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.