Study: Adoption and Self Esteem

For those of you following along, below is an interesting NPR spot on a Dutch study of adopted children. They looked at inter-racial and international adoption and found no difference in the self esteem of adopted children and biological children. It is a frequent assuption in the adoption community that adopted children will tend to have self esteem problems, so this study was encouraging.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16572430

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thank you Mannos family for our latest pictures of Brennan! It looks like it's getting pretty cold there. Hopefully our LOA will come soon.

Latest Picture of Brennan

Many thanks to our cyberfriends Lisa and Deirdre for taking this picture of Brennan during their trip to Nanjing for their daughters!

Catching Up

Hi everyone. It's us, the Caldwells. This is our blog. Hopefully it will keep everyone abreast of our adoption process. Brennan Xiao Caldwell is waiting for us in Nanjing, China. She's 4, she's cute and she's almost ours.

Here's what we have so far:

Feb, 2006 - We decided to adopt from China. The great "paperchase" began.

Oct, 2006 - We were DTC (Dossier to China)

Nov, 2006 - LID, or log in date. This is a big deal in the adoption community. Much hinges on this date.

May, 2007 - Matched to Zhang Xiao Nan (Brennan's Chinese name)

Sept, 2007 - We're LOI (Letter of Intent) This tells China that we want to adopt a specific child

This brings us to now. We're waiting for LOA. This is China's acknowledgment and approval of the adoption. We keep hearing that it should be here "any day now." So when it gets here I'll put up another post.