Update on 4/15/2006

Orientation went well. We met a couple from Grayson. It is a small world. We also briefly met with our social worker. We setup an appointment for our first meeting with her next week. She is going to meet with us at work.

We have started the paperchase. There are alot of documents we need:

1. Adoption Petition -- basically petitions the Chinese Government for adoption. We have completed this.

2. Birth Certificates -- we have ordered them from NY.

3. Marriage License -- done! yeah.

4. Financial Statement - done. We have to lists our salaries, our life insurance, our assets and liabilities.

5. Physicals -- Bill got his done. We are justing waiting on the blood test results. You have to be tested for HIV plus about 3 other things. My physical is scheduled for next Friday.

6. Police Clearance -- this is turning out to be a little bit difficult. We live in Walton County. We do have a Monroe address but live outside of the city limits so we cannot go to Monroe Police. We went to Walton County Sheriff. Paid 15 dollars each and got back something that is not acceptable. We need to have a statement of no record on letterhead. Walton County doesn't do letterhead. We have to do this step over again and go with the GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) -- downside to this is we need to get fingerprinted (need to pay for it) plus add another 30 dollars to submit the form back to the GBI. We should have just gone with the GBI to begin with. Live and learn I guess.

We have been told by the agency that the wait is more than likely 10-14 months from LID. LID means Logged In Dossier. We hope to get our Dossier into China maybe by August. So count Sept as month one. The wait doesn't bother me. I know we will have a child next year!