New Pictures of Calli!

We received the last update we will get on Calli this past weekend! Our agency requested our final update back in January when we got our LOA, so I have been stalking my email every day since then! We haven't had new pictures since December and we have just been dying to see our sweet girl's face again!

She is getting so big! Her hair is growing, which we knew Kendall would like. :) She is 18 months old now and we also were given updated measurements. She is 24lbs and 31 inches tall, which puts her in 18-24 month clothes. She is in a shoe size 5.5 or 6 and she has 6 teeth! We can finally start picking out clothes and getting her packed!

She is all bundled up - that is just the way they do things in China. She lives in southern China, and it is typically about 70-75 degrees there during the day right now. Of course that must mean scarf weather! :)

We think she must still be living with her foster family because this looks to be the same place she was when we got the pictures in December. Sometimes children will be sent back to the orphanages when the orphanage gets word that a family has their LOA, and we weren't sure if that would be the case for Calli or not. We just know so very little! But we are thankful to see she is in the same place currently.

So what's next? Well, we are on Day 8 of our Travel Approval wait! Those have been coming in anywhere from as early as day 7 all the way to like 4 weeks. We are certainly hoping to be on the shorter end of that wait! We would love to hear that we have TA this week, apply for a Consulate Appointment, get our visas and plane tickets next week and leave as soon as April 4. It all depends on when we get this TA though, so pray that that comes quickly!! We are more than ready to go get our little girl.
Also, please continue to pray that God will prepare her heart for when we come to get her. I know I've mentioned this before, but this will probably be a very terrifying experience for her and we are praying that her foster parents, or whoever is caring for her, are showing her the pictures we sent of our family, telling her that a "mama" and "baba" are coming for her, and helping prepare her heart. We know it's best for her in the long run, but in the short term I just get so sad thinking about taking her from the place she's known most of her life and doing anything that would make her scared. Please pray with us about this.
So that's all for the final update! These are the last pictures we'll see before we hold her in our arms! Can't wait for that day!