Aiden's journey started back in early October, 2007. After finishing a special needs update to our homestudy in anticipation of adopting another special needs boy from China, our social worker directed us to a special needs list with WACAP out of Seattle. We were intrigued by a boy named Yuan Peng and started to gather information about him. It did not take long for us to feel that God had led us very specifically to this boy and we began the paperwork in earnest. We filed our application for the I-171H and started preparing our dossier. Any of you who have been through our previous two Chinese adoptions with us know how we waited and waited for that precious I-171H. Well, the irony with this adoption is that that document was processed very quickly this time and it was issued weeks before our other documents were completed.
We were approved by WACAP as prospective parents around the first of December. We were preapproved by the China Center for Adoption Affairs (CCAA) on December 21st. What a wonderful Christmas present. Our dossier is currently at our adoption agency awaiting transport to the CCAA. We are hoping for a log in date on or about February 1, 2008. We will have a 3 to 5 month wait for our confirmation letter, another month for travel approval, then another month or so to prepare to travel. Of course, we are hoping for the shortest waiting times all the way around so our hope is to travel before the Olympics. However, we have done this enough to know that we have very little say in when we travel. S o we will trust in God’s perfect timing. We just want to bring Aiden home to our family as soon as possible.
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