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Waiting for Referral
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The Wait

We submitted our adoption application on April 1, 2005 and China received our adoption dossier on August 30, 2005. We received our referral call for Chloe Jun Li on December 1, 2006. Therefore, our wait from the date our dossier was logged in China to our date of referral was 15 months.

December 2005

Being Floridians, we were lucky enough to go to Disney for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Michelle, her mother Sheri, and Neil had a very special dinner at Yachtsman Steakhouse in Disney’s Yacht Club resort on December 23, 2005.

Aside from the excellent food and ambiance, we noticed one precious Chinese toddler playing at another table. We were captivated by her happiness, as well as her ability to entertain herself with two dinner rolls all night.

The dinner was one of our most memorable events of 2005. Remarkably, we learned after our referral that Chloe Jun Li was brought to her orphanage on that very same day. She was 1 day old.

Yacht Club


Yachtsman Dinner


China Pavilion at Epcot


Chinese Garden at Epcot


Us with Grandma Chris & Grandma Sheri
at Saratoga Springs


Beach Club


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