More New Pictures!

Getting his 1st Hep B shot




We have a Binky boy!

New Update, No New Pics :-(

We just got this e-mail this morning: We need to send paperwork to Taiwan ASAP so they can get started on it. Jake went to the dr. yesterday for a check-up. He weighs 6 lbs. 4 ounces!!!! and he got his first Hep B shot. But he did great and the doctor told him to keep up the good work! His caregiver, Mary, said that he sleeps in three hour shifts, has his bottle and goes right back to bed. When awake, he is very alert and doing great! GOD IS WONDERFUL!!!!! We are so in love with this little miracle boy.

The girls go shopping!

Today Natalie and I went shopping for her baby brother. It was so much fun....well, at least for me. Natalie was not too thrilled about looking at all that blue! But once she got her light-up fairy wand, she was happy. Natalie declared that Toy-r-Us is her FAVORITE toy store. Oh no.....I thought she was spoiled before.

We found some great deals at a children's consignment store. I bought Jake a bouncer that has a built-in massager, along with vibration and music. I hope he likes it. We picked out a lot of really cute jammies and onesies. I got preemie size to send to him now and newborn/ 0-3month for when he comes home. Oh my word, they are all SO tiny!

New pictures from my friend, Gina. Her daughter Mylee is a HisHands baby, too. Gina got these pictures, that were taken Friday, and when she saw Jake in them, she was kind enough to send them on to us.




LOOK WHO HAS HIS EYES OPEN!

New Pictures!

I am so in Love! I was told that he is doing great! Jake is in excellent care and being hugged and cuddled for us. I am over the moon.

The Lowdown.......Warning, Warning...........Does Not Compute!

Now that I have regained some of my composure, I will explain how this came about. Since we are doing an Independent Taiwan Adoption, there is really no agency. We contacted a women's home in Taiwan that is run by two Christian women from the US. They were called to help young women in need of prenatal services, counselling and postnatal help. Their mission was to help these women with options other than abortion. Before long they realized that their were being directed by a Higher Power to help these babies find a loving family that could care for them. This is how they became involved in adoption.

An on-line friend advised me to look into independent adoptions when it seemed as though all doors to finding our son were being closed in our faces. In a round about way, I found His Hands Taiwan, Inc. They were very small and just beginning to do adoptions. I filled out their on-line application and waited. After not hearing back from them, I got discouraged but my friend told me to hang in there. When I received the newsletter from His Hands saying that they had babies in need of families I e-mailed them and asked about our application. They never received it! My MSN account was not recognizing their e-mails and deleting them!!! So, long story short......I re-applied, sent in any and all documents that I had from our Vietnam dossier and then prayed - a lot.

Last week, His Hands posted a picture of a beautiful baby boy that they had just brought home from the hospital. I could not take my eyes off of him. I was drawn to him, I could actually feel him in my arms. I could picture him wearing the clothes that I had bought. But why was I feeling this? Chances were that he would be referred to someone that had been on the 'list' longer than us. I had to steel myself against getting too attached. But yet, I could not go more than a few hours without seeing his tiny face. The next day, His Hands posted a newer picture of him. This time I FELL! I was head-over-heels in love with him. I knew that I would be devastated when he was referred to someone else but it was too late. The next day I couldn't take it any more so I posted on His Hands Facebook page, inquiring if he had found his forever family yet - truly expecting to hear that he had. I kept looking for their answer, nothing came.

Yesterday, I was reading my sociology book and, surprise, found myself falling asleep. So I went and laid down. The next thing I knew, Jon was getting Natalie ready to take her to the Red Slide (aka Mickey D's Playland). I got up and had to make a stop in the, um, restroom. While there, Natalie came in, turned around, whispered to Daddy about what she was supposed to say, came back in and, handing me some papers, said "Would you like to meet my new baby brother?!" OK, now this is NOT how I pictured this moment!!!!! I sat there staring at a face that I had grown to love, a face that had become so familiar to me. I looked up at Jon and, when I could talk, asked what he was doing with these pictures. He said that he almost deleted them before he opened the e-mail because he thought it was spam. OH MY GOD! Then he realized what he was looking at. Our REFERRAL!

It took me several minutes to....breathe, talk, function, compute. All I could picture was the robot from Lost in Space spinning around, waving his arms saying "Does not compute, does not compute".

It's a BOY!

I never thought that I would ever be able to say those words. But today it happened. Jon opened an e-mail that he thought might be spam, but something told him to open it before he deleted it. When he did, he was shocked to find a little face staring back at him. When Natalie brought me the printed out e-mail (in the bathroom, no less) it was a good thing that I was where I was because that's where I would have needed to be. If you get my drift. You could have knocked me over with a feather. I am still in SHOCK!

Anyway, you aren't really interested in all this.

So......

Here he is


Born: July 5, 2009 (6 weeks early!)
Name: Jonathon Joseph JinChung (Jake)
Weight: 3 lbs. 14 oz.
Nationality: Taiwanese

Time does Heal

Twenty years ago today, my life was irrevocably changed. At the time, I felt as though my life would end, that the world as I knew it was gone forever. But GOD had a plan. Personally, I though HE had lost HIS mind. I was angry at HIM for years. But HE put up with my temper tantrums, my shouts about injustice, my cries of sorrow. He patiently waited, in HIS fatherly way HE consoled me. And now I am beginning to see HIS road for me. HE had taken me down that path because HE wanted me to be a strong wife, to be a passionate mother, to really appreciate children on a higher level. I never, Ever thought I could love again. Love, unconditional love, was far more painful than blind, innocent love. You understand all the risks and accept them - regardless of what might happen. Or how long you might have.

B., M., K., and E., I will always love you and never forget what you gave me.