Skip to main content

Adoption Update

So....  We FINALLY got word  (a few weeks ago now...) that Keegan and Ella are ours!!!  They are Cecil's!!!!  We will be traveling early to mid Sept to get them...  We don't have an official date, yet.  Hopefully by the end of this month, or July we will receive word!  :)

We sent them a care package that included 2 outfits, an album of pictures of us, a stuffed animal for Ella and plastic animals for Keegan, and a letter, and a bag of candy, or some sweet to share with the other kids!  :)  They will let us know when it gets delivered!  :)

I'm just absolutely EXCITED that we finally heard that they are OURS!!!!  We started this whole process about a year ago, and some days it seems like it was longer than that, and other times it doesn't seem like it was that long!

The kids are sooooo super excited to get them!  Thad still says, I get plate for Keegan and Ella?  I said no bubby, not yet...  He says we go get them?  Then he will say soon!  :)

I can now put up pictures and names, etc since they are ours!!!!  We are now officially a family of EIGHT!!!!!!!  :)))))) 

Fang Xiao Jian will be Keegan Xiao Jian Cecil!  And Chen Fu Yi will be Gladriella (Ella) Fu Yi Cecil!!!  :)

Keegan is 5 years old (November 19, 2006) and deaf.  He's in kindergarten and we are told doing very well.  His paper said he likes to copy other kids...  We could have another trouble maker on our hands... ;)  He lives in an orphanage. We don't know if he can hear some, and that's why he's doing so good in school, b/c he's not in a deaf school, or if he just copies others very well and keeping up that way?  :)

Ella is 3 years old (January 3, 2009) and deaf as well...  Since she is in a Foster Care, we were getting reports, no longer, but we did get a few....  At the end of January she was completely deaf, no hearing and no talking, none, zip, nada.  Then we got a report the first of March stating that she can hear some sounds and is trying to call out to the Foster Care family members!  Tell me that's not God!  :)

I'm so excited to get them and bring them home!!!!  I'm hoping we can home school them, but totally ok with putting them in a deaf school if I have too!

We are pretty much ready!  We need to put Keegans bed together and get the mattress from friends of ours...  Need to get clothes for Keegan once I see him and know a size for sure!  I can't tell by his pics!!  ;)

Thank You Jesus for all You've done and are going to do! 

We still need atleast $10,000 (this is on TOP of the grant money we have left...)  a big chunk needs to be in cash...  There is a "gift" you give to orphanage, and then something else, and then for us to buy things...  So we actually need to times that by TWO!!!  :)  We have some grant money left, so we plan on using that to take with us, but still need more. We had to pay a few bills...  big bills...  But My God is bigger than anything we are facing and I know it's all under control!!!  :)

My mom bought me steel hand stamps and plan on making some bracelets and necklaces, so all that money from those I make will go into adoption fund!  :)  I'm thinking "maybe" (or maybe I'm just to tired I shouldn't be blogging....) of opening an Etsy account for those, and maybe making caramels to sell???  I dunno...  It's just a thought that popped in my head as I'm writing...  Not always a good thing!  :)

I have a friend who is doing a fund raiser right now...  I also have another friend who is going to do a Pampered Chef Fund Raiser in July for us...

Just a few more months and my babies will be HOME!!!!  <3

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Run-Aways

Wow, this has seriously been an eventful week! Starting off with the whole fabric softener mis-hap, which you can read on here if you didn't see or hear about it! Then Curt left Monday nite, Tuesday, well, it was ok, we had mom's group and the kids were acting up a bit, but nothing too bad... Then Wednesday I had a meeting at the church... It started out ok, the meeting wasn't long at all! Gavin came into the room and said he wanted to go play outside on the playground. I told him no, because I couldn't see him. I said, what if someone came by and picked you up and grabbed you and took you somewhere? Mommy would never see you again and I would be soooo sad! I said, I can't see you, so you need to stay inside. Well, not more than 3 minutes passed and Kotah comes up to me and says, uh, mom, Gavin is trying to go outside. So, I get up, go over to him and talk. I asked him what is he doing? he says, I WANT to play OUTSIDE! I said, bubby, I can't see you, so you can...
3 comments
Read more

Judah's Wife Book Review

I received this book from Bethany House for free if I agreed to read and then blog about it. Judah's Wife is by Angela Hunt. I've read a few of her books and absolutely enjoyed and loved them!  I was very excited to be picked to read this book! I've honestly not read anything from the books of Maccabees.  This story is the "silent years' between Malachi and Matthew. I really would like find Maccabees now to read it since I've read this book. This book was amazing! Love being able to read stories that really capture what it was like.  Angela Hunt has done this in this book. I really enjoyed how she told it from Judah's side and Leahs side.  It would go back and forth, but it wasn't confusing at all. Talks about Leahs up-bringing and how she struggled. Her father wasn't a real father figure and in time she realizes how much her mother protected her from her father and his blows. She struggles to truly love Judah at first who was somewhat fo...
Post a Comment
Read more

Cancelled

What a busy crazy day! Curt left right away this morning around 7 to get his blood taken.  He got back and then Audrey got here.  We played and picked up for a bit then left to go to the Health Department to get our TB test done.  We got there around 10ish and they told us we needed to make an appointment.  So we waited for a bit to make an appointment.  Thankfully they had an opening for today yet.  They only do these tests on Friday, so we really didn't want to have to wait until next Friday if at all possible.  Got an appointment for 1:15 and 1:30.  I was thinking ugh, either no nap and very little nap, but I didn't care!  ;) Got home, cleaned up a bit more, got the kiddos some lunch, then we turned around and left to go back to the Health Department.  (I did NOT see the water guy! ;)) Got back there, got asked some questions, wanted to know why I need the test...  I said adoption.  They saw all the other 5 kids and as...
1 comment
Read more