Moving along....

So this week Mark and I both walked into the St. Louis immigration office and had our new set of fingerprints done.  Now that USCIS has our fingerprints we are just waiting on the official approval letter to come in the mail.  This is very exciting as it is the last piece of paperwork we need before all of our paperwork goes to China.  Yipppeee!!!  We are hoping to get approval in about 10-14 days.  Then we will send all of our paperwork to the Chinese Embassy in Chicago for authentication and it will be off to the agency.  At that point we will officially be DTC (Dossier To China).  Once our paperwork is in China our agency will start looking for baby Hendricks!!!!  Ahhhhhh!!!!  That means we could be seeing pictures of our little one in a month.  Wow, that really caught up with me.  Thankfully with a 3 year old already at home I haven't been able to obsess with this adoption as much as I did with the last adoption so it seems to be going faster in my mind.

On another front we also found out today that whatever issue there was with Mark's birth certificate seems to be resolved, b/c they picked his up from the Embassy today and had no difficulty at all getting it authenticated.  I just can't even begin to tell you how big of a relief it was to get that phone call.  So this weekend I will review all our paperwork once more before taking several items to get state certifications next week.  It is hard to believe we are getting to close.  Now if only I could get Mark to start talking baby names : )