How the Matching Room Works

So many have asked and wondered how the CCAA (China Center of Adoption Affairs) determines what baby we get. Actually, it is some process! First, our dossier went through the review room over a year ago. From there it goes to the matching room which will remain there until they get to our log-in date of July 14, 2006. Currently, the next referral batch is for February 2006 (slowwwwwly getting there) ;-).

It's very peculiar, I think, how the matchers match families and babies. First they look for something that stands out: a matching birthday, a baby who looks a lot like a parent --any blonde-haired chinese babies?:-), a baby who likes music and a parent who teaches music, sometimes they match by bone structure of the baby's face and the parent's faces, which is why they need a picture of our passport photos, and some use chinese astrology. Once they've matched they then start to look at things like age of child requested; however, the age of child is not a priority for them because they feel they are matching families and not filling orders.

Now with that all said, I know that the baby we get is ultimately up to God. In fact, He already knows who she is. Her mommy, daddy, and brother all have brown eyes so we will have that in common ;-). As I've said many times, we already love Kylie so much. We praise God for impressing upon our hearts to adopt her.

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." (Psalm 139:13-16)