July.

AGCI has four other families who are on our timeline, so there is a very good chance that we will be in Guangzhou together with them for the second half of our trip.

We are thrilled, and we are both happy and sad for Leah. Sometime in the next eight weeks she will be removed from her foster family and placed back in the orphanage in preparation for her adoption. We hurt for her and all the changes she will be facing, and we also hurt for her foster mother, who loves her very much. We know that God has placed her in our family, and His plans are perfect; it'll just be hard.

But, we're excited! We're about to be parents again! The last minute preparation frenzy is about to begin.....