Okay, most of you have no idea what that means. DTC is an acronym for dossier to China, and is a huge day/event for those folks involved in an international adoption from China. After taking a year to put our dossier together, it is finally on it’s way to China, the next big step in our adoption. I got an email late this afternoon from our China Case Manager informing me that UPS had picked up our dossier. The next step is for the CCAA (the China Center for Adoption Affairs) to log it in, thus giving us our next important step, our LID (log in date). We are hopeful this step does not take too long. However, the Chinese New Year is about to begin, so everything will be shut down in China for about a week. How’s that for timing?
Angie drafted a letter to our little guy last weekend for inclusion in a care package we’ll be sending him next week. Our case manager translated it and sent it back to me by email. I sure hope he can read it, because it’s gibberish to me!!! Of course, that’s what English will be to him, I’m sure, at least to start with. Boy, will we likely have our work cut out for us in teaching him a whole new language, alphabet, etc. Needless to say, we’re lining up all sorts of resources before his arrival.
We’re still waiting on our new I-797C from the Immigration Service. It’s only been a week, but that’s long enough for us to open the mailbox with hope each day!
In the meantime, we continue to prepare…….Since we don’t know his hobbies or interests yet, we’re setting up his room in a Georgia Tech motif. No particular reason other than we have loads of little GT knick-knacks, dolls, flags, fleece throws, paintings, etc. At least it will give his room a starting theme, although we will likely change this upon his arrival or soon before/after based on his personality and/or interests.
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