Sooner than expected

So very excited!  After being told we wouldn't hear anything for at least 2-3 weeks and settling for the fact that we wouldn't get our news until after Christmas, imagine the excitement when the phone rang after only ONE WEEK, and 5 days before Christmas.  Here I was thinking we would get through the holiday celebrating with all the family and such and then would have to wait for an email.  But, that's not what happened.  Pleasantly surprised, we got a phone call, not an email, and before Christmas.  What a lovely surprise!  The lady at our adoption agency was so excited that we had gotten a response from China so quickly that she had to call herself instead of just forwarding the email like she usually does.  God is SO GOOD!  We got our pre-approval from China.  Now, this beautiful little girl whose pictures I stare at each day and whose video I could watch over and over and over again.....she is ours.