Timeline


Apr-11 Homestudy began
Jul-11 Signed with Holt
6/28/11 Found Jospehine, but another family is
currently reviewing
7/13/11 Received information for Josephine
to review
07/20/11 Asked for additional information about
Josephine's development
08/20/11 Filed I800A
08/23/11 Received additional information from her
orphanage and asked to hold her for me
08/24/11 Josephine went off Great Walls list to Holt
08/26/11 Sent LOI (Letter of Intent)
9/2/11 LOI uploaded in china
9/7/11 Got fingerprinted
9/29/11 800A
10/14/11 DTC (Dossier to China)
10/18/2011 LID (Logged in Date)
12/14/2011 LOA!
02/03/2012 Article 5 Pickup
02/16/2012Travel Approval
03/13/2012 Travel to CHINA!!!!!
03/29/2012 Homecoming


Friday, June 29, 2012

One year ago

One year ago yesterday I first saw Josephine's picture. We headed to the beach a few days later and I constantly checked my email waiting to see if the other family that was reviewing her file would bring her home. I remember sitting on the beach watching Madalyn play wondering if the little girl in the picture would be her sister.

It was over two months later that I knew she was to become a Bergeron.

Now, just one year later, she is no longer an orphan in China. Instead she is ours to love forever! Right now she is laying on my chest, sucking her two fingers, watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with her sister and me.

She now walks around the house smiling and playing. She points to her high chair and says "eat eat". When asked for a diaper, she grins, quickly toddles down the hall and proudly returns with a diaper. Then she runs off for a good chase before having her diaper changed.

So many changes in her little life! So many things I'll never know about her first two years. But I do know somehow she was blessed with a tender heart and an amazing a ability to love...animals and people.


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have been following the blog. I'm so glad they are doing so well. They're both adorable -Lauren