My boy can do anything!!!

For those of you who didn't know amputees could run, jump, hop, swim and just about everything else normal I can think of .... Look at my Boy Timothy..... He can do it all!!!

snow for Christmas

We got snow on Christmas and it just kept coming. It is still hanging around here. Snow, snow, go away!!!

Baby shower for Timothy

This was our son Timothy's first introduction to most of our family. He was still so Tiny then.

how it all began continued

As I said before we thought we wanted to adopt from China and thought we would have a happy, healthy baby girl within at least a year. No problem, right? So we waited and waited and saw the wait times grow and grow. In the meantime we discussed what special needs we might consider. Looking at the photos of children waiting just about broke my heart and at times did make me cry. I kept looking at our then agencies special needs list and in January of 2008 came upon a little boy that made my heart do a leap. His name was Chu Xin Shun, and they called him Shun Shun. He was about 9 months old when we started looking at him and had a special need of limb deformity. Basically, from what we could tell in the photo he was missing most of both of his feet. For some reason (probably God) this didn't scare me, I was smitten with this child. I showed his photo to my husband and didn't say anything, just waited for a response. To my delight he felt the same pull I did, that this was the child we had been waiting for. So after calling our agency and jumping through all the hoops they wanted we submitted LOI for Xin Shun and on Feb. 14,2008 we got Preapproval for him. What a wonderful Valentine's Day that was. Me, my husband Scott and our daughter Emily had all fallen in love with this little boy a world away in Xuzhou, China and already felt a strong connection to him. That was just the beginning of a wonderful ride.

The first photo we saw of him

We fell in love with him the minute we saw him. Those eyes, we just knew he was our son. Thank you God, you are good!!!

How it all began........

In the fall of 2005 my husband and I heard of a young couple that was thinking of putting their unborn baby up for adoption. I had a daughter by a previous marriage and my husband thought that was enough for us but little did I know, the adoption bug was about to bite. After finding out this couple would keep their baby we both woke up one day and said, "I still want a baby". After looking at fostering, domestic and all sorts of routes to parenthood we decided to look at internation adoption. We signed on with an agency that said the wait was about 6 months and might even be shorter. Our dossier was logged in Oct. 16,2006. Then the wait began. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=874ZRB5AP7PU8

Waiting for PA

I haven't put a lot out there yet because I am still afraid we could be turned down. We have been waiting since last week for our PA for a little boy from our son Timothy's SWI and are hoping to hear good news soon. The wait is hard but I am praying God prepare our family for whatever the news is. This little boy has a need similiar to Timothy's and we feel we could provide him a great loving family but it is in the Lord's hands. We just want him to find his forever family and are still hoping it is our family. God is Good, all the time!!!!

fundraising

We are hoping to start a fund to help with the orphanage donation. Chipin.com has an event fundraiser for just this sort of thing. You can pay with your paypal account. Hopefully, I can research this and get one started for our little guy.

Christmas spirit

Timothy and Emily Christmas 2010

She is the apple of her brother's eye, can't you tell? She is so good with him and he loves her very much.

Our first son Timothy

This little angel is our son Timothy. He is our 2nd child, first son and first adopted child. He is absolutely wonderful and we adopted him in 2008 from China.