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The Newman FamilyThe Newman Family Welcome to the Newman Family blog! We invite you to join us as we adopt our first child from the Peoples Republic of China!Saturday, March 10, 2007 Referral We finally received our referral on March 6, 2006! Lola is an adorable ten month old and we are delighted to say the least. Her referral paperwork states that she is healthy, quiet, ready with a smile and crawls well on hands and knees. Our travel meeting is on March 17th. We will meet the thirteen other families who will travel with us to Guangdong, China. There are also thirteen families traveling to JiangXi, so hopefully we will meet up with them in Guangzhou, where the U.S. Consulate is located. We are anticipating travel sometime in late April or early May. Hopefully, we will be with our baby to celebrate her first birthday on April 30th. posted by Edelweiss13 at 5:26 PM | 4 comments Friday, November 03, 2006 the paperwork redo begins.... So here we are, the much talked about paperwork-redo. Thought we were done with all of this BS one year ago. Whod have known an autobiography and fingerprints could "expire". Well, thats our government for us. All moaning and groaning aside, the Homestudy redo paperwork is done and will get sent to our social worker today. Then, we will redo the immigrations paperwork. The last set of referrals were issued to families yesterday through August 25, 2005. As a reminder, we were "logged in" on October 14, 2005. So, how many days of families till it is our turn (smells like smoke, oh it is my brain trying to do math) 49 days ahead of us. No telling how long it will take to get through them. This may make no sense so someone who isnt/hasnt adopted from China. The word on the cyber street is that we could expect to see our referral, ie.picture and info about our baby, as early as January. Now that would be a pretty nice birhday gift! posted by Edelweiss13 at 5:36 AM | 3 comments Thursday, October 26, 2006 one ...