DTC!!!!!!!!

We just got the wonderful news that our dossier is on its way to China.. and probably arriving there right now since its Monday morning in China! We were DTC on 4/5/07!!

Now What?
We continue waiting!! We will wait for our paperwork to be logged in (Log-In Date or LID) and from then we will wait for our Letter of Acceptance (LOA). The LOA typically comes 3-4 months after your LID. It's a simple form that requires just a check mark (accepting the child) and your signature. Once it's sent back to China, your Travel Approval (or TA) comes about 2-3 weeks later. And then we travel!!

So we still have a 3-4 month wait ahead of us. Here are my predictions:
Let's say we are LID 4/20th.. (that would be about 15 days for LID which follows what recent LID's from our agency have been)
The current wait time for LOA's is 80-140 days after LID! So let's just say we get an LOA on 7/27.. which would be about 98 days. (We waited about 85 days for Esther's TA last year)
Then about 3 weeks later, we'd get a TA putting us at 8/17 (which means I can go on my Haiti trip.. just means I'll miss the first few weeks of school)
And then travel a few days later, putting us at the week of leaving 8/20-8/27..

So.. those are my current predictions.. we'll see what happens and how close I am to these dates! The best case scenario would be getting a TA at 80 days..and just maybe we would travel in late July. Or.. we could get TA at 140 days and then we'd be looking at travel in September and even October!! Yikes!!