Introducing Teresa Mei Dong Liang!

Teresa Mei Dong Liang!!!

Well, its official, we have been approved by CCAA to adopt this beautiful little girl!

We sent our request to them July 5^th - our agency forwarded it after translations on July 17^th, so that process *ONLY* took 33 days.

What now? Well we wait for a TA (Travel Authorization or Invitation to Travel). Although our agency says that will take another 1-2 months we’ve been reading on the internet that they’ve been coming about 2-3 weeks after the authorizations! So we’re hoping to travel in October!

Teresa was born January 13^th 2005 and resides in Hengshan, Hunan Province in China. The description we have (other than medical information) tells us that her favorite toy is a doll, she likes to sing and read picture books! The last update (at about age 2) is that she was 33.4 inches tall and 23 pounds!!!

One more step down and just a few more to go!!! I can't wait to hold her and put a smile on that beautiful face!

Welcome to our Journey to Teresa Mei

We started our Journey to Teresa Mei exactly 6 months after we brought our Taylor home, and as soon as China allowed us, our Dossier was submitted and logged in at CCAA (Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs) on May 28th, 2006. Here is Tayor in Florida by the pool!

We have been blessed with our first adoption and are thrilled to be expecting our second child, whom we've selected to name Teresa Mei and we will add her Chinese name as soon as we are matched by China.

So far the wait has been extended from the 9 months we originally planned on to 20+ months with the expectation that it will continue to get longer and longer.

Welcome aboard and enjoy the ride along with us as we wait and travel to China!