Important Milestones

  • October 23, 2008 - Head Home! The plane is supposed to land around 8:30 pm
  • October 22, 2008 - Swearing In Ceremony
  • October 21, 2008 - Consulate Appointment
  • October 10, 2008 - Leave for China
  • September 8, 2008 - Travel Invitation! Hoping to get an October Consulate Appointment!
  • July 24,2008 - We have LOA! 78 days from LID!
  • May 8, 2008 - Official LID ... Now, we wait.
  • April 28, 2008 - Dossier on the way to China!
  • April 7, 2008 - Received USICS approval for Jessie Rose. Approval was signed on April 4.
  • March 14, 2008 - USCIS/FBI Fingerprinting in Birmingham
  • February 21, 2008 - Homestudy sent off to USCIS
  • January 27, 2008 - Find out home study is in the hands of our agency and they are starting to get the authentications for our dossier.
  • December 13, 2007 - Fourth and final home study! Come on, Karen, get that thing written up!
  • December 3, 2007 - Third homestudy. One more to go!
  • Nov. 18, 2007 - Second homestudy
  • Nov. 11, 2007 - First homestudy scheduled for 1pm.
  • Sept. 24, 2007 - Sent final application and China dossier to agency
  • July 13, 2007 - Pre-Approval to Adopt Received from China
  • March 21, 2007 - Letter of Intent submitted for Jessie Rose

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

More from China














More photos ... Jesse sprawled out in the bed this morning and our trip to the Kunming Zoo. Actually managed to get some photos of me with Jesse and she is smiling! We continue to have issues with her not wanting to play and be held by mama. I know it will come, but its tough. She will let me help her with things, but I think maybe she's trying not to get too close until she knows I'm not leaving her.






Jesse continues to amze me with how smart she is. She copied her Chinese and American names for me, she drew a clock with numbers earlier, helped string beads for a necklace and cut mamas hair! She had done up my hair with some ponytail holders and one of them got very tangled, so she cut my hair for me to get it out. Blends right in, no problem.






She threw up again at breakfast this morning. We're starting to think she may not be able to handle dairy products.






Last night I had to put her in the bed at 9 and she cried herself to sleep. She didn't try to get out of the bed but it was very sad. She finally collapsed around 10 and I was able to get a shower. She slept until nearly 8 this morning and I had to wake her up then.






I know it sounds like a lot of negative, but they are normal stuff. It will get better and better and we do have our good moments. She did actually let me pick her up and hold her for a few minutes last night. A good step in the right direction. I think it will get better faster when we get home and she sees me interacting with Ray and Joe.
We were supposed to leave Kunming Saturday but it wil be Sunday now.
More later ... May be a day or two.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Laura, you know that I am saying my prayers for you and Jessie. It's very easy to put yourself into her tiny shoes and try to figure things out from that perspective, so we're all hoping your guardian angels are watching over you two. HUGS. :)Lindao