I've been getting a little bit of grief for not posting anything since May of 06. I guess that is a long time! Sorry about that.
A lot has happened since our last post. No one wants to hear the boring stuff so I'll get straight to the good news:
It's a Girl!!
We received a suprise phone call from the waiting child department of our agency on January 22 saying that they had a file for a little girl that we may want to review. I was stunned. We said we would absolutely like to see her file! This is the inital information we got:
Name: Guan Qian Wen
DOB: February 4, 2006
Residing in Kunming Social Welfare Institute, Yunnan Province
Special need: Congenital heart defect (VSD)
Once we received her file via fedex the next day we sent it to a pediatric cardiologist in Massachucetts that re-translated her echo report for us and gave us an opinion on her prognosis. We also had her file reviewed by several nurses and doctors at Children's hospital in Denver. Our champion, Natasha made anyone and everyone at her hospital look at it and give an opinion !! (We owe you Natasha ;-)
In the end we decided that we could not only manage her health needs but she is perfect for our family and we think we are the perfect family for her.
It took us a few weeks to get a homestudy addendum and a new letter of application for China notarized, certified, and authenticated. We sent those as well as our official Letter of Intent to our agency on 2/23/07. Our agency sent it to China on 3/2/07.
Only other adoptive parents care about all those details. Here's what everyone else wants to see. Her picture!
Introducing Alyson Mary QianWen....
These pictures were taken when she was 7 months old. She is now 13 months old so we can only guess what she looks like today. We have requested updated info and photos from the orphanage but we may not receive any.
I'll post more info later!
1 comment:
Beautiful! She's a peach! What a lucky girl to have you all waiting for her.
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