"Edacious"

That is the word one of the care givers used to describe Isaiah in an update we just received!

Edacious defined: devouring or craving food in great quantities.

Our boy likes to eat. This is the 3rd report that we have heard about how he likes to eat! If you know Anna, you know our girl can eat too! Greg and I have joked that we might need a 2nd job to feed these two!

Besides being a good eater, our little Ning Ning was also described as a smart boy with a bright smile. His care givers say he gives them lots of happiness and the love him very much.

We sent him a care package and included with it a photo album of Greg, Anna and me. Here is one of the updated pictures that we received which shows him holding our photo album with his care giver telling him who we are ... very surreal for us to see!

This next one is a great shot of our boy rockin' the jean jacket and some MC Hammer pants! Too cute!

We feel so blessed to be able to get updates like this ... and, of course, they just make us want jump on a plane today!!

Two years ago ...

At 4:30 am on Oct. 21st, 2009, the phone rings, I sit straight up in bed and say, frantically "Greg, this is it"! It was the call we had been praying for ... our adoption coordinator says "sorry to wake you, but I have a file for you to review, I just emailed it to you". We rushed to our computer to open the email.

Her sweet little face was the first thing we saw, our hearts melted...

Now, here we are 2 years later and she is almost 3 years old and preparing to be a big sister. She talks about her baby brother all the time. This week she even started setting a place at the table for him as she sets our table for dinner each night. She always includes him in our prayer before dinner as well. And, every airplane she spots in the sky, she thinks is on its way to China to bring her baby brother home.

She even picked a pumpkin out for her brother earlier this month when we went to the pumpkin patch.

Son, Little Brother, Grandson, Nephew, Cousin ...

Meet Isaiah ...




We are thrilled to finally be able to introduce our son! On Sept. 29th at 9:44pm, our agency sent us an email saying they had a file for us to review. We opened it up to see the picture above! On Oct 1st we submitted our Letter of Intent (LOI) to adopt Isaiah Ning.

We had to wait until we had our Pre-Approval (PA) before publicly announcing ... hence the tease picture post several days ago! This morning we woke to find an email from our agency saying our PA had arrived!!

Here is a bit about our little NingNing (that is what his caregivers call him). He just turned 10 months old on Oct. 12 ... his birth date is 12/12/10 (Anna's is 12/14/08)!! He is in Hengyang City, Hunan and we were thrilled to learn that his orphanage is run by International China Concern (more to come about them later). He is described as active and lovely, likes to be cuddled, has a ready smile, quick in reaction, and if angry he cries loudly (just like his big sis!).

We were fortunate enough to get an update on him just this week and learned that he can crawl and say Ma Ma and Ba Ba. They also said that he doesn't want to sit on his own and will fall back on purpose - LOL!

We have several more steps in the process to complete before we will travel. Right now, it's looking like we'll be heading to China in March.

Here is an updated picture of him taken at the end of September during ICC's annual Walk the Wall fundraiser. Isn't he just precious!!