Amy Kratzer: Happy Birthday Madelyn Fei!

Madelyn's Adoption Timeline

11/1/10 Decided to adopt a waiting child from Thailand
11/13/10 Child from Thailand was too close in age to Cailyn. We found out we could not adopt her.
11/14/10 Changed to the China Child of Promise Program
1/6/11 Mailed application in order to start home study
1/25/11 First Home Study Meeting
2/5/11 Second Home Study Meeting
3/5 Adoption Parenting Workshop #1
3/12 Adoption Parenting Workshop #2
4/14/11 Final Home Study Meeting
5/10 Saw Madelyn's Picture on Holt's Waiting Child Photolist
5/25 WC Committee chose us to be Madelyn's family
5/27 Home Study Finished/Letter of Intent for Madelyn submitted to China
6/7/11 Mailed 1800A
6/15/11 I-800A logged in
9/16/11 Dossier to China (DTC)
9/20/11 Dossier Logged in (LID)
11/9/11 LOA
12/8/11 NVC Letter Cabled
1/6/12 Article 5
1/23/12 Travel Approval (TA)
2/15/12 Left for China
2/19/12 Madelyn Became Ours