Liliah's Pad: Happy Gotcha Day

We've Been Waiting:

Making our Way to Miah:

We are very close to receiving out TA (Travel Approval) WHOOP, WHOOP!

April 23: All Hague adoption paperwork is complete. US Consulate will issue our Article 5 to China (CCCWA) within 10 days.

Happy Referral Day: February 21, 2013 (we waited 1 year, 6 months, 20 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes

LID - March 26, 2012

DTC (dossier to China): March 9, 2012

USCIS Approval: February 13, 2012

USCIS Fingerprinting visit: February 7, 2012

Dossier completed: January 2012

Chinese Consulate mailing: December 2011

Paper-chase began: August 1, 2011

Talk to our Agency: July 2011

Decision to begin the journey: Father's Day 2011

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Happy Gotcha Day

One year ago today, this was Liliah's first real eye contact with us. She was calm, but you can see the concern in her eyes and that her wheels were turning. We never experienced any obvious grieving with her. One of the traits her foster mother made in the notes was that she was easy going. The above clip is our first meal together just a couple of hours after we met.

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1 Year later . . . what a transformation

You finally settled on your pose

Happy, Happy Gotcha Day

Miss Liliah YingXia (yeen saw)

Daddy & Mommy love you to the moon and back

4 comments:

Dawn said...: Happy Happy One year...I remember following your trip, and I cannot believe we still have not gotten together in one year!!! Enjoy this special day!; January 13, 2010 at 6:17 AM
W,M,M,A Davis said...: Happy Gotcha Day (plus one day). Liliah was, and is, so precious!; January 13, 2010 at 9:25 PM
Courtney said...: Happy Gotcha Day!; January 16, 2010 at 9:59 AM
Kelly Kinkel said...: How blessed we are to know Liliah. What a sweet little girl. She looks like she was having fun taking the pictures!; January 17, 2010 at 9:59 PM