Doing the RA happy dance & introducing our Zane!

We are completely AWED and thrilled - WE RECEIVED OUR REFERRAL APPROVAL (RA/LOA - 3:47 p.m.) from Ch*na today!!!!!! It has been just 46 days since we first laid eyes on our Zane and were prepared to wait at least 1-2 months longer. The arrival of our approval has our heads spinning! My SIL, Alicia, has been fervently praying that we would be in China for Zane's 1st birthday, September 1. I told her that this would be miraculous and that she should start fasting every day for that kind of speed! :) We have been encouraged by her enthusiasm and faithfulness and blessed by God's graciousness. We don't know why this happened so quickly....maybe because our dossier has been in Ch*na for a year and a half and had made it through some review or was higher up in the stack (???) or maybe because we are under the old adoption agreement vs. the new (Hague) one, but all honor and glory and praise goes to our heavenly Father who has every part of this journey, our paperwork and our boy in the palm of His hand. "The mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps." Proverbs 16:9

So without further ado...here is our boy, Zane Leland Wolfe!




And here are those dimples I blogged about... :)



We think we can see one on his right cheek and then there's a shadow of one on his left -- we will know, very soon! Isn't he just a handsome little guy - such a sweet face, happy eyes and a good heart - that's what we see in our boy! We are so very proud of him!

Because Elle and I are out-of-town visiting friends, Eric will sign papers arriving via FedEx tomorrow, then overnight everything to me, I'll sign and then overnight everything to our agency for the Friday deadline to get out to China this week. Then, we wait again -- waiting for travel approval. Our agency rep said that we should prepare for August travel and the latest being the first part of September.

It was a bummer to not be with Eric today - but we rejoiced over our cell phones and sat in stunned silence too! Elle and I took a pic together to celebrate our RA and dear friend, Alice, jumped up and down and screamed with me - ahhhhhhhhhh! Such a marvelous day!

Please continue to pray for our Zane, our travel approval, travel plans, medical preparation and all those details.... In my quiet time tonight, I will also be praying for all the families still waiting for their precious children - that God would continue to move the mountains to bring their babies home.