The best Christmas Present ever from George and a family touring EnMei.

Here is a gift that we got from our son George on Christmas Eve from another adoptive parent. We have never met Debbie or her family but we had exchanged emails on line. They were adopting a daughter from the same orphanage that George lives at this week in China. During their tour they asked the Director if they could take a picture of George for us to send back. The Director graciously agreed and we were so excited to have his smiling face pop up in our email on Christmas Eve.

This is a copy of the email letter she sent to talking about her meeting with George. It is priceless and we can't Thank her and her family enough.


"Hi Christina---

Shen Yong is beautiful!!! He is such a happy boy! I asked the director if I can see him--when they brought him to us he ran over w/ a huge smile! They told him we wanted to take a picture for his mama and he gave an even bigger smile!! When he left, he skipped happily away.

The big room is a group room, there is one of the classrooms for the older kids, one picture of our daughter with her teacher, and then the playground. They really do care for the kids there. When we got there, Kayley was mobbed by all the nannies. They were so happy to see her! The director is very kind and caring. She gave us a bag of snacks for my two boys and for Kayley!!

When do you expect to travel? Are you and your husband going together? It really is an amazing journey!!!

Talk to you soon!
Merry Christmas!!
Debbie"


We just wanted to share the amazing blessing!

Really neat!

Love,
Christina

A Care Package and a letter to Shen Yong's Children's Home Director

Here is the letter we sent off hoping for some word on our son. It has been 4 months since we began to work on bringing George home to our family so we are hoping to hear something soon if possible.


Christina and Jim Copeland

Shen Yong

02-29-2007

Ningbo City, EnMei CWI, Zhejiang Province


We would like to request updated sizes and pictures and get the answers to the following five questions:

1) How is Shen Yong feeling about his adoption into our family?

2) Is he doing well in school and what grade level classes is he taking now?

3) What are some of Shen Yong's favorite things to do, games to play when he gets to choose?

4) What is he most looking forward to about having brothers and sisters?

5) Is Shen Yong's medical condition (hypospadias) corrected to a normal range level or will he require further surgery or medication treatment when he gets to the US?

We are looking forward to traveling to China and becoming his parents. He looks very healthy, happy and full of energy in the pictures we have seen of him from his referral so we know he will get along with everyone in our family just fine.

If you have the opportunity, can you start working with him to learn some English prior to our arriving in China? We will be working here in the US to learn some Mandarin so that we can communicate more easily with him when he moves to the US. We will be happy to pay for the Tutor as described to us by our Adoption Agency, Families are Forever.

Thank you for taking such good care of him until we can arrive to complete his Adoption.

Sincerely,

Jim and Christina Copeland