My Best Estimation

The CCAA needs to cover 24 more calendar days to get to us and they covered less LID's/calendar days last month (Here) than they had in the last 5 months.

As I had posted in February (Here), CCAA would need to cover at least 12 calendar days for me to feel 'secure' that we will be in the April/May batch. Backing up: Last month CCAA was 35 calendar days away from the day our paperwork was logged in, in China (LID -Nov. 17, 2005). That actually divided out to 11.66666666666 calendar days needing to be covered, each month, for us to get our picture at the end of April, beginning of May. Hence why I said 12 days in earlier posts.

They covered 11 calendar days last time (though Oct. 24, 2005), but if they cover at least 12 days this month (Oct. 24-Nov. 5th) and next month (Nov. 6th -Nov. 17th), it's within the realm of possibility that we could get our picture in the April batch.

I am hoping for the best (April/May!) but will share w/ you what I am expecting. Since the CCAA covered less calendar days last month, I expect we will not get our picture of Mattie until the May/June or June/July batch. OK, it's only a couple of months - and at the same time it feels like that is SOOO much longer.

We should be hearing something about referrals soon...there are several families who are 'due'!