We have found her!!!

After such a long process, and so much searching, we have found our little cricket. Her name is Qu Le Yong, and she lives in Guangdong province. She is four years old, turns 5 on August 15th. We can't post pictures of her yet, as we don't have approval from China for the adoption, so, until that happens, all I can tell you is, she is so adorable, and has a very interesting story.

We dropped off the rest of our documents for state certification, and then we can complete our dossier and send it to China. The agency that she is listed with is Small World Adoptions. I feel pretty good about them, but, don't know as much as I will after doing more research. They come highly recommended by other adoptive parents, so , that is always a good sign.

Once our dossier is ready, which will probably be about a month or so, we will have to wait until it is approved by China. I will be looking into how long that is currently taking, but, I am thinking we will be waiting through the summer. We will miss her birthday, but, I am praying that we can at least have the pre approval in time for us to send her a birthday present.

I just can't express how much I love her already. I just can't stop looking at her pictures.

She is one of the two little girls that were on the Special Needs list that really don't belong there. She is healthy, happy, growing normally, and get this, she loves to pretend her toy cars are Police cars and she is catching the "bad people". For now we will call her Le Le which is her pet name in the orphanage, but, will choose a more permanent name. In Chinese, the name the orpahanage gave her, Le Yong, means beautiful music. She loves to sing, and make up her own words to songs.

Ill post more about her as I sort through all the referral information, but, for now, Im doing the Snoopy dance.