USCIS & Timing until our daughter

A couple updates...

We got our fingerprint invitations from USCIS today, but they were scheduled for a time when we'll be out of town. So we'll have to reschedule, and I don't know how that will affect timing.

Now, as far as our wait for our little girl. Today I emailed with the wonderful woman from our agency. I was talking with her about the age of our baby when we get the referral. Right now we are listed for a baby girl under 12 months. If we want to decrease the age, this would increase the wait time. If we leave the age as is (which I think we're leaning towards, even though it kills me to think of missing over a year of her life), it is thought it will probably be 5-6 months until our referral and 3-4 months until we go to pick her up. So I am thinking maybe 10 months until we hold our little girl (August 2009) - a little longer than a pregnancy. We pray for her every night at dinner. It is touching to think each day that this might be the day my daughter is being born into the world. I pray for her and her birth parents. Tonight Dylan asked if I have his sisters in my tummy. I explained that we are adopting them and how Daddy and I will go on an airplane to pick them up. He said he thought his sister would be bigger than him. Then he said "she will be my friend." Justin and I melted.