I had been planning out a post for when we were finally DTC, but in my excitement to finally hear from the agency, I posted something quick. My planned comment was this: After eight months of paper chasing, fifteen months since our first adoption seminar, twenty-two months since the last of the "baby work-up" and fifty-four months since deciding to have children, our paperwork is in China (at last). We bought the duck in Chicago after attending an adoption seminar about China adoption.