Almost there!

I just got an email today that our Article 5 paperwork (our last bit of paperwork) was picked up and is on it's way to the CCCWA (China Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption).  This means we are officially in the TA (travel approval) wait!!  Our agency says 1.5 to 3 weeks is the average wait, but just recently we've been seeing a lot of families getting TA in 6 days!

We also found out this last week that our second attempt at getting Asher a care package was successful!  Our sweet boy finally knows he has a family coming and what we look like.  I hope he will be able to recognize our faces and this will make the meeting and transition a little less traumatic for him.

We are getting so close and it doesn't seem real yet.  I'm not sure if we will be home for Thanksgiving, but we will for sure have our son in our arms by then!  It's also very surreal that in a month we will be hopping on a plane (something I haven't done in almost 9 years), and taking a 15-18 hour plane ride to China.  We are very excited and I'm starting to feel a little nervous.  Please continue to pray for us as we will have a lot of things to get put together after we receive travel approval.

I will leave you with the video we recently received of Asher playing.  It brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it.  God is so good!

~Carly