Okay, so still no local police clearance letter for us. Waiting... Waiting... Waiting... This is character building, right?! Can't wait for it to just get here.
Meanwhile, we've had another conference call with our social worker and determined that we won't likely be able to meet our mid- Sept. goal of traveling to Taiwan to bring Eli home. Even if the paper work came tomorrow, the time to get it to Taiwan, process it, get tickets and get there - too tight and very unlikely to work out. So, last Friday (August 24) we had to request new dates. Kinda sad, but necessary. We should be hearing back from our agency in Taiwan soon about the end of Sept or early October for our travel time. Likely early October bc there are several other families traveling at the end of September already, and our agency is small.
In good news, our skype session that had been canceled due to the most recent typhoon was rescheduled. Skype session #3 was tonight (August 30). It was short, but it went very well. They called 20 minutes late bc of internet troubles and we were only connected for about 15-20 minutes (instead of the usual 30). But it was really neat to re-connect with our little guy after having seen him and shared a meal, play time and all a few weeks ago. He definitely remembered us! :) He had the little orange phone we gave him and was talking to us on it. We read him the cute Waddle book and he remembered it from our visit. He read us an animal book with animal sounds (loved the elephant) and a book with ambulance and police car sounds. We showed him his new (from local yard sale!) farm play set and some cars. He loves cars! J played the accordion for him. He really liked that too. He was talking and talking (all in Mandarin Chinese, of course) and not very shy at all. It was so great to see him and his sweet smile. He's so adorable!
Really hope to have travel dates to share soon!
Don't laugh - I did my first load of 2T and 3T laundry. Oh my cuteness! His clothes are so tiny and cute! I didn't know that kid undies come in packs of 7 - too funny! J has painted his dresser - it looks great! And I'm going to be filling it with his clothes tomorrow. Yeah! :) This is all really happening. I'm washing tiny tot clothes.
*As of this post you are currently up to date. You know what we do about our process (well, mostly). We'll update from here.
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