Wow! Jumping through hoops to get Jailyn HOME!

Oh Happy days and overwhelming times!!!! We love our little girl so much and just can not stop looking at her darling little face and sparkling eyes. So much has happened in the past 12 days. WE waited for our official documents and translation of the referral which was received one week later. We have secured a Pediatrician and Dr. Staat the International Pediatrician at Cincinnati Children's Hospital said she is one of the healthiest kids she has seen come out of China and approved and reviewed her medical. WE are blessed she was abandoned at birth and believed to be born July 11 and immediately put in foster care with one caregiver July 12. That is great news as she has been cared for better than the kids in an orphanage. We are so pleased with the information from the foster mom. She enjoys watching TV and is slightly impatient and an extravert. It appears she is alot like her mommy and daddy and has those round cheeks too. I just want to kiss them. It will break my heart when the foster mommy has to give her to us. Our happy day will be a sad bitter sweet day. Jailyn will have to go through the grief of losing the only caregiver she has known. We will have to build trust, show her love she so deserves, meet all her needs so she will attach and bond with us. We will be the only ones to care and hold her for many months. We have lots of guidance through our social workers and International Adoption program at Children's Hospital to help us. We are so blessed and could not be happier with the care and help of Dr. Staat. We were refingerprinted for the last time woohoo! Got some of our documents sent back to the agency and still plenty more to plow through and notarize. The best document was the Letter of Confirmation ( The Official document from China). We signed late Friday and I cried and felt a bit of relief that it was heading back to our agency then to Beijing to be hand carried to the Children's China Adoption Welfare Affairs office.

Jailyn aka Feng Xiang Ting ( Her Chinese given name) resides in Fostercare outside the FengCheng Social Welfare Institure in the Jiangxi Province. We understand that they will bring Jailyn to the Nanchang Capital of Jiangxi Province for our Gotcha Day either Sunday or Monday when we travel. We believe we will travel in early June and hoping the first weekend will be our Gotcha weekend. WE must travel to Jiangxi for a week and then to Guangzhou to exit the country via the US Consulate. WE have lots to prepare to do before we travel and are awaiting Confirmation of our LOC and then plan to receive our travel approval 3-4 weeks later then we can book travel to China once our appointments are booked. Hopefully only 6-7 weeks and we will travel. Jailyn just turned 9 months yesterday and are so excited she will be home for her first Birthday July 11. Pray for patience and not to get to overwhelmed with everything we need to do and gather to travel. It is really happening and I am so happy and getting closer to having my baby girl in my arms. I just want this paperwork/bureaucracy journey to end and to stop jumping through hoops. I want the happy journey home to begin......with our daughter making our family complete. Thanks for all the well wishes and love and support. It means so much to us to have family and friends cheering us on as our dream comes true.

Jailyn we love you sooooooooooooo much and are so happy!!!!!!