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

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Pictures from China!






Ok, here are pictures finally! We're doing pretty good. Amazing what a difference a day makes. Jesse was trying to escape this morning after I got her dressed. You can see the picture. That's a screaming crying girl with all her worldly posessions trying to run away.
She has changed clothes 4 times today, seems to prefer dresses. And she had a lot of fun playing with Nai Nai's (Pat's) hair, both in the hotel room and the restaurant.
Right now she is playing with Cole and Corey while I borrow the Schmidt's computer.
We went shoping and Jesse insisted on helping the sales ladies hand clothing to Nick Schmidt, then she helped them fold and repack everything. They were very sweet and "paid" her for her hard work with a set of new barrettes for her hair ... hoping that will grow out pretty quickly!
We also bought lots of snacks and candies and our little miss has to open everything and examine it when we got back to the room.
She is still a bit more stand-offish with me than with others with us. I think she's a bit mad at me still, but it is better thos afternoon than it was even this morning.
Its Tuesday here and we will be leaving for Guangzhou Saturday or Sunday.
Will try to post again. I'm not nearly the shutterbug Dennis is, we'll see what I come up with ... mostly more shots of Jesse and not so much the area I guess.
Oh, Godfather, her favorite toy is the calculator. She'll be looking for a position in the organization soon!

2 comments:

Susan and Nick said...

Hello Jessielin!! So good to finally see you. We love the barretts! We cannot wait to meet you.
Love,
Susan, Nick, and Sam

Anonymous said...

Nanna and Papa just saw the pictures of our new Granddaughter, Jesselin! We are thrilled to welcome her to our family!
Jessielin, we can hardly wait to hold you in our ars at last. this last year has been filled with joy that we were getting another beautiful granddaughter.
We love you so much already! We know it is a big change for you, but it is a happy change for you and you will be part of a big, loving family now.
Love,
Nanna and Papa