Were does the time go?????

Hard to believe I am actually saying this. In so many ways, with this adoption, I feel like time is standing still but the rest of my life seems to be flying by:
Happy 5th Birthday, Cole!!!!!
Wow, were have the last 5 years gone. It's very hard for me to believe my baby turned 5 today!!
He is very excited to be 5 but he did have some reservations about it. He was so cute last night when I got him into bed and I asked him how he felt knowing this was his last night of being 4 and that in the morning he would be 5, we looked up at me and told me he wasn't sure he was ready to be 5 yet and then told me how much he loved me!!! As you can imagine, tears were streaming down my face(good thing it was dark in there) God, I love him!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully he won't have too many more birthdays without his babysister!
We're waiting for you Ella and can't wait for you to join our crazy family!!!!!!

update....

We got some information from our agency to say that right now there isn't much that they can do, but once our LID gets closer to referral they will try again to get further info. So I guess for know this is the best that we can do.

On a much happier note, our friends Bryan and Angela got their referral yesterday for their beautiful Ella. I have to say she is gorgeous!! Congrats to both of you. We are truely very happy for you both!!!!!Can't wait to meet her in person.

from bad to worse.....

So, if 2011 wasn't bad enough we got worse news on Friday. Let me rewind a bit, we got a call 2 weeks ago that China was missing our passport pictures and that we needed to redo them and send them to them as soon as possible. So we did. I was worried though at the time as to why we were only being asked now since our file was supposedly out of review back in November. Anyway, we got a call on Friday that they have our new pictures and that our file will now be put in with the files they are working on now(end of Nov-first of Dec '06) so this means our LID has now changed and we will be waiting even longer. We contacted our agency and they are going to do everything they can to try and get our file put back to where it is supposed to go but most likely it will not happen.

This totally SUCKS!!!!! Friday was not a good day for me at all. I completely broke down on the phone with our agency. I understand it isn't thier fault but I'm really hoping they might be able to sway them to change their minds. China is what it is. They make the rules and we just have to abid by them.

Thanks Ang for totally listening to me!! It helped!!