We have our TA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just can't believe it!!!! Nancy our Travel Adviser called me on my cell and I was like hum, then I asked do you have some good news? She and I had been emailing each other today. I had this feeling that a date was about to come about. She told me that if it came in by Tuesday we could look at October 23rd for our departure date. My last email back to her was I have a feeling about the date and TA about to come. She had said she was routing for me. When she called me she told me that they had brought the TA's to her office and she asked what they were cause she wasn't expecting any today. She said no way and called me. What was this, E.S.P.????? I think so....

Well for right now we are traveling October 22nd to Beijing, Our Gotcha Day is set for October 26th the day before Holly's birthday, November 3rd is set for our Consulate appointment and we fly back home November 6th!!!! Nancy will be calling me to confirm on Monday, but as for right now these are the dates, and I just can't believe it! I know have that total cloud nine feeling.

I just can't get over it. I just knew something was brewing. I just had to share with my friends and family!

Come on TA!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm getting just a little bit stir crazy here. I hear that if we can possibly get our TA by Tuesday they will be pulling for me to get to China sometime towards the end of October. Come on TA!!!

Everyone reading this please send out good vibes and lots of prayers for our TA to get here soon and that we can be on our way to Evan in October. I have several photos to keep me happy, but they are nothing like the real thing in my arms.

Wendy is so excited about going and hugging her little brother. She and I made her a t-shirt that says "I'm the Big Sister" with his photo down below it. I even put a tiny photo of Evan in a small locket for her and she wore it to dance the other day to show him off. She has been so cute about it.

I'm going to continue working on our Garage Sale items for next weekend. We are hoping this will bring some money in so it can help with the costs of the visas.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Evan on You Tube

Check this link out and see if you can connect to LWB Heartbridge Unit on You Tube.
Evan is on this one near the end in a gray striped shirt looking up at the camera held by a nanny above. He is between little girls on the video.

I hope you can get on. You may have to copy and paste it to be able to get on.

Leave a comment if you were able to get on so I will know.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vrr889r_80&feature=channel

Look What I Found!!

I found another photo of my baby. It is of him when he was 6 months old. He was such a beautiful baby boy. Yes, I mean "Beautiful" baby boy!

I also found him on You Tube, but can't down load it. It is just a quick photo of him, but he sure was darling and I know it was him.

Care Package Ordered!

Well I took care of something very important last night. I ordered Evan his Birthday Care Package. I can't wait to see the photos of what Angela in China comes up with for him. He will be getting such a beautiful birthday cake! I also ordered him a Winnie the Pooh Train since Daddy loves trains so. I ordered an album and sent them 10 photos for him to see who we are. One of each of us: Daddy, Momma, Lacy, Holly, and Wendy. Not to mention the pups,one of the play equipment out back, the front of the house, Grandparents, a family shot and a couple of added ones of Wendy. I also ordered a camera so they could take photos of his party and any left over they can use of him and friends. I think he will have lots of fun getting his present and cake for sure.

I did something a little different this time. All of my friends have used the Red Thread with Ann for sending things, but it was suggested to me to try Ladybugs N Love. So I compared costs and so on.... Well Ladybugs N Love won out. You can go to their site and see photos of packages they have put together. The link is www. ladybugsnlove. com.

Once I sent my order in Kelly who is here in the states wrote me back. She confirmed getting the order and said her daughter was from the same SWI!! Then she evidently checked out our blog and wrote me back. She said she had hugged my son this past June!!!!!!!!!!!!! How cool is that? This is what Kelly wrote, "I have hugged your son-- I recognize his sweet face and his adorable personality that shines from him!!!". It gave me chills that someone I have contact with has hugged my baby!

I can't wait to be able to hug my boy and bring him home!!

Lesa

Just found out....

they think he weighs 12 kilograms which converts to 26.4 lbs.

A Small Update, but BIG to me.

