Pictures of our Cute little Cricket!

We are excited, awestruck and happy to report that we got our referral today for our little Cricket, Jiang Yu Ting, born 8/22/2004 in the Fujian province.

She seems healthy, and the orphanage reported that she tracks visually, responds to sounds, likes music and playing, responds to her own name, and is impatient and obstinate at times. It looks like she may already be a Little Emperor, and that should help her fit in well to be pampered and spoiled rotten. Mom is bouncing off walls, Dad is experiencing back pains from being bent around her little finger, and Emily is definitely excited (Kayla is away at camp). After blowing some dough getting the last (?) of baby purchases at Babies R Us, we celebrated with banana splits and sundaes at UDF. The marks on the forehead look to be glue smudge-marks from scanning, next to the attractive staple on the photo.



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See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. -Exodus 23:20

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A new bit of news

Well, after posting earlier today, we recieved a second email from our agency. While they didn't have the referral, they did recieve information that WE HAVE A GIRL!!! They had nine families expecting referrals this month and have information that there are nine little girls from Fujian Province being referred. The girls have birthdays ranging from March to December of 04. So we know we have a little girl, but will not receive her birthdate, name or other information until Monday. When we get that information we will post it.

No referral today

We recieved an e-mail from our agency about 9:30 Friday morning. The package they were expecting was sent to the wrong distribution center by the shipping company. They will not recieve the package until Monday. We are hoping this package has referrals in it, but as you can guess, we are very disapointed at having to wait until Monday to find out. However, we know that all is in God's timing and he has a reason for the delay. We continue to look to Him for strength

Is the referral coming?

We heard from our agency on Tuesday that there was a package in the mail from China. They are not sure what it contains, but they hope it is referrals. This would fit in with what our friends from other agencies are saying. We were told the package should arrive in their offices on Friday June 24th. So hopefully, by this time tomorrow, we will have more information on Cricket. As soon as we find out anything, we will post the information and any pictures we recieve. The excitement is building around here and we jump everytime the phone rings.
Stay tuned....