HER FIRST SMILE!!

(for us anyway)

July updates are here! We did not expect them for a few more days, so imagine how excited we were to get them early. The pictures are not the greatest (just a bit blurry), but I'll take anything that lets me see my little girl. We were very excited to see the picture of her smiling in the walker, that is the first smile we have seen, usually Maya seems so serious! We also noticed her very skinny little legs...something I am not used to! All of my boys were very BIG, two of them were ten pounds at birth, and all of them wieghed in around 25 pounds by six months! We are talking lots of cute little baby fat rolls on thier legs, so this will be different!

So, we have our travel schedule-

Aug. 24th-Leave for Taiwan

Aug. 28th-Gotcha Day

Aug. 29th-AIT

Aug. 31-Head back home

We are leaving for Taiwan in about a month! I am so excited and nervous! We have lots to do to get ready, and I have four little men to get ready for school...Our oldest, Spencer, starts HIGHSCHOOL two days before we leave! Do not ask me how this happened--last time I looked at him I swear he was starting Kindergarten and telling me to "go home now" as I whimpered at the classroom door. At any rate, I suspect that this month will go really fast yet really slow at the same time.

She wants to meet us....

A couple days ago I got a call from Laura at FFC telling us that Maya's birth mother and father and maybe one set of grandparents want to meet us. I am very nervous about this meeting, but so happy that I will be able to look her birthparents in the face and thank them for the gift of their daughter. I hope that I can ask the right questions, and I hope I can give the answers that her birthparents need. How do I even begin to say thank you or help them to understand how grateful I am for them, and for the precious little girl I am blessed to call my own? I have a lot of thinking to do...

WE GOT THE CALL!!!!!!

It is official! Maya Xiao-Pin is our baby girl--we have our final decree!!!

We can pick her up on AUGUST 28th

We are thrilled and feel so blessed to have this little one to love.

Stay tuned for the juicy details!

JUNE UPDATES!

Okay people, I can't take it much longer...if we don't get travel news soon you can find me in Taiwan!!! Here are the latest pictures of our sweet little Maya, HOW CUTE IS SHE??? She has changed so much this month. When we saw these pictures our hearts swelled a little and broke a little at the same time. The waiting game has not been very pretty the past few days, even Dave who is usually my rock is having a hard time. The boys are doing fine, they ask all the time if we got any news yet and then move on to the next thing with out a care in the world...if only it were that easy for me!