Update on Evie!

We had requested an update on Evie, and our agency just emailed it to us!

She is now 22 pounds and 31 inches tall. She can walk on her own and say mama. Her favorite game is to throw things out of her crib. (Emily used to do that, too!)

Still no word about travel or anything. I'm hoping late summer/early fall, but I guess we'll have to wait and see!

All about Emily, Evie's big sister!

Emily, the Dandelion Fairy Princess!

Emily is a 9-year-old third grader. She loves ponies, soccer, reading, being outside, and ice cream! Her favorite color is hot pink. She has a dog named Ralph, two cats named Bigfoot and Cleo, a bunny named Bunbun, a fish named Rainbow, and three ugly fish she shares with Daddy.

All about Evie

We decided to look into adoption in September of 2005, and were considering domestic infant adoption. We went to a seminar by a local adoption agency, and did lots of research. We decided that we would like to sign on with Family Resources, Inc., and were accepted. After much discussion (mostly on my part!), we changed our focus to Chinese adoption. We began our homestudy, and started assembling our dossier.

While waiting for our I-171h to arrive, we started thinking about all of the waiting children - the ones with special needs. I felt called to adopt a special needs child, and Richard agreed with me. As fate would have it, our agency had just gotten in a new list of waiting children. We found Evie on this list! Her name is Guan Haihong, and she is living in the Dongguan Social Welfare Institute, in southern China.

Introducing: Evelynn Haihong Rosa!

Isn't she beautiful? I just love to look at her.

Evie's special need is that she was born with cleft lip and cleft palate. The wonderful doctors in China have repaired her lip, but she will need palate surgery after we bring her home.

Welcome!

Hi everyone!

Welcome!

I'm just getting this all set up so you can see what we're doing while we're waiting for Evie.

So far, this is our timeline:
1/18/06 mailed our I-600a
2/17/06 fingerprinted at Chicago USCIS
4/13/06 LOI to China!
4/17/06 received I-171h
5/04/06 received PA
5/04/06 DTC!

now we just wait for our Travel Approval. It can't get here fast enough!