Introducing our daughter......

Name: Sun Huai Ping (孙怀平), now Anna M. D.
Birthday: 02/01/2006 (2006年2月1日)
Located: Hangzhou Children's Welfare Institute (浙江省杭州儿童福利院)
http://journeytomyanna.blogspot.com/2008/09/we-got-daughter_5054.html

Timeline
05/05/2008: Applied with Adoption Agency #1
08/25/2008: Switched to Adoption Agency #2
09/17/2008: Referral! - Connected with little Anna
09/18/2008: LOI; 09/23/2008: PA; 10/23/2008: I-800A approved;
10/31/2008: DTC; 11/07/2008: LID!!!
02/09/2009: LOA!!!!!; 03/16/2009: TA ;
03/23/2009: Gotcha Day; 04/01/2009: CA; 04/03/2009: Home

China Adoption Acronyms:
LID - Log in Date; DTC - Dossier to China
SN - special needs; NSN - non special needs
LOI - Letter of Intent (used in the SN process)
LOA - Letter of Acceptance, the document that allows you to officially accept a referral;
TA - Travel Approval; CA -Consulate Appointment

Sunday, May 3, 2009

One month home

One month home

On the day we met her
整整一个月前的今天,安娜跟我们回到了家。 这个月过得好快啊,可是同时也觉得安娜一直就跟我们在一起。六个星期前的星期一,一个胆却的小女孩儿走进了浙江省民政部办公室。 她以前从来没有见过我们,当她看到我们时,她显得腼腆,内向,还有些害怕。 当她的阿姨离开时,她哭得是那样伤心,想从我紧紧抱着她的怀跑中逃走,而我们恰恰相反,在六个月前,就开始一直看着她的照片和录像,早已把她视为己出, 融入心底。如果说这一天的到来有什么变化的话,那就是我们爱她爱得更深了。今天,这个小女孩儿是如此大方快乐,整天喊着爸爸妈妈哥哥姐姐。 真难以想象没有她生活是什么样子的.
It has been exactly a month since we returned home with Anna. This month went by so fast, yet it already feels like she has been with us forever. Six weeks ago on a Monday, a shy little girl walked into the Civil Affairs office in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. She had never seen us before, and when she met us that day, she seemed timid and a little frightened. She did not want anything to do with us when her nanny had to leave. She cried so sadly and wanted to escape from us while I was holding onto her. We, on the other hand, had seen pictures and videos of her and had fallen in love with her for six months already even though we had never met her. Now, this same little girl doesn’t want to be away from us. It is becoming difficult to remember what our life was like without her.

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