Gender Change

I mentioned a few months back that we have decided to specifically ask for a "girl only" from China instead of "either gender." Today, our agency has approved our letter that we can submit to CCAA to change our request. We will be signing this document and forwarding to our agency soon. They will also be sending a letter with our document to CCAA. More and likely we would have received a daughter anyway from China but just to make sure Madelyn is a girl since we are preparing for a girl, we wanted to write this letter.

Here's what we are sending to CCAA....

Our dossier has already been submitted to you and logged in as of September 9, 2005. It is still our most heartfelt desire to adopt a healthy infant child under the age of twelve (12) months age from within your country.

In our original letter to you, we had requested a child of either gender. After much soul searching, we have decided we would like to specifically request a healthy infant girl, as young as possible.

As we are already the proud parents of a biological little boy, we feel our family would be complete with the addition of a beautiful little girl from your wonderful country. It is with our humblest hearts that we make this request and sincerely hope that our dreams of becoming parents to a baby girl will be realized. We give our most sincere thanks for taking the time to consider our request.

Thanks, Karen, for helping us with our letter. And if anyone is wondering why this doesn't mention that I'm expecting more boys, it's b/c they are not considered "here" until they are born. (All pregnancies don't gaurantee there will be an increase in family size and if anyone knows that, we do.) Our updated homestudy after we move into our house will include the new family additions.