TA and Birthday Surprise!!!!

What an AWESOME, long awaited day this has been! I went in to work to find an email from Ann with pictures of Madie's birthday party! Oh how sweet she is..... I turned into mush and cried for hours! Lunch time came around and we received our Travel Approval and we leave for China Wednesday, Nov. 30th.. just 19 days- ahhhh!!!! I am beyond excited and so thankful to all my friends and family for all of their love and support of the last 3 1/2 years. God has been so faithful to us and we are so blessed beyond anything we could ever deserve. I give him all glory and praise! I believe he will do amazing work through Madie and my boys!

Blessings,

Tammy

Update Pictures Received in July

Here is an updated picture we received in July- she is 7 mos old here. She is absolutely gorgeous and boy does that smile melt this mama's heart! I can't believe she is already 12 mos old now! We cannot wait to see some new pictures hopefully next week! I think I am caught up on the blog as much as I can. Come on TA! I am ready to hop on that plane!

INTRODUCING!!!!

Wei Li lan

{Madison Rose Li Lan Comer}

Born: November 9th, 2010

Province of Guangxi

Currently at: SWI Laibin City-Xingbin District

Catch Up!

Our baby girl is in Southern China - Guangxi - City of Laibin




Well - it has been so long and I am absolutely terrible at keeping up with this blog! So much has happened since October last year. After much prayer and discussion we decided to switch to the special needs program in China. We started the paperwork which took us till June to complete due to the restructuring of the program with our agency and new requirements from China. Our agency told us they expected us to get matched within 6 months from the final conference call we did with them on June 24th. We were matched on the following Monday when the new list come out, June 28th with a beautiful 7 month old little girl from Guangxi Province in China! We were instantly in love from her. It has been a whirlwind since then. We received our Provinical Approval July 6th and then had the terrible, horrible, 72 day wait for our LOA {letter of acceptance} that arrived on September 9th. This is China's official word that she is ours! That was such an exciting day. We then had to file our I800 with the USCIS here in the US and that was approved on September 23rd, just 2 weeks later. Our paperwork then had to be sent off to the US Embassy in Guangzhou and we were cabled on October 5th and it was then picked up on Wednesday, October 26th and sent to Beijing to the CCCWA. That is where we are now- 10 days into our Travel Approval wait. I was so hoping to receive that today! I think we will get it next week. Our travel group with our agency is scheduled to leave on November 30th so I have been praying really hard for us to get this. God has been so faithful through this whole journey- I know that he will continue if it is his will. Each step has been harder than the last. I just really want my baby girl to be home. Her 1st birthday is November 9th - next Wednesday! I am so sad that we cannot be there with her to celebrate. We are sending her a birthday cake through Ann of Red Threads. She is going to try and get us pictures of her party with her friends and caregivers. She was not able to get an update or pictures when we sent the last care package last month. I just know she has changed so much and it saddens me that she is growing up without us! Just 25 more days until we board an airplane- God willing! I don't think I am going to sleep much between now and then. Pictures to come:)

Update

They have now sent referrals with LID May 18th, 2006. I am very anxious to see if anything changes after we get out of May 06 LID's. The numbers have dropped off so much because of the wait. It is very sad that people are pulling out of China to go to other countries, but it has also opened the door for many special needs children to find their families. I have big, big hopes that it is going to speed up and we will have our Madie home soon. It would be a prayer answered if it happened by the end of next year! I can't believe it has been over two years that we started the process. It has gone by fast, but I just want this wait to be over! Sometimes I think it is more than I can stand. God has gotten me through this far and I know he will give us the strength until she is in our arm. Lord, please let us go and get our little girl.

I Love you Madie! Mommy

Three of the most handsome guys I know!

Summertime!

The CCAA has now placed babies for LID's through April 26, 2006. I was so hoping it was going to be into May by now. My heart has been so heavy the last two days. I really want my baby girl to come home:( It was 2 years ago on June 24th we sent our preliminary application to our agency. I can't believe it has been that long already. At times it feels like it is creeping by and other times it feels like it is going really fast. This is not easy, but I know God will get us through and oh how sweet it is going to be the day we see her face!

This is my favorite time of year! I love the sun, cookouts and beachtime! Me and Justin went to Ohio for a family reunion last weekend with my mom and dad, brother and his family. We had a good time. Corey is busy with ball tournaments and Father's day is this weekend. So busy, but I love it:)

I am so looking forward to vacation! We leave for Florida on July 3rd for a week. This is a much needed vacation for all of us:) Hopefully we will escape the oil spill. That is such a said situation. The ocean is one of my very favorite places and it breaks my heart that millions of gallons of oil is out there. I pray that it is fixed soon and they can start the long clean up process.

Hopefully there will be better news to update from China in a couple of weeks. They should send referrals again around the 7th of July.

Tammy