Alex in the snow

Alex in the snow

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Good News - Approved!!!!

YEAH!!!!! We are now APPROVED to adopt En Yang. We just need to send our contracts to FFC and Taiwan and then we go to the last step which will be the final adoption. Hopefully, we will be traveling to Taiwan in May or June to bring him home!

We also found out yesterday (that's when our agency found out too) that he was not returned to his foster mother at the end of the summer because he was too bonded to her and already did well when he came to America for the 5 weeks (he cried for the first three weeks). So when he went back to Taiwan, they told him that he was going to be adopted by one of the families he met in Maryland and that he was going to live at the orphanage until we can pick him up. The orphanage is beautiful and he rooms with another boy in the same situation, but I feel so bad that he continued to grieve for his "mother" when he returned and I wasn't there to help him through it. When we do pick him up, they feel like he will go more easily with us. At this point, he know we are adopting him and knows that the care packages we send every month are from us. So he has lots of toys and books and tons of photographs! This wait is going to be torture for me!!!!