Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Referral!

We got the call!!!! Actually, to be more accurate, we called the agency before they called us (more details on that later). Her name is Yibai Jiang (soon to be Isabella Yibai Lin) from Guangxi. She was born on 8/12/07 and appears to be a very healthy girl. We'll get all the information from FedEx tomorrow.

So what happened is I (Rick) checked our Agency's site this morning and found the following message:
Bethany Christian Services just received 6 female referrals from Guangxi Province! Five are for our February 6, 2006 LID group and one is an expedited referral for a January 2007 LID. Congratulations!
Since our LID (Log In Date) was 1/11/07 and China often refers entire expedited months at a time, we wondered why our agency hadn't called us yet. So we called our case worker. It turns out she'd been in a staff meeting all morning and hadn't checked her email. So, she didn't even know until we called and prompted her to check her email!!

We'll share some of feelings/emotions later. We're busy calling everyone now! We'll post more information and a picture tomorrow.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Thats great! Can't wait to hear all the details! I'm so happy for your family!!! :)
Love,
Tiff

Mendy said...

Congratulations! Can't wait to see pictures. Our daughter was adopted in November 2006 and is also from Guangxi. Here is the link to the Guangxi families yahoo group if you are interested. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/guangxifamilies/

Beth Gasser said...

Hi! Since you're BCS and our SW told us the same info, I think we'll be traveling together. Our referral is from Guangxi too and we're off this morning to go see pictures. Congrats to you! That is so exciting to find out that way. I was in a dental chair under gas and novacaine (yuck). Smiling in MN.

Lisa said...

Congratulations!! We just came home with our little Guangxi beauty in March.