Our Dossier is on the way!!

Our dossier (doss ee' aye) is completed, and was mailed to our adoption agency this evening!!! This is a huge milestone, as it represents the completion of most of our paperwork, and the entering of the waiting stage. If you're curious about what exactly a dossier is, I'll give you the lowdown of what just went into that precious envelope:
1) An application letter to China explaining who we are, why we are adopting, and why we want to adopt from China. And, that we will never abandon a child we adopt from there. 2) certified birth certificates for Rusty and I. 3) our certified marriage license 4) A completed physical examination for both of us with letters from the doctor explaining anything out of the ordinary. So, we had to have a letter explaining why Rusty had a tonsillectomy when he was 5... and numerous letters about all my infertility treatments, and other quirks. 5) our financial statement accounting for every penny we have, and every penny we owe 6) letters from both of our employers stating our job, our salary, and the likelihood of our continued employment 7) our home study (which required just as much or more paperchasing) 8) Police reports for both of us confirming that we have a clean record 9) a document from the US immigration allowing us to bring our daughter home 10) passport photos 11) an 8 page scrapbook of our family with specific photos required of us and our home 12) copies of our passports.
Let me also say that almost every one of these documents (except for the photos), after being collected from the appropriate authority, had to be notarized, then sent to the Secretary of State in the state in which it originated (So for Rusty's birth certificate, it went to Texas...) After the Secretary of State verifies that the notary who signed the document was a legitimate notary at the time of notarization, each document has to go to the Chinese consulate that has jurisdiction over that particular state to be validated. So, we have worked with 4 states, and 3 consulates.
We've also been fingerprinted twice, had background checks from the FBI, KBI and child abuse and neglect registry. We've been tested for HIV, and everything else including TB (surprise, Rusty contracted TB somewhere overseas!). We've also had our home inspected, and have written our autobiographies. Now that we've got our paperwork done, we can start reading the 5 books required.
While this has been a whole lot of work, it has been worth it all for the sake of bringing our China doll home! We're so excited to be at this point! We've been told that we have about an 11 month wait before we can go get our girl, and she will be about a year old when we get her. It's possible that she has just recently been born!