Grace

After some deliberation and family discussion we have decided to name our new daughter "Grace". She was almost a Molly, a Isabella or a Hazel.  We actually all voted and came up with Hazel (which was my granny Hite's first name and I really love it), but the name just seemed a little too old for our little pumpkin.  Grace just seems a better fit.  We will also keep her given Chinese name as her middle name, which is Siqi.  

Here is a video of Grace at her orphanage care center.  

Bring on the hair bows!

Sorry I haven't said much on our blog lately.  Waiting is hard and my guess was that you didn't want to hear me wallowing in the wait.  However with much excitement and joy - we would love to introduce you to the newest member of our family...... 

SiQi (which means think of fine jade) turned two in May on our anniversary (which we are happy to share with her!) She is living in an orphanage in Luohe City in Henan province, which is also the same province that Matthew is from.  We have been able to see a couple of videos of her, which is an amazing gift.  She seems very sweet and it looks like we will have the opportunity to sponsor her at the special care center that she resides in at her orphanage until she comes home.  We are still working on her american name (any suggestions??) and we don't have a good idea when we will travel to bring her home.  My best guess is in the spring.  I promise to post more soon. We have some more paperwork to do and a care package to get together!!

Halloween 2014

Matthew and his best buddy Kaden

Matthew at his first preschool Halloween party

Shelby's VW pumpkin

Dossier Logged In (LID)

Found out this morning that our dossier was logged in.  So now we are down to the BIG wait - who is our next child?  I thought for sure we would have been matched with a child by this point, but now nothing is standing in our way, except time. We could hear today or even a year from now, my best guess would be within the next 6 months.  

Dossier to CHINA!

Our paperwork finally left for China on Friday.

Green, my favorite color

Today as we got ready at the bathroom sink - I looked in the mirror and said 

"mommy needs to color her hair."  

Matthew:  what color? How bout Green? It's  your favorite color! 

Dossier Completed!!

After 5 1/2 months all the paperwork we needed to complete our dossier is finally completed!! Matthew was not that impressed with my 20 piles of paperwork I sorted to get ready to send - he just kept asking for ice cream.  How hard it is to stick all that work into an envelope and give it to the post office.  Thankfully it made it safely to its next stop at our adoption agency in Colorado.  

 What's next you ask?? Our paperwork will get checked for accuracy and then be sent to China - when a whole new waiting period commences...  the wait for it to be logged into China's system and the wait to be matched with our next child.