I have found out that Evan is 91 cm tall (in US 36 inches tall), and his foot length is 14 cm (in US is 5.5 inches long). I've been having fun trying to figure it out. ha His feet seem to calculate out to around a size 6 1/2, 7, but by the time we get him his foot could be 7 1/2 to 8 in shoe size. I hope he doesn't grow that much more due to the fact that we happen to have some shoes that are size 7 now. He will be maybe in some 2T's but it would be good to say 3T's at this rate. Better a little big than small. Unfortunately, Holly has had fun and bought 18 months, 24 months, 2T's, and very few 3T's. LOL Now I need to go and exchange many we have if I can. Not sure where all of the receipts are, but at least we kept the tags on them.

This is our 200th post and I was actually waiting for the TA for this post, but one can't wait when they have news. lol

Come on TA! Momma wants her boy soon!!!

Lesa

First Day Of School (Yesterday)

Sorry this is a day late. Mike's camera didn't work yesterday. Once we got home the photos didn't come out at all. Well, just a few at home. Made me so upset! Here are some retakes from today though. Even the teacher was willing to pose once more.
Wendy had a good day and when she got home she fell right to sleep for an hour, then we took her to eat Japanese. It was so good.

She told us very little of her day, but she got to enjoy music class and P.E. yesterday.

I hope today went as well. I'm off to get her now.

Enjoy the photos....

One Step Closer!!!!

We got our LSC today!!!! It took only 13 days from our PA to get our LSC! I think this is some kind of record? It took such a short time to get it! I've been told it could be 6-12 weeks to get the LSC. Now you ask what is the LSC? Well it stands for Letter Seeking Conformation...this means that this is our "Official" referral!! Evan is ours!!! Now to wait for Travel Approval "TA". Our agency seems to think we will get to travel the first week of November. October is out, because of the Fall Festival they have. I can't remember exactly what they call it, but everything shuts down for this event. September families already have their travel info. so we won't be able to travel then.

Okay, let me share some things about him. He is a 2 1/2 year old doll named Rao Su Xin soon to be Evan Michael Suxin !!! His birthday is September 27th, 2006. He is from Xinzhou, Shangrao SWI, Jiangxi of Jiangxi Province. He is in Foster Care; so he may have a hard time leaving them. He is not far from Shanghai. So, we are hoping to travel to Shanghai this time instead of Beijing.

(Red Thread Connections)
His birthday month is one month from Holly's exactly, one red thread.
He looks like Wendy,second red thread! I found him the day after my birthday on a shared list, third red thread. I had gotten my Ladybbug tattoo the day before I found him, fourth red thread.
The day after we locked his file Mike came home and told me that it just dawned on him that Evan's birthday landed on the anniversary of his daddy's death, FIFTH red thread!! This little man has lots of connections to us! It must be Gods way of saying he is ours.


He is a Special Needs baby. He was born with heart issues, but has been surgically repaired. The Doctors in Shanghai have said he won't need further surgeries. We are thrilled about this news. We will still be having him seen by a Heart Specialist here. The most fantastic news is that he is being cared for by a group called Love Without Boundaries. They raise funds to get help for all of the babies they care for to help with their surgeries. It is ran by people from the states with the help and care of nannies from China. They have lots of wonderful photos of him and have passed them to us and have kept up with all of his information so we know more about him than we did about Wendy. I will be adding their link to my sidebar soon. It is a wonderful cause to donate to because so many babies benefit from these funds.

I think you are tired of me rambling and are wanting to see photos.







These were given to me the day after we locked his file.



We have several other photos, but can't seem to get them to copy, but when I do you will be seeing these as well.

Okay, here are 3 NEW UPDATED PHOTOS!!!!! Just a little while ago! One is of him and his little friend there in the SWI, the second is of him looking for cookies in someones handbag.lol The third is of him and his Nanny. Mike noticed that they have painted his toes and fingers pink,red, and maybe lavender. LOL

Old Faithful Isn't As Reliable

We ate at the Old Faithful Lodge before seeing the Geyser go off. The food was good, but the inside of the place was very impressive.









Old Faithful took 90 minutes to go off! They said it use to go off every 60 minutes, but has been taking longer these days. It didn't seem to go off as high as I would have thought either. There were smaller Geysers going off and from a longer distance away from us we could see them really well. Perhaps one day they will be the "New" Old Faithful.