Good News!

We've hoped for the last few months that we'd have our referral--information about the child we are going to adopt, complete with a picture!--by Thanksgiving. Today we called JOH to inform them that we have a fingerprinting appointment set for August 12th. Much to our surprise we were told that we'd be paper ready (and able to accept a referral!) by early September. WOW. It's all starting to sink in--this is real. We are so close to learning about the child God has for us in India. He or she is alive and just waiting for a family-our family. There is a mama, daddy and baby sister here in Ohio anxiously waiting on this little one. We've been praying for our Indian babe and his or her birth family tirelessly for more than a year now. And we are almost there. We know it'll be a long wait before we can be united as a family-- but we are so looking forward to learning about the region of his or her birth, studying the first picture we receive endlessly for clues about our little ones personality, and preparing ourselves to become a family of four!