Soon to be called Emily Mei Chlebowski. She is 2 years old. She was born 11/13/2006 in ZhaoQing City, China. She is currently residing at the social welfare institute in ZhaoQing City, China. The name Emily is named after her grandpa, Emil, and the name Mei is chinese for sister-as she and Hannah will forever be bonded as sisters. We reveiwed her medical exam with our physician and requested pre-approval to consider her as our daughter on 9/24/08. We received the pre-approval from Beijing, China on 10/24/08. After the chinese officials reviewed our paperwork (Dossier), we received our letter of agreement for adoption on 1/5/09. We were fingerprinted at the United States Citizen and Immigration Office on 1/9/09. From these fingerprints, we are awaiting our final approval to adopt this little girl. We are awaiting the travel approval from China but without the form from the fingerprints stating we are approved to adopt Emily, we are unable to make an appointment with the chinese consulate to complete adoption in China. Our agency, Families Thru International Adoptions, is projecting us to travel around the beginning to middle of March. According to the chinese guidelines, Emily is considered special needs. She was born prematurely and had low birth weight (approximately 5 lbs) and is reported to have slow physical growth, which puts her at a smaller statute than the "average" 2 year old from China. Her developmental growth is reported to be on target according to the chinese medical exam and history. We asked for an update when we received the letter of approval. The orphanage told us that she was in very good condition. She is very smart and she can speak a lot (cantonese). She can walk and run on her own. She is very outgoing. She is always happy. They also state that when we receive our travel approval, we will receive an update on sizes and measurements. As far as the United States and the China governments are concerned-----SHE IS ALL OURS!!! Please help us to welcome this little girl into our family as we anxiously await our approval to adopt in China and our travel approval.
Hi Rusti! Both of your daughters are precious. I hope your fingerprint approval comes fast. You should have them soon, possibly this week or next. Keep on blogging, and have fun. I am sure our girls are playmates, and if I have then chance to ask about your daughter I will. From what our agency has told us at this time, they will not be making any arrangements to visit our SWI. I'm assuming this is just their "policy", so we may look further into a visit once we are there and with our guide. We will be getting ready to fly out in just two weeks!
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Wow! Great job on your first blog! Looking forward to following your journey to your beautiful daughter!! Jennifer
ReplyDeleteWOW!!!! I'm just so happy for you. How wonderful for you to be getting your second daughter. Hannah has grown so much since the last time I saw her. We will definitely have to get the kids together again when the weather is better. GOOD LUCK TO YOU!! I will be keeping my fingers crossed for you.
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Your daughters are beautiful!
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We have a 5 year old and are waiting for a little sister.
ReplyDeleteYour daughters are beautiful and I know you must be so anxious to travel.
Anxious is the word. Leaving Hannah behind for 2 weeks will be so hard for us. I am also anxious to see how the 2 girls react to each other. Hopefully we will be back from China for Hannah's spring break and that will give us a whole week together.
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