News From CHI !!

Our Case Worker, Marianne Adams recently sent the following message:
Friday, August 25, 2006 Subject: China Referrals


37 CHI July 15 and July 21, 2005 log in date families received their
referrals on 8/25/06. All the referrals are for little girls. Most of
the referrals are between 10 to12 months old. Three families received
toddler referrals with two of them being 2 year and 4 months old. The other
one was one 2 years old. Two of these above families requested 0 to 18
months and the other family requested a 2 to 3 year old. One family, who
requested a 3 to 5 year
old, received a referral for a 4 year 3 month old. The girls are from the
Guangdong, Hubei and Anhui provinces. We expect these families will travel
in about 8 weeks. This batch of referrals were from 7/14 through 7/22,
2005 log in dates. The wait time from log in date to referral is now 13-14
months. There were no Chinese expedited referrals in this batch.

p.s. These are the referrals that we should have received Sept 1st and they
came early.
So these are considered Sept. referral group. BUT, the LID is July 15th-July
21st.

So...the wait continues to grow slightly. If the 14 month wait could hold steady, it would not be so bad for Dan and I. It would put us at getting Lauren's referral in May and traveling in the summer. Since Dan has the summers off, this would be ideal! It is all in God's timing!