Friday, January 26, 2007
Still trying to figure this blog thing out
It is now a few days later, and I have almost given up..for today at least, to try and post a picture of Kaï, the darn thing doesn't transfer, anyways that will be sor some other time, I guess. Someone asked me, when they found out I was blogging, that it meant I had a computer to update the blog while in China...huhhh no. Hopefully I have access to someone elses. I did want to save up for one..but for anyone that knows me, well you won't be sruprised to find out I didn't quite save up enough, oh well, nive try. I did save up enough to possibly buy a Nintendo DS, now that would be fun, and it could keep Geneviève occupied on the trip. She is a wonderful traveler, not like her mom, I turn green and feel sick with every air turbulance..the things we do for our kids, as there is no way I am not going to china, jet lag, nausea and all! I am still waiting for FOI to send us an update on Kaï and to information on our file, we are over 80 days ;-(
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Premier message/first message
Bonjour tous le monde. Bienvenue a mon blog, une place pour laisser mes pensées sur l'adoption prochaine de Kaï et de ma p'tite famille. Puisque la majorité du monde qui va lire ce blog seront anglophone, je vais continuer en Anglais..je suis sur que Daniel aurait quelque chose a dire cotre ça, mais heck, c'est mon Blog..je t'm Daniel ;-)
To translate I welcome you to my blog, a place that I can write my thoughts on the upcoming adoption of our youngest child, Kaï Zhiyan Haché
He is going to be 3 yrs old on march 24, 2007, I hope we can be there before and celebrate it with him.
We received Kaï referral on sept. 22nd '06. and sent our LOI ( letter of intent ) to China nov 12th '06 ... it took a bit of time for us to be able to have all the information re: the health of Kaï. He has bilateral Microtia, meaning his ears are very little and he has no ear canal. so he can hear very little. When we wrote up our homestudy we had written that we would consider a child with heart problems ( ASD/VSD ) cleft lip/cleft palate, Thalassemia B trait, I forget what else, anyways we finished our list with : we would consider a boy child born from jan 2004 and dec 2005 with a mild correctable SN. When FOI called us to say they had a file on a 2 1/2 yr old boy with little ears, we said sure!! BUT...we ( well I) had to read up on hearing loss, I know Kaï will have hearing aids but hearing loss is no little matter, manageable yes, but not a non-issue. Also I needed to know that his heart and his kidneys were OK, and after 6 weeks we finally received the results of tests that were fine...so we said YES! and wrote the LOI, Daniel did it actually and it was a beautifully written letter. brought tears to my eyes. My husband can be wonderful sometimes.
So now we are on day 80 of TA wait, the final OK from China to go get our son. Even thought we have gone throught this process once when we adopted Mia in Jan '04, I feel like this time the wait is even harder, maybe it is because I know how Kaï is, and that he is growing without us.
In October he liked to examine toys before he played with them, he would help the younger children put their shoes on.
sigh... I can't wait to know him more. He is going to be a beautiful addition to our family. I guess I am all typed out for today, bye
To translate I welcome you to my blog, a place that I can write my thoughts on the upcoming adoption of our youngest child, Kaï Zhiyan Haché
He is going to be 3 yrs old on march 24, 2007, I hope we can be there before and celebrate it with him.
We received Kaï referral on sept. 22nd '06. and sent our LOI ( letter of intent ) to China nov 12th '06 ... it took a bit of time for us to be able to have all the information re: the health of Kaï. He has bilateral Microtia, meaning his ears are very little and he has no ear canal. so he can hear very little. When we wrote up our homestudy we had written that we would consider a child with heart problems ( ASD/VSD ) cleft lip/cleft palate, Thalassemia B trait, I forget what else, anyways we finished our list with : we would consider a boy child born from jan 2004 and dec 2005 with a mild correctable SN. When FOI called us to say they had a file on a 2 1/2 yr old boy with little ears, we said sure!! BUT...we ( well I) had to read up on hearing loss, I know Kaï will have hearing aids but hearing loss is no little matter, manageable yes, but not a non-issue. Also I needed to know that his heart and his kidneys were OK, and after 6 weeks we finally received the results of tests that were fine...so we said YES! and wrote the LOI, Daniel did it actually and it was a beautifully written letter. brought tears to my eyes. My husband can be wonderful sometimes.
So now we are on day 80 of TA wait, the final OK from China to go get our son. Even thought we have gone throught this process once when we adopted Mia in Jan '04, I feel like this time the wait is even harder, maybe it is because I know how Kaï is, and that he is growing without us.
In October he liked to examine toys before he played with them, he would help the younger children put their shoes on.
sigh... I can't wait to know him more. He is going to be a beautiful addition to our family. I guess I am all typed out for today, bye
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