Oh, Good Googly Moogly!

Friday, last week:

So, I'm waiting on our agency to send us our update on Q-Boo.

Every two or three months, our agency lets us request an update - we can ask 5 questions ("Tell me everything!" isn't a question?) and hope for some pictures. We accepted her referral in July 2011 and almost immediately got a new picture, we got an update in November 2011, and one in January 2012.  We've just gotten LOA and it's been roughly three months since our last update - I am DESPERATE for some news- so, I called my agency which joyfully agreed to ask for information.

This,as you know, is the "Oh, yes!" picture from her referral.
We are guessing that it was taken in January 2011 when she was about 6 months old.

Here she is on July 8, 2011, the day that we accepted her referral - her first birthday!

...about 16 months.

November 2011...

January 2012, about 18 months old- my favorite "baby" age - oh, I am missing so much!

It's been well over two weeks and nada. Not that it's their fault, all they can do is send the request to her orphanage and hope for the best.  Then, someone has to actually leave the orphange and go to her foster family to make this request.  AND somehow, I seem to remember that there is a Tomb Sweeping Day (Qingming Festival)  in China sometime in early April and I am sure that that has slowed EVERYBODY down. Seriously, these people take their holidays...well, seriously.  Photos are here.

It's nearly 1 am my time. I am alternatly skipping back and forth between Facebook and my email (not that this is so really different from any other time but humor me here, okay?) hoping desperatly to see something, anything, with her little picture on it.  I don't know how this would happen, it is WAAAY past closing time for my agency so even if pictures of my GORGEOUS daughter are on someone's computer somewhere, they're not exactly gonna get up from bed and send them to me, now are they?  I just can't get myself to give it up and go to my own bed.

Sunday, last week:

Q-Boo is fostered through Grace and Hope for Children

The board of G & H is on its annual trip to visit its foster families in China which means one thing to me - PICTURES.  :) So, as well as waiting very impatiently for my agency to send an update, I am also hovering over G & H's Facebook page, hoping beyond hope that they just happen to snag a photo of Lyric/Q-Boo/Naomi (they know her as Naomi.)  This is excruciating.  FINALLY, they are begining to post photos.  They've just posted pics of the kids in Yulin and the adoptive mommas are joyfully posting as they find their kids in the pictures.  Yulin is in Guangxi, about 4 hours north of Hepu. Q-Boo is in Hepu. Hopefully, the G & H staff is on their way there next, with their cameras out and ready.

I'm just gonna have to wait, as this is not an option.                        

I'm pretty rotten at kayaking (#41 and #57) and jet skies really mess up my hair (#116,) not to mention the fact that I HATE the taste of salt water.  Although, if this takes much longer, I may begin to consider it - I may have to dig out my goggles, adjust my Swimmies, and just swim on over there. I hear the Pacific is relatively calm. :)

<crosses fingers!>  Pictures soon!