Home Sweet Home!!

We have been home since Friday night and we are all fine. Here is a picture of the girls together. They are having a wonderful time together. Caitlyn just watches Emmy and follows her around. It is very cute.

Here are pictures of them together.

10 Days and Counting

10 Days and Counting and our lives will be changed forever. This is a beautiful video called WHEN LOVE TAKES YOU HOME by Steven Curtis Chapman.

Caitlyn has only 13 more days in the orphanage. 13 more days of being an orphan. 13 more days without a family who loves her. She has 13 more days before her life changes forever! I am blessed to have a lifetime to love her. She will forever have parents and a sister!

When love takes you in... everything will change.

Emmy Singing in Church

Where is Caitlyn??

Caitlyn is located in Poyang SWI - near the Poyang Lake. We will be traveling to Nanchang in the Jiangxi Province.

We have a travel blog created.

A few more weeks and and we will be on our way.

Meet Baby Caitlyn

On June 12, 2009 we accepted a referral for a Special Needs baby. Her name is Bo AoLian and she is from the Poyang SWI in Juangxi Province. Her paperwork was processed on December 26th - Our Christmas Day!! At that time she was extremely tiny. She was 11 months old and weighed only 14 pounds and was 22 inches long. Her special need is Tiny Body.

June 25th we received word that China had Pre-approved our application for Special Needs.
July 31th we received our Letter of Acceptance (LOA). This means that we China has officially accepted our application and the baby is our.
August 25th we received our Travel Approval (TA).

We have named our daughter Caitlyn Elizabeth AoLian. She was born on January 13th 2008. We started the adoption process for her on January 12, 2007.We will be traveling to China on October 8th.

As soon as we received our LOA we contacted Ladybugs N Love to get an update. Since Caitlyn is so young we chose not to send a care package and only ask 10 questions.

It took a while to get the information and it was worth the wait.

Caitlyn has grown so much! It is amazing. She is now 281/2 inches long and she weighs 18.7 pounds. She has 16 teeth and she has hair! She is described as being a happy baby with a good appetite. She sleeps thru the night and she they are potty training her. She can walk a little.

I cannot want to hold her in my arms and kiss those cheeks.

Emmy is very excited to be a big sister.