It's A Girl!

It is hard to grasp all that has happened in the last 24 hours but after nearly 3 years of paper chasing and waiting, we have our referral for our daughter in China! Our surreal experience started last night at about 8pm when I got an email from another agency about a child in India. I had inquired about this baby and had been working with them for the past month to see if we could be matched with this child. The email came last night to let us know we could be matched. THEN at 10 pm I got a message on facebook from Stephanie from our China agency asking me to call her. I called right away and she told me she had a little girl for us. It was crazy; drought to deluge. Unbelievable! As you can imagine it was a late night and there wasn’t much sleep last night. All day today I thought and prayed about what to do. In the end, I realized that I had known all along…. my daughter was in China.

So around five this evening I pushed the send button on an email letting Stephanie know we would like to –LOVE TO-adopt this beautiful little girl. I was immediately overcome with emotion, the tears came from a place deep inside me and I knew we had made the right choice. Whatever reserve I had maintained to try to protect myself from dissappointment was gone. I knew we had found our perfect match, our long awaited China doll.

Our daughter to be is named Liping, she is 3 years old, born 7/25/2006 (yup that’s 5 months older than Nina Bea). She currently reside in Xingyi City, Guizhou China with her foster family. Liping was born with a cleft lip and cleft palette and was listed on the GW individual SN list, she has had the surgeries to repair and she is perfectly healthy! I have photos but they are not in a format I can use to post here but I promise I will put up a picture as soon as possible.

Liping’s description is a hoot she is said to be shy, courageous, likes to smile, likes bustling activity and (I love this) under favorite activity it says “shopping”! That's my girl!!!!

Dart and I are euphoric. It is a sweet combination of excitement, relief and pure joy. We think we should be traveling to meet our new daughter by March. Until then it's paperwork, USCIS approvals and generalized nesting.