9 Months!!!

We have now been waiting 9 months for Ava. It's hard to believe that we are already creeping up to the one year mark. There is an online site that uses the current wait times to calculate when you will get your referral. Right now it is predicting that we will receive our referral for Ava in May 2009...at the earliest!! My heart sank into my stomach when I saw that date. Recently the CCAA announced that they have opened all orphanages in China to International adoption. Previously only 1/3 of the orphanages we're able to submit paperwork for the children to be adopted internationally. It's too soon to see how or if this will speed things up any.