On August 23, 2006 we received the call that we have been waiting for since April. Our Dossier (paperwork) was complete and was ready to be picked up. We we're so excited that we both left work and drove to Columbia, Maryland to pick it up. We took pictures of our Dossier and went to Kinko's to make copies, one for our agency in Texas and one for us. We spent over an hour in Kinko's making 177 copies. We could not unstaple any packet so it was very time consuming. When we we're done we went straight to Fed Ex to have it overnighted to Texas. Great Wall surprised us with a phone call to let us know that our Dossier was being sent to China on August 25, 2006. We we're extremely happy because we did not think it would be sent until September 1, 2006. With the wait times as long as it is right now even a week is a big deal. We went to The Cheesecake Factory to celebrate the end of our paperchase and the start of our official wait for Ava. We are now waiting for the China Center of Adoption Affairs to inform our agency of the date our Dossier was logged in (this is known as our LID). Today the CCAA posted to their website that they have matched children with families with log in dates up to August 9, 2005. This basically means that we will have about a 13-14 month wait before we will receive our referral for Ava. There is always the possibility though that the CCAA can speed up or slow down.