Happy Birthday, LuZao!

Today (well, yesterday in China but I haven't had a chance to post until now) is LuZao's 6th birthday!  Even though we didn't bring her home, I will always remember her birthday.  I hope she got to celebrate in some small way!  We may go out for Chinese in honor of her birthday, but I'm not sure yet.  (We just had to buy a new washing machine out of the blue so the budget isn't looking too happy)

In terms of our progress, I have communicated with our agency but they didn't bring up the Article 5, so I assume that means it was picked up on the 13th as planned.  (No news is good news, right?)  We're sitting just over a week out so we could receive our TA (Travel Approval) any day, but it's likely to be another week or 2.  There was a bit of a backlog with the Chinese New Year and ours is at the tail end of that so I imagine it will be a little on the long end.  I am so ready to travel!  I'm not ready to see our bank account empty, but we knew about that part going into this.  ;-)