Here’s our Excel Spread Sheet with our data of the last 2-1/2 years: China Referral Timeline  (feel free to play with the numbers to suit your situation and share with friends)

Here is what our graph looks like now.  I keep thinking @#$% every time I look at it.  We are rapidly approaching our 3 year LID anniversary &*%$, something I never dreamed we would have to seen.  I still expect to wait till June 2011, $?@!.  In the mean time adoption costs go up from what we expected.

Look at that face.  We picked her up from her Grandparents Friday night and she said that she wanted to go some place she had never been before this weekend.  We’ve been meaning to take her to Beaufort where Becky grew up, so the next day we made a weekend trip.  As you can see from the attached pictures she had a blast this past weekend.

I’m sorry we haven’t been writing but 981 days of waiting has been emotionally draining and depressing.  Believe it or not Morgan has been the driving force for the second adoption she has it in her head that she wants a baby sister from China.  She says that she want to teach her everything she knows but she won’t change poopy diapers.  We explained to her that she had some real winners and she loves knowing that I had to deal with some of the award winning diapers.  She thinks it’s funny that I’ll have to change award winning diapers Isabelles.

Oooo favorite catch phrase “tighty whities” as well as talking about “tooting”, “burping” etc…  She’ll make some boy very happy one day.  I’m so proud.

Ok, back to details it’s 23 months and counting since our LID (Log In Date) of 10/09/06. The last referral group waited for 31 months or 939 days from LID to referral. Yes, it sounds like it is so close but in reality at the current rate its close but yet sooooooooo far away.  At this rate it will be June 2011 when we get our referral.  I may post my super duper spread sheet so that you can see the Horror of the reality I see and get depressed with me.  Waiting still SUCKS!!!  I think I’ll make a T-Shirt that says “Waiting SUCKS” in english and Chinese.

Pete’s Chart of Depression (or Doom)(or Gloom)

Yes, usually charts like this mean good things, something is growing. Unfortunately this chart means that our wait time is growing and growing and growing.

22 Months and counting we’ve been waiting for almost 2 years and I was worried that the Olympics were going to be a problem for us, Ha Ha silly man.  Morgan is growing like a weed, straight up with no end in sight and still as cute, smart and active as can be.  We’ve considered abandoning the adoption and raising Morgan as a single child, trying another country (I hear Taiwan has an adoption program), or just sticking it out.  As you can probably tell we decided to stick it out.  We’ve been holding on to the hope that maybe after the olympics that things will speed up but deep down know that it probably won’t happen.  Really we are torn

Well it’s 22 months and counting since our LID (Log In Date) of 10/09/06. The last referral group waited for 30 months or 919 days from LID to referral. Yes, it sounds like it is so close but in reality at the current rate its close but yet sooooooooo far away.  I could walk to China and still be waiting for our referral, and I walk slow.  At this rate it will be May 2011 when we get our referral.  I may post my super duper spread sheet so that you can see the Horror of the reality I see and get depresed with me.  Do you realize that if this adoption went as fast as Morgans we would have had Isabelle for over a year now.

Waiting still SUCKS!!!

Pete’s Chart of Depression (or Doom)(or Gloom)

Yes, usually charts like this mean good things, something is growing. Unfortunatly this chart means that our wait time is growing and growing and growing.

Waiting still SUCKS!!!

 Pete’s Chart of Depression (or Doom)(or Gloom)

Yes, usually charts like this mean good things, something is growing.  Unfortunatly this chart means that our wait time is growing and growing and growing.  Take two rulers and line each of them up with one of the lines on the chart.  They intersect off the computer screen and I’m talking about a widescreen monitor, how sad.  One of the things that this Chart is also telling us is that the age diffrence between our two girls is growing.  Morgan will be in College and Isabelle will be starting Kindergarden.  Ok I may be exagerating but they won’t be in the same school together.