Article 5

Sometime while we were sleeping last night, our Article 5 was picked up from the US consulate in Guangzhou, China. This means we are now finally and officially waiting on travel approval from the Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs in Beijing. Our (fairly conservative) agency says to expect it to come in 3-7 weeks. From what I've seen on adoption forums online, 2-3 weeks is pretty typical right now, so we're hoping for that. Once travel approval comes, our agency can set our appointments at the Guangdong province civil affairs office and at the US consulate in Guangzhou, and then, at long last, we will actually be able to tell you when we're going to China to bring Max home. I picked up our passports with our visas to enter China this morning, so we are ready to go. Now perhaps we should paint his room and assemble his crib...