Libby Doodle Doo -- Speculation

So my referral for Libby Doodle Doo may be right around the corner. I can't help but speculating about little E and wondering about a thousand details about her -- how old will she be? from which province will she originate? what will she look like? Etc? Etc? Here are my predictions/guesses:

Age/Birth date -- Little Zo Peep was born in the year of the Horse. I believe that Libby Doodle Doo will be born in the Year of the Dog -- since horses and dogs are extremely compatible signs. From what I understand the people who match children with families look at the Chinese zodiac to confirm if they have a good match.

If Libby Doodle Doo is born in the Year of the Dog, her birth date will fall between January 29, 2006 and February 17, 2007. Since my age is closer to 50 than 40 (sigh), I'm guessing that the Chinese authorities will match me with the oldest child they can. So I suspect that my little Libby will have a birth date closer to the beginning of the Year of the Dog than at the end.

In July of 2006 when we were on vacation, Little Zo Peep announced, "Libby was born today in China." That date was July 8th, 2006 -- certainly a Year of the Dog birth. If E's birth date is close to that date I will be very freaked out. (Note -- a couple months later Zo Peep revised her prediction date to July 28, 2006 -- trust me if its ANYWHERE in July 2006, I'll be speechless).

Province -- The big 3 provinces for referrals are Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi -- all in the South. Other areas that have regular referrals include Anhui, Fujian, Chongquing Municipality, Guangxi, Hubei, Jiangsu, Shaanxi (This is where Little Zo Peep was born), Sichuan, Yunnan and Zhejiang.

Rarely seen (but still occurring) are Beijing Municipality, Gansu, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Liaoning, Ningxia Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Shandong, Shanghai Municipality, Shanxi, Tianjin Municipality, and Xinjiang.

My psychic daughter has a prediction on this subject too. I was looking at a list of major cities in China. Z came over to the computer and pointed to two cities saying, "This is where Libby was born and this is where she is living." Oddly both cities were in the same province -- Lianoning - in the northeast (and one of the rarely-referred provinces).

My prediction: I think Libby Doodle Doo will come from one of the big 3 -- probably Guangdong. So I'll have a northern girl and a southern girl.

What will she look like? I once heard the saying, "Every parent thinks his child is beautiful. And every parent is 100% correct." So I already know that my new baby girl will be beautiful -- that's a given.

But being the anal-retentive, leaving nothing to chance person that I am -- I wanted my girls to look like each other. So I included a page containing 8 photos of Z in my dossier in the hopes that the Chinese officials would match Libby to look like her. I'm not expecting a Z clone, but my hope was that the girls may have at least a little bit of sisterly resemblance.

In general people from northern China are bigger and taller than people in the South (of course there are always exceptions to every rule).

For example, Z(from the North) is already in the 75th percentile on the American charts for height and weight. I know some adopted children her age from Southern China who are not even on the American growth charts. So if my prediction of Libby Doodle Doo coming from the South comes true, the girls may have very different statures. So my hopes center around their coloring, their eyes, their face shape and other facial features.

Here are the 2 key photos of Z that I put in my dossier -- her referral photos. Time will tell if Libby will bear any resemblance to her big sister.

>>> And the "time" in that "time will tell" is rapidly approaching. YIKES!!!!