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!!