THE Call

Today is Wednesday, January 25th. We received 'the call' today. Our daughter's birthday is 8/17/2004. That is one day before Erich's. She is officially 4 days older than her cousin Alex. They will be great playmates! She currently lives in the Guangdong Province at the Huazhou City Social Welfare Institute. The capital of this province is Guangzhou. This is where the American Consulate is in order for her to become a US citizen. All families from the US come to Guangzhou for the last step and then fly home. This means we have one less inter-country flight than other families. We will stay at the White Swan Hotel. Check out this place! http://www.whiteswanhotel.com/eng/Public/index.asp

Her Chinese name is Ji Miao Han. It is pronounced Gi Meow Han. Ji is her surname that all children from the orphanage receive. Her first name is Miao which means sprout. Her middle name is Han which means Chinese. So we have a Chinese sprout. This is very exciting!!

Erich, Logan, and I are taking the day off work/school tomorrow to drive to Evansville. This is where our agency, FTIA, is located. Right now, they are translating the rest of her package. Tomorrow, we will receive it and 2-3 pictures. I cannot wait!! We are hoping to have dinner with our friends, Paul and Lora Blaylock who live there.

To top off this day, we received a bid on the Milford house which we accepted! I can tell folks out there in cyber land are certainly praying for us. Thank you Lord!

Check back soon for pictures!
Robin