Sooner than we thought???? How we got here

After you complete all your dossier paperwork, it is then sent to the China Center for Adoption Affairs(CCAA) and they make referrals in order that dossiers were received. Our paperwork was logged in on Nov. 22, 2005. As of today, they have only matched dossiers received before October 13, 2005. So how have we come to receive our referral???
On January 19, we got a phone call from the Waiting Child Coordinator at our agency stating they have a file of a child we might be interested in. Early in the process you fill out a list of conditions that you would be willing to consider accepting and we had expressed an interest in being considered for a special needs child whose conditions met our requests. We never expected to get a call that they had a child who matched our description but out of the blue the phone rings (at 8pm on a Friday when B. was home not only with A. and X., but also with one of my friend's 2 boys as well). This child's special need is a cleft lip and palate. All we really knew was she was about 10 months old and her lip was surgically repaired in China. We spent the weekend talking to people who have children with cleft lip and palate and by Monday we were ready to move to the next step. That Monday I called the social worker as soon as they opened in order to get more specific information. Her name is Mei, she was born in 2006. She has been living in a small city in the Shaanxi province (the same area the Terra Cotta Warriors are). Her lip was repaired at age 3 months in China. Our social worker emailed me pictures that afternoon and let us know her file was on it's way to us. X and I spent Tuesday waiting for the Fed Ex truck to arrive. At 1:15, the truck pulled up and we received the file. To our surprise, there was not much in the file that the social worker hadn't already told us. On Thursday we took the file to our local children's hospital to have it reviewed by the International Adoption Clinic and on Friday we took the file to her pediatrician. Everyone thought she "looked good" and that there were no "red flags" beyond what we already knew. We called the agency to tell them yes then we frantically began to get all our new paperwork together. It took almost all day but by Friday our new paperwork was on it's way to the agency and our formal acceptance packet was on it's way to us. We did more paperwork and at this point everything is on it's way back to the agency and hopefully will be sent to China on Friday Feb. 9