Celebrating the milestones

I can't believe that I forgot to post these pictures from back on August 2.  It was our 32nd anniversary, and we had just found out that China had given us Pre Approval for Abigail Dawn.  Of course that morning we had already taken a CPR class and been fingerprinted (this first time for FBI clearance.)  Perhaps all the paper chasing distracted me.  Whatever the case, we celebrated!

We went to a favorite place of ours in Montgomery.  Tikvah likes to go here and listen to the people around us speak Chinese.  We are attempting to learn a bit of it, but so far she is the only one who has absorbed enough to catch a word here and there when she hears it spoken.

There have been many, many paper chasing days since that day in August.  We've jumped through more hoops than a circus animal, but here we are, pretty much finished with the paper work, and now we wait.

At last we have Pre Approval for MeiMei, and keeping to the pattern, we went out for a Chinese dinner to celebrate.  We are a little wiser, a little more tired, and much better with the chopsticks! This time we tried a place very close to our home.  The dining wasn't as pretty, for sure, but the food was REALLY good.

Ethan downloaded an app for his phone, so now it does panorama photos - sort of.  We look like we are in a time warp in it!

But you know, it sums up how we feel today, having finally arrived at this point.  We are tired, we are happy, we are giddy.  We are officially approved for both Abigail Dawn and MeiMei.  Whew!