Two Months!!

Hard to believe but in two months we will be family of four!

We  got our dates and are just waiting to book tickets.  We will fly to Toronto on March 21 (Caleb's Birthday) He is quite excited to have his birthday at Uncle Shawn's and Aunt LeHoa's. On March 22 (Caleb's Gotcha Day) we fly to Beijing will get there on the 23rd. Yep that's the next day. We will have one day to adjust to the time difference and than on the 25th we will fly to Hubei.

On the 25th Clara will be ours!


 Here is a map of where Clara is from. Caleb is from Guangdong which is down on the bottom.

 

Our Second Journey Begins

Hi well I am guessing there are a few of you out there checking this blog. I am going to try and update on a more regular basis. Plans are starting to speed up! We are finalizing travel dates this week!

Caleb is still not very excited about his sister arriving but he has been sorting through his toys and saying I can give soe to her. So maybe he is starting to accept it.

This week we sent a care package to Clara with an agency from China and USA. We chose what package we wanted to give her and were able to write her and her foster parents a letter. We sent her pyjamas, blanket, doll, instant camera-hopefully we will get this back full of pictures of her,candy and a photo album with pictures of us.

Before sending the package Ann asks the foster family if they want to update us on anything or send pictures. Well on Wednesday we got the best suprise! Three new pictures of Clara!

She received out package on Thursday!

Here is a picture of the care package we sent.



A sister for Caleb!

Well, on November 29th, we got THE CALL! We found out we got a referral for a little girl. She is
2 1/2 years old. She is living in Huangmei County which is in the province of Hubei. Her name is Mei LinQin. (Mei would be her last name) She is currently living in foster care and has been there since she was an infant.

Here she is!!!!

Here is a map of her province.

Caleb was from Guandong which is more southern.

Right now it looks like we will be travelling in March, but that is not definite. I can't belive how lucky we are to get to go us this amazing journey of a lifetime twice!!!

Hey there, not sure if any one checks this anymore except maybe Mom, but I had a few minutes so thought I would update. Caleb is doing great and is now in pre-school. I cannot believe that next year he will be in grade primary. Not sure how I will handle it! He loves going to daycare. He is finished all of his surgeries and may need to go to the IWK every year or so for a check-up. He has been going to speech but he is now almost caught up to where he should be for his age so that should be finishing up soon.

So we are not 5th on the list to adopt our daughter. Exciting! Not sure when this will happen it could be next week or sometime next year. Once we get our referral it will be another 2-3 months before travel. Just can't believe we are lucky enough to do this all over again!

Once we get our referral I will be sure to post on a more regular basis.

Here are a few pictures of our summer.

Wow I have been really awful with my posting but things have gotten crazy busy! In one month we will be moving into our new house! So excited. In October I will be graduating with my masters from Acadia. Can't wait to be done. Caleb is doing great. Today we got him a two wheeler bike, he is getting so big! On to our adoption news. We are now DTC which in adoption world that means our dossier has been recived by China. We are now officially waiting. I am guessing that we will get our referral in the next 6 months or so. Can't quite believe it yet!  Next post I promise to put a few pictures.

Well we are one step closer on our second journry to China. We received provincial approval of our homestudy. That letter has been sent off to our agency and thatmeans we are officially waiting for our referral. It is still a long way off as we now have to submit paperwork to China.

Caleb has the date for his second surgery. It will be done on February 15th. It shouldn`t be as long as his first one becausethere is only a small hole in his palate. We are looking forward to getting this behind us. This should be his last sugery. yaaaa!

Christmas was here and gone and we had a great time! Caleb was just beginning to figure out who this Santa guy is!  He got cars and more cars! We  spent most of our Christmas in Cape Breton and Caleb loved spending time with Grammie and Poppy and Shawn and Le Hoa.

This  fall with Caleb had a great time in swim class, we have signed him up for more this Winter. We were busy with me trying to finish my masters and we are also beginning a search for a new house.

And as some of you may already know we are in the paperchasing stage of adopting our second child. A sister for Caleb! We are so excited to be adding to our family and adopting again! Once our paper work has been approved by the NS government we will be in the waiting stage of the game as well as completing the China portion of the paperwork. We will keep you up to date with our progress. The question we get most is how long will the wait be. We are looking at about a two year wait. It could be a little shorter or longer. We are just going to enjoy or time with Caleb and prepare him for his baby sister!

Cheese!

Rosy Cheeks!

Seconds later if fell over!

Christmas Morning!

After shot of the  makeover done by Emily. Caleb loved every minute of it!