The first chart shows the size (in poll numbers) of the previous batches and this batch. Please remember each poll has to stand by itself, you can’t compare numbers from different polls. We can still get an idea of how the sizes of the batches have gone, but you can’t do a direct comparison.   [...]

Phone calls came at the 21 day mark this month. The last 12 referral batches arrived at 47, 22, 36, 28, 31, 31, 27, 33, 31, 25, 35, and 21 day intervals. You’ll note that the shortest intervals have been 21, 22, 23, and 27 days. So while it caught us by surprise, it wasn’t [...]

Phone calls started yesterday, let’s hope we see more of them today. Congrats to those seeing their child’s face for the first time! I’m seeing reports that some families with LID’s of the 11th got their phone calls yesterday. The “mistaken LID” thing occasionally happens the other way around. Since most of the agencies are [...]

We have reports of phone calls being made. If you are expecting a referral in this batch, or if you are in another program and would like to share your news in this month’s Babies! post, please list blog name and blog URL in the comments to this post. If your site plays music automatically, [...]

A European agency has it up on their site that the cut-off is the 10th. I’ve never known this agency to get it wrong, so I’m giving this rumor an R4 at this time. If we begin hearing from other agencies that will quickly jump to an R5. UPDATE: It’s now an R5 – cut-off [...]

I discussed Tween and Young Teen Book Series the other day, and we also got a lot of recommendations for books for the younger crowd on that post. As I mentioned, TwinkleToes is currently reading the A to Z Mysteries. These books are good for both girls and boys to read. The mysteries in these [...]