Update -- Hello again

I just wanted everyone to know that we are in the waiting game for a LID (log in date) at the CCA (government adoption agency in China). Our papers were received on 8-14-2006, so we hope that the LID will be around 8-28-2006. We won't know for sure though until we have that letter in our hands (about a month). We can use this LID to track what is going on with our adoption on the CCA website (http://www.china-ccaa.org/frames/index_unlogin_en.jsp). It can be found under the documents processing section in the lower right hand corner.

After the LID comes reviewing our application. This is an even longer wait, but that is what the website specifically talks about under the documents processing section. Currently they have finished reviewing all douments with a LID of 11/30/2005. Yes, that means it will probably be about 9 more months until we are in the matching room.

Once the review is finished we go to the matching room to finally be matched with our child. I have heard rumors that they match you based on a passport photo you submit (I certainly hope not!) or the likes you have written on your application. Who really knows?

After the matching room, they send us our referral and we decided whether or not to accept her.

Then it's placement time!!!! Yippee!!! This is finally where we get to go over and hold her for the first time. Yes, I'm excited................but patient in the wait because I have SOO much to do in the mean time.

Currently the CCA has finished placing all children up through 7/22/2005. That's a little more than a year (about 12 mo. 3 weeks) in front of our paperwork. So, we expect to probably get to meet her sometime next September or October unless things speed up.

We would like her to be as young as possible and have found others that have actually gotten to take them home at 8 months (we thought that she'd have to be that old at referral). I'm very exicted about that. With this in mind, I think that she'll probably be born around February or March. We are praying for her mom and dad right now as they are making these tough decisions and their health.

Her dates seem to fall very close to her aunt Christina (due in Jan. or Feb.), her cousin Jessica (due in Jan. or Feb.), and her other aunt Sherri (due in Jan. or Feb.). So, she could POTENTIALLY have 3 other children very close to her age to play with..................if we ever get to leave TX again to see people (lol).

That's it for now. I just wanted to keep you up to date. As I said before, I'm not stressed out about not having a LID yet or anything like some others I know. I know that I'll have one and it will hopefully be a time close to or before now. By the time I find out it won't matter when the date is at all. I'm just starting to keep posted with the CCA stuff, but I won't even watch it really close until sometime next summer.

Thanks,

Terri for the Casebier's

Prayer requests:

1. For her parents and their decisions/health

2. For the CCA in their placement of all these little children (there are many others, young and old, special needs, and non-special needs) into the correct homes.

3. For Gary and I to work hard on our marriage and parenting skills during the coming months to be as prepared as possible for our addition.

4. For Gary to find a job........as he still has not been placed in the school system for this year.