Loving Abigail Home: October 2011

Making leaf rubbings

Making bark rubbings

Loving on little brother :)

A Surprise 90th Birthday Party for Auntie!

Enjoying Auntie's party :)

Our Adoption Timeline

October 15, 2009 Received Call that our daughter has developed spinal acute myelitis
October 14, 2009 Signed and FedExed Letter Of Acceptance (LOA) to AWAA
October 12, 2009 Received Referral Acceptance (RA)
July 30, 2009 Second Round of Hep Vaccination
June 17,2009 First Round of Vaccinations for Hep A & B and also got TDAP
June 11,2009 Received Pre-Approval (PA) from the China's Special Needs Department
May 18,2009 Talked with AWAA Social Worker to get an addendum for our home study
May 12, 2009 AWAA Submitted Our Electronic Acceptance (EA) to China
May 11, 2009 Requested, Reviewed, & Locked 5th Shared Referral
May 9, 2009 Requested & Reviewed 4th Shared Referral
May 6, 2009 Received 3rd Shared Referral
April 22, 2009 Completed the New AWAA Waiting Child Application Process
March 26, 2009 Received 2nd Shared Referral
February 23, 2009 Received 1st Shared Referral
February 18, 2009 Completed Online Application for America World Waiting Child Program
February 2009 Updated Home Study and Re-fingerprinted for I-171 Renewal
Oct.? 2007 to NOW Named & Prayed for Abigail
October 22,2007 Our Dossier was Logged Into China's Computer (LID)
October 12,2007 Our Dossier was Sent to China (DTC)
April - August 2007 Doctor Visits, Paperchasing, Home Study, Fingerprints...collecting all that's needed for our dossier to be sent to China
April 11, 2007 Approved by America World
March 28, 2007 Completed Online Application with AWAA
March 24,2007 Decided to partner with America World
March 2007 More In-Depth Research...attended 3 different informational meetings with 3 different adoption agencies...told family about our decision to begin the adoption journey...setup a savings account for adoption expenses
February 2007 Worked through a Bible study together that was all about God's perspective of adoption...He opened our hearts and minds to move forward NOW
Decmeber 2006 Prayed more intensely...bought books and began learning about the process
June 2006 Began praying about when to adopt
2000-2006 On & Off Discussions of adoption...often specifically from China

Loving Abigail Home

Monday, March 26, 2012

October 2011

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