A little progress today...

Heard from America World late this morning, they now have all the paperwork they need from us at this point and they are waiting to hear that our social worker approves of us pursuing this child. The agency gal told me we should be hearing from our social worker so she can ask us a few questions about the child's condition.

Finally heard from our social worker as I was picking the kids up from school. She asked me to convey to her the child's medical issue and what research we have done. She said she had no issues with us pursuing a waiting child, she just hadn't heard anything about her. So all is well there. The social worker is going to e-mail the gal at AW and let her know she approves us.

So where do we go from here, into a little bit of a scurried seek and discover from the way it sounds. When I talked to the gal at AW this morning, she said that the little girl is still available at this point. She said once she knew we were approved she could forward us what medical/health information they have and the additional 3 photos they have of her, YAY. I can't wait to see more pictures of her - I'm going to have a hard time waiting till tomorrow. Once we receive the info, we have 48 hours to let the agency know if we are interested in doing a full review of her, meaning we take what info we have to doctors to have them review it. I'm pretty sure we'll go to that extent unless there is something really surprising in there that they didn't put in her mini health status. I have a specialist in Chicago ready to review her info and pictures with regards to the nevus and there is a local pediatrician that is from China that we will take her info to for his review as well. We have 2 weeks to complete the full review, though the ultimate goal is for it to take as little time as possible as there is a chance that another family could be doing the same. Upon the results of the doctors recommendations we have to make a commitment decision, then they can close her file to their clients (she will still be on other agency lists) and we will get a letter of intent to adopt put together and to China. Then again we wait to see if we get an approval letter from them.

Please pray this is all meant to be!