Chapman

We began our paperwork for Chapman in late January of this year.  Four months later, all of our documents were signed, sealed and delivered to China!  WooHoo!  So thankful this part is behind us!  We received word that our paperwork officially arrived on someone's desk on Friday, May 13.  The email from our agency simply said "Congratulations!" and then it stated that our job now is to sit back and WAIT.  Imagine.  Adoption is ALL about waiting.....you wait on one thing and then you have to wait on another thing!  Many have asked if it has been easier this time being that it is our fourth adoption....it isn't.  And even though we have five children who are constantly keeping us on the go, our sixth child, Chapman, is always on our minds.
We miss her.  We want her here with us.  And we are constantly trying to figure out when we will most likely travel to get her....really, that is wasted time on our part because until we are on that plane with our seatbelts fastened, we won't know.  In the meantime, we did get 12 pictures of her last week and she has grown SOO much!  She is precious in every sense of the word and she has the thickest black hair of all!  She looks so happy in all of the pictures and she looks as if she has a bit of a sweet tooth!