Our First Update!

We received our first update on Claire today from Taiwan. We only received this one little tiny picture but it's so great to see something current. We wish we could know what she's thinking... our first thought was that she looks a little bit sad but maybe that's just how seeing pictures of her growing up makes us feel. Regardless, she's still a cutie and we still can't wait to bring our little girl home! It looks like any hopes we had of her coming home with long hair are out the window as it looks like they're keeping it cut really short. Taiwan in the summertime is very hot from what we hear so that makes sense.

Here are a few highlights from her update:

• She's working on potty training at home.   That's a good thing!
  
• She's still taking 4 bottles a day.   I think this is cultural... children there tend to stay on bottles and formula longer than children here. 
• Her favorite solid foods are watermelon and papaya.   Do they have papaya at Kroger? 
• It says she is "outgoing and adorable" and she "makes funny face to make people laugh".   Sounds like her brother! 
• It sounds like her language development is coming along well.   There is no mention of whether or not she is learning any English but we are not expecting her to have ever heard any English at all when we pick her up. 
• Other than that, it sounds like she's a typical two year old for the most part... some minor behavior issues that sound just like things Connor did when he was 2.   Nothing to worry too much about.  

And that's about it.   Everyone keeps asking if there's any news so this was exciting to get in the mail today.   We're still waiting to find out how our court process is going so we can travel but we're just 2 months past referral.   Typical time from referral to travel is 5-8 months.   At the absolute earliest we would travel late October / early November but it is MUCH more likely that we would travel in late December or January and quite possibly as late as February / March.   That seems like an eternity right now.... these past two months have just crept by. 

We're supposed to get an update about every month so hopefully sometime around late September we'll get another update.