Welcome to our little piece of the world wide web. 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 I am that we listened to that prompting) We returned from China in January 2010 with our daughter Faith who is now 4 years old. Our blog "Faith in every footstep" recorded our journey to her. Now that we are home, I use this blog to record our family adventures, and hope to print it someday. Our hearts are filled with joy and wonder and gratitude to our Heavenly Father for the many blessings we 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 and gratefully we have been led to believe it is not degenerative.
Welcome Home Ivy,.. Continued
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Beautiful sign designed by Claire Crago. Thank you Claire! Wish that you,
Mom and Dad had stayed to see us!
Patiently waiting. I don't think she even loo...
FRUSTRATION
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*Sums up the last few days pretty well. After we received our TA on Monday,
our Social Worker received an email that there was a problem with my name
match...
New Year, new chapter...
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Happy New Year everyone!! Gung Hay Fat Choy!!
I haven't been on here in forever, but I assume I will be on here a lot more in the next few months as we star...
Merry Christmas!
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We survived her first Christmas, jetlag and all! Only thing is we got zero
pics! Great huh? Little too tired to care I guess. I was so very surprised
how w...
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
a f...
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
like th...
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
can get on the bus and head for the airport. Our flight leaves Guangzhou ...
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
went on...
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
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
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