Beast Update

As for the girls, they are wonderful. We had a scare with Fergie a few weeks ago. We had to take her to the ER vet twice, she was vomiting blood. This gave me flashbacks of Quincy, especially since it was the same ER vet we took him to when he passed away. She is fine now. Just a dog flu bug that was going around. She is so mellow that I check to make sure she is breathing every hour since she doesn't do much but lay around. She will play hard for an hour with her sister and then will sleep for hours. Just a Wheaten thing!

Annie is still eating everything....cell phones, remotes, my MP3 player, part of our dining room table. Last month she pulled a big ceramic cat dish off the counter and proceeded to chew it, there was blood on the tile, the couch and a part of the wall. It was like a crime scene. Smart girl she is, huh? I thought if we left her uncrated for an hour while we gone, what was the worst that could happen? Ha ha! And she never stops harassing the cats and Fergie. I can't for the life of me find the off button on her. I have met several other Goldendoodle and Labradoodle owners at the park, and they all say that their furbabies were just as big of troublemakers until they were at least two. If she does stop to take a two minute nap she usually plops her 50 lb body on top of her 30 pound sister with a thud. Not the politest mutt in the world. Did I mention her garbage fascination? She brought me a tampon applicator the other day. How nice!

We could be dancin' yeah!

David and I are still having an amazing time with our dance lessons. We have pretty much been concentrating on two dances....the Foxtrot and Salsa. As much as I love the Tango, you really can't find a place to dance it other than in the studio. You can Foxtrot to any slow song and can salsa anywhere down here. It's a great calorie burner and you can work up a sweat in an hour of practice. Our instructor taught us some fancy move the other night where I have to be bent in half while turning 180 not once but twice. I thought I was on the mad teacup ride after a while. I am not a born dancer, but we are starting to look better than we did before. Until a few weeks ago we looked like we were doing the Elaine dance from Seinfeld!

Time for the RQ roller coaster

People have compared the RQ rumors to the Charlie Brown-Lucy kicking the football cartoon. Every month there seems to be bad rumors, followed by good, followed by actual bad news regarding the amount of referral days. Referrals come out generally the first week of the month and are preceded by rumors the few days or weeks leading up to them. Yesterday a nasty rumor came from an agency that only TWO TEENY days are expected next week. Today the rumor is up to TEN DAYS which would be amazing. The more they do, the closer I get to an 08' referral!

In the meantime, D and I are keeping extremely busy! My calendar is booked up until the third week of August with baby showers, birthday parties, wedding showers, bachelorette parties and a trip to Orlando-Universal. And during the week we have ballroom lessons, adoption meetings and dog obedience. I highly recommend to anyone adoption from China to keep yourself so busy that you can't remember which day is which!

Ok, I am still a bloggy novice, can't for the life of me figure out why the font is twice as big at the end compared to the start of this post!

A speed up in 08'?

According to the Rumor Queen (all hail the rumor queen!) the CCAA just held a meeting with agency representatives. There was alot of good information that came out of that meeting but the two items that excited me the most were:

1.The CCAA feels that in 2008 they will be back to something closer to 15 days per month.

2. The CCAA hopes that families do not give up hope. Families waiting will get a child. They hope for patience and understanding.

So, there will be a child from China in our future and if they do get back to half months starting in January, but continue with 5-7 day months until then, that still puts us with a referral by next Christmas. I hope they keep their word. They haven't been spectacular when it comes to that, but I will take any shred of hope I can get!

14 down, anywhere from 12-22 to go.

On Sunday our official wait turned 14 months or 427 days old. As far as gestation periods go, if I were a giraffe I would be ready to pop out my little bambina. But I'm not a giraffe. So the wait goes on.

You know you have been waiting too long......

Top reasons I know I have been waiting too long for my child from China

1. Those Baby Einstein DVD's I bought may be as obsolete as the 8-track by the time we bring her home

2. I am going to have to see if any international flights offer senior citizen discounts for us

3. The baby name I choose, because it was unique and #843 on the popularity list, will be in the top 5 names soon.

4. I am afraid to paint the baby room in case the paint completely fades.

5. I am going to have to buy an additional carry on suitcase for our hemorrhoid and memory boosting medications.

Anyone think of some more?

I'm back!

Alright, alright, I am back to the bloggy world! I may have lost all my readers, but here goes.

I decided to let me deflated ego take a break for awhile a few months back while we were waiting to get out of the review room. Well, guess what? WE ARE OUT! Only 4.5 months of review room anticipation. Of course, the CCAA decided to slow way down once they got to our month. Figures. I have been a nervous wreck for months on end, but as each day passed without a call from our agency asking for more info, I figured no news is good news. I was right. Whew!


Hmmmm.....what else has been going on? Oh, Ana and Ron got their referral for Gigi. This is one SERIOUSLY CUTE KID! Ana's shower was this past weekend and they should be heading to China in July.

What else, oh...not so fun news, David and I have to redo all of our adoption paperwork in order to get a new 171H (the document that allows you to bring in a foreign child into the US). Luckily, a good deal of it may be free this time around. And at least I know what to do this time!

Oh, and I met two other adoptive mom's to be in Maryland last month. I am hoping that we will be traveling together to China since our dates are very close!

Now some pictures of Gigi and of Gigi's mama at her shower last weekend!