We are Expecting!

We received this wonderful email today..

"Hello Jim and Christina!

Congratulations on your acceptance of your referral. I received your contacts and application today! I am so excited to begin working with your family as you enter the China special needs program! Your referral packet has been mailed out today.

Tiffany,
All God's Children Adoption Agency
Portland, Oregon"


Jim and I are starting on a journey to add to our family by adopting Shen Yong,a 7 year old boy living in Ningbo City, China. He is living at EnMei SWI in a well run Orphanage/Children's Home in the Zhejiang Province. His paperwork says that he loves to play with cars and ride his bike. He is very social and likes to act. He knows his antonyms and synonyms. We are thrilled and can't wait until he is home with the rest of us in Geneva, IL and joins his brother and three sisters. God is Awesome and we are so Thankful for his bringing George to our attention through All God's Children International and Tiffany our new Adoption Social Worker.

Jim and I make a Big Decision

Today Jim and I completed our paperwork with All God's Children, International to adopt a little boy with Special Needs from China that is being represented for adoption by their Agency. We have been submitting interest forms for about 9 months to various agencies finding out general information on their Adoption Programs, the different types of kids they represent, where they are from, how old they are, what their Special Needs or Personalities might be. We also supplied them with info on what type of family we were, what type of child might like being part of our family and that we were specifically looking to adopt a little boy 4-6 years old that was outgoing, cute and smart like his potential new siblings are.

Earlier this week we were contacted by Tiffany a Social Worker at AGCI who had a little boy that AGCI was representing that she thought might be a match for our family. We had several days to review some basic referral information in his file that included a few pictures, information on how he came to be living in an Orphanage and how he was ready for International Adoption, 1-3 page documents in the areas of physical development, social development and cognitive development. After reveiwing the information, discussing it at great length, and running the medical information by our Pediatrician and an MD in Chicago that reviews medical files for potential Adoptive Parents, we decided that Shen Yong would be a wonderful addition to our family and we filled out the necessary paperwork required to get the process started to bring Shen Yong home to live with us.