Jodie's new love( The Internet friendships)

Australia Day 2008.

Our family went camping north of Townsville, with our friends for the long weekend. We had a fabulous trip.

Good Weather, Good food and Good company.9 kids in total.

We celebrated Australia Day on the Saturday 25th January with Sausage sizzle for lunch and lamingtons for morning tea. Lamb Cutlets were supposed to be for dinner on the B.B.Q with salad but i left the Cutlets in the freezer at home. So we did the Aussie fish n chips instead. We flew the flag at our camp site and kids were plastered with Australia flag tattoos.

The photo above was taken by Andy and Angie from America who meet there daughter Caroline on the 21st Jan and visited the Foshan orphanage on 25th Jan. They meet Zian and her carer and took this photo for us. Caroline and Zian are actually play friends.

These updated photos are so precious to us, piecing the time together while we await to meet her. The time is going quickly with everyday life consuming our time. We are 21 days today until we fly out of Australia.

Jake 9yrs started grade 5 yesterday and is happy with his new teacher. He found his teacher from last year and told her of his news about Zian. That is lovely to hear that he sourced her as he knew she would be excited for him.

We have made some contacts over the internet with families to meet in Guangzhou and Shanghai who are also adopting . What a wonderful thing to be able to meet with other families in country to connect with them and there child.

Keep Smiling until i update again.

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Zians Finding Ad

I have researched and researched and was able to track down Zian's finding ad placed in the Southern Farmers Newspaper on April7th 2007. She was listed within this area as child 301 for 2007.

The finding ad is what the authorities do in the search for the natural family to come forward.I personally think it is so the natural family can see that there child is safe and authorities have placed the child into an orphanage which means this child will be adopted to a family who can provide for them.

Either way we have found some information that will help Zian as she looks for the pieces of the puzzle, that was her life before and after she came into our family.

I have also found that she was placed in a red flowered blanket near a Basketball court on Dec 29th 06. From this the health authorities have given her her birthdate. We will always celebrate her birthday but will celebrate her welcoming on the 25-2 each year.This day is the day we will meet Zian in Guangzhou.

We are counting down 27 days to go.

New photos of Zian taken 9-1-08

I was so lucky to receive this photo taken in Zians
orphanage on Jan 9th this year.It is a treasured
photo of her while we are waiting to travel,
I am hoping to receive some more soon.Will keep you posted.
From this photo we can see she is standing around furniture and obviously pulling herself up.She has now 6 teeth and weighs 8.9kg and is 74cm in height. I have forgotton to mention earlier her name given is Ji Xiao Hai.

HOW PROUD ARE THESE BIG BROTHERS SHOWING OFF A PHOTO OF ZIAN THAT WE RECEIVED ON NEW YEARS EVE DAY!!!THIS IS PRICELESS.

This is the first photo we received on new years eve at 1.30pm of Zian from our adoption unit.She looks healthy and happy. I cried. Boys were so excited to finally see a photo of her and they now just cant wait for us to bring her home. Zian you are gorgeous.

We have just been invited to travel

So we have just received notification to travel and our dates are to be in Guangzhou on Feb 24th 08, ready to meet with Ji Xiao Hai on Monday Feb 25th am.
So with this news we will be booking travel in morning to have all details confirmed with our adoption unit.
All has been smooth sailing with paperwork and have such great support from Northern Territory adoption unit.It is a month tomorrow that we will be meeting a little angel in person and just want to hold her,so she can feel the power of love.