Where in the World

It is really difficult knowing our baby is born but not knowing where she is.  All we know for sure is that she is somewhere in China, and she has no idea her little world is about to be turned upside down.

China is the 3rd largest country in the world in area, slightly larger than the United States. Most of the population lives in the east as much of the other land is covered by mountains and desert.  Babies adopted to our country tend to come from the southeast provinces.

Most likely she was born somewhere in the countryside and was brought to the nearest city's orphanage, called social welfare institutes in China.  More and more of the babies are living with Chinese families in foster care.  Wherever she is, we hope she is loved.

Adoptions in China are regulated by a government entity called the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA).  Here is a picture of the directors of our agency at the CCAA when they visited in 2005.

Here they are inside the CCAA offices with some of the employees.  Maybe right now our dossier is sitting on one of the shelves pictured!  Hopefully very soon someone will be brushing the dust off of it and matching us with our child!

Let's have some fun...leave me a comment and guess which province our little girl is in and what her birthdate is.  I'm going to keep my own guesses private for now.  Good luck!