You have such a cute blog (my first time stopping by). Your daughter is adorable and I love the pig-tails! You guys are so blessed to be moving so fast, if you don't mind me asking what agency are you with? Congratulation on your LOA and your little girl real soon.
To answer your temple question: the adoption is final in China so you can go to the temple and be sealed anytime after that. We even considered the Hong Kong temple with our adoption of Kai (the current temple president in HK is from where I grew up in Hawaii) but his health wasn't up to the additional time in China...and we ended up traveling without all our kids- so it turned out to not be an option.
Your kids over 8 will need recommends and other than that, you can go whenever you want. I bought white Chinese style dresses in China for all of our sealings (they were too small for my big girls for Kai's sealing) and a little suit for Kai for his sealing.
It is really exciting to think about! And it is such a great day! Your family will remember it forever.
Faith International was one I was looking into before deciding on All God's Children in Portland. We ended up finding Gavin on AGCI's private SN list so I feel we were drawn to them for a reason. We live just north/east of Bellingham.
Welcome to our little piece of the world wide web! A little about us ~ I am Dawn,and my husband is Jeff. We have five children. When our youngest was 10 we prayed to see if our family was complete, we were prompted to adopt.
(How grateful we are that we listened to that prompting) We returned from China in January 2010 with our daughter FAITH who is now 5 years old. This is our blog "Faith in Every Footstep." Now that we are home, I use this blog to record our family adventures and daily school pictures of our little peanut! Enjoy~
Faith's Chinese name is SiSi. The character Si means "to think, consider"
Born not from our flesh but born in our hearts you were longed for,wanted and loved from the start!
About Faith Hengsi
Yang Hengsi was found by local poeple at the gate of the orphanage of Hengyang City on July 13th 2007. She was estimated to be about 5 days old. She was diagnosed with hyperthermia and hospitalized. (In July, when she was found, the temperatures reach 105 degrees.) We believe she was left out in the heat for an extended period of time. Local police did a lot of searching but failed to find her birth parents, as nobody claimed her, she was sent to be raised in the orphanage at 24:00 hours being July 14th.
In China she had been diagnosed with hydrocephalus from a CT scan. This diagnosis was inaccurate; we know this because of the MRI she recently had here in the states. She does have a birth defect with her brain tissue called Agenesis of the Corpus collossum.
7 in heaven, #sprinklejoyforivy
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At 7am our family will head to Ivys home church to clean fo...
Why Yes, we are still here!!
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I have sat down to write this post so many times over the last 6
months....that's right...6 MONTHS! Every time I sit down to write it, I
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Happy New Year everyone!! Gung Hay Fat Choy!! I haven't been on here in
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12 year old girl, SWEET!
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Please take a look at this beautiful girl from June's SWI! She has spina
bifida and uses a wheelchair. Look at her beautiful smile! She is ready for
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First Night Home!
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The Infamous brown envelopes that you can not open or they will be null and
void and your child will not be able to come into the US! (or something
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Our guitar hero
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Isaac LOVES music and was singing all the time in China when we first got
him. That continued once we were back in Canada and he always wanted to
play Ell...
Zai Jian from China!
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Well, here we sit. Suitcases packed, waiting for 4:30 to roll around so we
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Heng Yang City
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We had Donovan for about 3 days when the opportunity to go and visit the
orphanage had come up. We were not all able to go unfortunately so Kendall
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Hengyang city has 805,000 residents and is just over 2 hours south of Changsha by road. Hengyang was traditionally known as the ‘goose city’ because of the number of geese that migrated through it. It’s also the leading transportation centre of Hunan, linking water, rail and highway routes.
Adoption Timeline:
Mailed 1st application to agency: 02/09 Changed agencies: 04/24/09 Mailed 2nd application to adoption agency: 04/24/2009 Application accepted from agency: 04/27/2009 Mailed Homestudy paperwork : 04/30/2009 Emailed LOI : 05/01/2009 1st Homestudy: 05/11/09 2nd Homestudy: 05/11/09 PA: 05/13/09 3rd Homestudy: 05/28/09 4th Homestudy: 05/28/09 Homestudy mailed to agency 06/05/09 I-800A mailed to USCIS 06/08/2009 Fingerprinting done 07/13/09 I-797C received 07/22/09 DTC!!! wired 08/03/09 LID 08/12/09 LOA 09/30/09!!!!!! I800 approved 10/23/09 NVC cabled paperwork to consulate 10/31/09 Article 5 11/17/09 (that was a hard wait!) TA 12/07/2009 Travel Dates 12/30/09-01/15/10
You have such a cute blog (my first time stopping by). Your daughter is adorable and I love the pig-tails! You guys are so blessed to be moving so fast, if you don't mind me asking what agency are you with? Congratulation on your LOA and your little girl real soon.
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ReplyDeleteA girl needs bodyguards!! And how cute are they?? SO happy for him.
ReplyDeleteWhat a treasure that you will have that connection for her!
ReplyDeleteAnd it is exciting to see more darling little boys united with their families.
Kim
To answer your temple question: the adoption is final in China so you can go to the temple and be sealed anytime after that. We even considered the Hong Kong temple with our adoption of Kai (the current temple president in HK is from where I grew up in Hawaii) but his health wasn't up to the additional time in China...and we ended up traveling without all our kids- so it turned out to not be an option.
ReplyDeleteYour kids over 8 will need recommends and other than that, you can go whenever you want. I bought white Chinese style dresses in China for all of our sealings (they were too small for my big girls for Kai's sealing) and a little suit for Kai for his sealing.
It is really exciting to think about! And it is such a great day! Your family will remember it forever.
Kim
Faith International was one I was looking into before deciding on All God's Children in Portland. We ended up finding Gavin on AGCI's private SN list so I feel we were drawn to them for a reason. We live just north/east of Bellingham.
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