No, it's not an exaggeration either. We were notified Monday that our agency had a girl for us to consider. Robyn and I saw her picture and fell in love. She's beautiful. And perfect. Here is what we know about her: She is 17 months of age (right now). She was abandoned in the city gardens by her mother (who left a note) and discovered by a policeman. She is albino and (from what we can tell from the pictures we have) has violet eyes (not completely red, so there is some pigment there – which is good news if it's not just a bad picture or trick of the light). She's healthy and happy and needs a family. We were allowed to choose her, and choose her we did. She's simply beautiful and if you look at Robyn and my pasty white skin, you'll see that she's going to fit right in.

I've shown her picture around here at work and it always make me laugh when people go: "…wait… She's Chinese right? Why is she blonde?"

From the indications that we have now (which may be completely wrong, btw) it appears that we will be traveling in early January. We're taking the whole family with us, I know, it's an EXPENSIVE proposition, we're really going to have to work on our financials to get this done, but none of that matters. I just want to hold my baby girl.