Matching Mom!

Everything I go to look at for Lexi, Katy's first comment is matching Mom! Katy thinks her and Lexi should have everything matching. We will see how far this goes, but I figure I might as well get matching as long as she wants to since down the road she probably won't want to match her little sister.

We have an update on Lexi!

Ann from Red Thread China emailed me today stating.

"the orphange said that they got the package for your daughter.......the nanny said that your daughter is starting to walk, she is a little shy and scared girl....but very lovely, her skin is light to other kids.....also her first operation for her lips was done.....the nanny said hello to you!"

Lexi's Care Package!

We sent a care package to Lexi today!

Ann of Red Thread China put this package together for us and mailed it along with a letter with some questions about Lexi we wrote out to the Xuwen CWI director. She translated them into mandarin for us and will let us know when Lexi receives the package.

Hopefully the cloths fit. I wish I could deliver it in person!!!

Our LOA is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Agency called today and our LOA is here! We went down and signed it and met another family that received their LOA also. It was great to meet a family we will probably be traveling with.

LOA stands for Letter of Acceptance. It is stating that we acept Lexi as our daughter and will take care of her and we are aware of her medical condition "cleft lip and cleft palate" and that we will haved her treated and take care of her as any child born to us.

We already sent them a letter that states all of that but they want another one. Now we just have to wait for our travel approval (TA).

Our PA is Here!*!*!*

China has pre-approved us to adopt Lexi!!! Now we can send a care package and post what pictures we have of her!

The Agency got an update and we have new measurements but not new pictures. The following pictures were taken when Lexi was approximately 8-9 months old.

Our daughter is Xu Jin Ying at Xuwen Comprehensive Welfare Institute, Guangdong Province. She is 19 months right now, birthday August 23, 2005. At the end of March her measurements were : height 78 cm, weight 11 kg, head circumference 46 cm, chest circumference 47 cm, foot length 11 cm. Which is identical to Katy's measurements at the same age. Lexi has a repaired cleft lip (repaired by the Smile Train) and unrepaired cleft palate.

Lexi's name at adoption will be......Alexis Jean JinYing Harmon and we will call her Lexi!

"Somewhere far across the sea
Waits a little heart for me
Amazing though how it may seem
We both are sharing the same dream
I long to tuck you in at night
And hold your tiny hand so tight
To kiss your tears and keep you near
To chase away your every fear
Only God knew what to do
A red thread tied from me to you
And now my love it's almost time
When I'll be yours and you'll be mine
Soon forever-never to part
My child I bore inside my heart"
(unkown)

LID is 3-22-07 and our LOI was sent today!

Well our agency found out our dossier was logged into China's system on 3-22-07 so today they posted our letter of intent to adopt Lexi! As soon as we get pre-approval (PA) we can post information about her. Hopefully that will be real soon.

One of the pictures we went with the Dossier

This is one of the pictures we sent with our dossier to china. I am sending this as a test message to see how it works when I email messages.

Our Dossier is on its way to China!

This has been a whirlwind. When we started they said everything needed to be sent to China no later than April 15, 2007. Well here it is March 2 and our dossier is on its way!! Our Letter of Intent or "LOI" stating we want to adopt Lexi is ready to send but our agency has said they have better luck if they wait until China shows our dossier as logged in so we must wait.

Our agency is on the new web based system for Lexi. The nice thing about that is they can look on the system daily and it will tell them if anything has been updated. Hopefully this will speed things along.

Our Second China Adoption in the works!

After much discussion and prayer we have decided to pursue another adoption from China. We sent in our application last week and will see if we can get everything done in time to beat the new China rules which go into effect May 1. 2007.

This is definitely a leap of faith! I am not sure how it will all work out but we are leaving it in God's hands! Please keep us in your prayers!