A new friend of mine is in China right now. She gets her baby tomorrow....Oh my! Actually I just did the conversion and because it's already tomorrow in China she should already have her new child! She was scheduled to meet her at 10 a.m. Monday. In China right now it's 2:02 p.m.! Congrats to Kellie and Carly and their whole family! They have been together four whole hours! Hopefully they are done with the paperwork and snuggling in the hotel room!
Kellie's new baby's Chinese name is Lian Tian Shi, which means Angel. She was born on May 5th, 2006. Does her name seem a little familiar? Yes, Carly is from Lianyungang just like our Tian Xin. They were certainly in the same room together! So it is really fun for us to follow Kellie's journey and live vicariously through her!
Kellie is hoping to visit the orphanage and will try to visit our Tian and take some photos if she can! We are anxiously following her trip to see if she get approval for a visit, and then if they will allow her to see Tian. Our hopes are high that we might have new photos later this week, but we know nothing is for certain. I just appreciate Kellie being willing to try!!!
I am also in contact with a few other people who plan to travel to Lianyungang later this month. And am always looking for more...
I also promise to try to do the same for anyone adopting after us. We got early photos of Clio this way and they are very precious to us. We also had the privilege of taking photos and video of several kids waiting at Clio's SWI (that's Social Welfare Institute...i.e. orphanage) and got to be a small part of their journey's home. The connections we've made in the adoption community are awesome!
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Unfortunately, Kellie was not able to go to the SWI, so we did not get new photos of Tian. It was still fun to follow her journey. Other online friends Vicki and Marsha travel in Aug., so we will hope they will get to go to Lianyungang and our Tiany.
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