We love this face!!

She has the cutest face. She was born on 10/27/2010 and is from the Zhangshu SWI in Jiangxi Province. She is only 7 months old!! We are all in love, including the boys who want to bring her picture to school. We hope to travel ASAP so we have so much to do!

Introducing Leila Meimiao!!

Words can't describe a day like today. We received the call from our agency at 12:20 this afternoon. Within a few hours we were looking at her beautiful face. We're in love!!

We're In!!!

We just heard on RQ's website that we made the cut off this month!! We can't believe it. We never thought we would be in. Now we are just waiting for the phone to ring. Pleeeeeaaaassseee let the phone ring tomorrow!

Easter 2011

We all had a great Easter this year. We actually went out for brunch with brothers, cousins and grandparents; which we usually never do. It was nice for a change to go out and relax and not worry about cleaning the house, shopping and cooking. Mike would actually tell you he does most of that anyway- and he's right. We can't wait to have our daughter/sister with us when the Easter Bunny visits next year!

Our Daughter's First Baby Blanket

Last Friday April 1st, RQ reported that China has completed matching for LID's through June 15, 2011! We have only 13 LID's to go! Even though there are many things we cannot buy without knowing our daughter's age, size, etc; I wanted to celebrate by getting something so I bought the softest, prettiest baby blanket I could find. This will go in the care package we send to the orphanage after we receive our referral. We can't wait!

On Saturday February 5, 2011 we attended a Chinese New Year Party sponsered by our adoption agency. A close friend and her two little girls came with us. We had a blast! The boys enjoyed the shows put on by all of the performers and as you can see above, my youngest Camden loved trying on the Dragon Costume. It is year of the Rabbit and we can only hope that referrals will be quick like a bunny. (Sorry couldn't help the corny analogy)!

It looks like China has completed referrals through June 2, 2006. This means we are officially in our month. Although there has been much speculation as to when they were going to send referrals, they did send them out before the Chinese New Year. We have been "pregnant on paper" for many years now and so it seems surreal that we are actually in our month! No matter how many times I see this picture it never gets old. This ultrasound picture is certainly different from the one I had with the boys but just as meaningful.