Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Questions orphanage answered about Lei recently !

What is his personality like?

He is active, smart, industrious, and sensible.

When does the orphanage usually tell children they are being adopted and when is it ok to send a care package?

After we submit his file, we told him: “we’ll find a warm family for you. You’ll have Daddy and Mommy in the family.” After we received your pictures, we showed him the pictures right away, and told him it’s his parents. Please feel free to send care packages to him, we’ll definitely give them to him and tell him: Your Mommy and Daddy really care about you and love you very much.

Is there anything we can send for the children and caretakers of the orphanage ?

We have everything here, nothing needed in particular. Thank you for your kindness.

How does Lei feel about being adopted?

LeiLei hopes he has a real family. There are daddy and mommy love him. So when he heard there is a family is going to adopt him, he was very excited!

Is Lei close to any of his caretakers and if so, what are the names?

He lives in our big family. We all love him and he gets along well with everybody. And he is very close to us.

What are Lei's likes and dislikes? Does he have any favorite toys? Favorite Foods?
He is not picky. He loves remote airplane and cars. He loves KFC!

When Lei is upset, how do you comfort him?

Give him a hug and kiss him, usually he’ll be happy again.

Does Lei like animals? If so does he have a favorite?

He likes rabbit and kitty. He dreams he can ride horse and walk on grassland.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Celebrating Sisterhood

Thought it would be fun to create a slideshow with pics of Audrey and Rachel together since Rachel came home. A good friend is making a scrapbook for the girls and she is the one who gave me the idea to make a slideshow just celebrating their relationship. The song is definitely a little more country that I would prefer but I had to use it because the words were perfect ;-)

Monday, February 11, 2008

We will be Officially DTC Friday !!!!!

We just received an email from Terri at CHI and our dossier will be hand carried by Stefani Ellison on her trip to China this Friday. We are so excited and relieved that the paperchase is over and we are anticipating a February Login date. Now the wait begins. I think on average it is taking 90-100 days or so to get the LOA once you are DTC and have PA. If this comes true for us, we will probably travel early July, but of course this is only a guess. It will be a long Spring this year .........

Thanksgiving to Valentines Pics and Videos

Friday, February 01, 2008

Sisters and Friends




Just thought I'd post some recent pics of the girls playing. They truly are best friends although they spend alot of time abusing each other ;-)

I 171H finally received last week !!!

After nearly 9 weeks of waiting, we finally received our I-171H for Liu Lei, soon to be Paul Lei Price Hanna. What is really sad is that after 9 weeks of waiting, they didn't fill out the I-171H correctly. They forgot to mark that he is a special needs child. Fortunately our agency told us to go ahead and use the original I-171H for authentications and just take the updated I-171H to China with us with the original. So, we are finally about to be DTC. We should receive all of Paul's documents back from the courier in DC by the middle of next week and hopefully be logged in with a February LID. If we are logged in February, we are guessing we will travel late June or early July. This paperchase by far has been the worst of all 3 of our adoptions. I'm sure some of this is due to the fact that we know our son is waiting .
The girls are doing great and they are looking forward to having a big brother. The girls will be staying with Nai Nai and Papa while we travel so this will be our first trip to China with just Alex and I. We are looking forward to the trip even knowing it may be really rough with Paul's initial adjustment. We also know that we will miss the girls terribly. Niether of them has ever spent a night away from us since they were adopted....

Audrey's video Journal 2004 trip to China

I thought it would be fun to just make a video of clips from our trips to China that are not edited and have the actual audio so I made a video journal of Audrey's adoption and I plan to do one for Rachel this month as well. I think they will be nice keepsakes for the girls.