Introducing...

We finally received our LSC!!! I came home from work yesterday to a message on our machine from our adoption agency. They didn't say why they were calling, just to call them back. Of course, at this point, it was after 5:00 and the office was closed. We pretty much knew it was either really good news (our LSC) or really bad (a problem with our dossier that would delay our approval). I tried calling and emailing our agency contact with no luck. To spice things up, we lost power in a huge thunderstorm around 6:00pm, and my cell phone died a couple of hours later. So when I plugged my phone in to my car charger this morning, I was thrilled to see an email that said our LSC was in. Hopefully it will get to us by the end of the week, and we can get our I-800 out to USCIS.

And now, without further ado, here is Mei Xiang Hua, soon to be known as Max LaBorde Maas...

And here is a picture of David seeing his baby brother's picture for the first time back in April.