MEET OUR LITTLE BUTTERFLY!!!!!!

8 MONTHS OLD THIS WEEK
(in all the excitement our coordinator had transposed two digits in her DOB, so she is actually a month younger than we initially thought)

PLEASE MEET.....ELYSA XIAO LANG




OUR DAUGHTER'S GIVEN CHINESE NAME IS: Xiao Lang....she is from Jiangxi Province....So we will be traveling to Nanchang to meet her (the capital of Jiangxi Province) We will be posting much more info about her province and other stuff in the near future. Also, we will know more info after translation is complete on Friday.

Elysa's Stats:
Appears as if she's been in Foster Care since the day after her birth
Birth wt July 2006: 6.6#

DEC. 2006wt: 14#
length: 61.6cm
head circ: 40.1cm
chest: 40cm

She is a deep sleeper (we'll find out!).
Holds head up while on her stomach.
Rolls from supine to prone position.
Grasps toys near hand.
Uses thumb and index fingers deftly.
Locates direction of sound and voice.
Holds block in each hand at the same time.
Looks for dropped toy.
Visually follows moving toys.
Follows you with moving head from side to side.
Laughs Aloud....yeah, i like this one....
Distinguishes between acquaintances and strangers.
Knows name and turns when called.
Responds to facial expression of adults
Active. Quick in reaction.
Fond of listening to music and playing w/toys.
Having a ready smile. Sometimes inpatient..hehehe
Close to caretaker.

Wow, what a day this has been....We are still floating on "cloud 9"!!! I received a phone call at work this morning at 0930. I immediately called my husband and he thought for sure something was wrong as I was "blubbering" and incoherent for a few seconds...dh,"are those happy tears", dw,"yes, we got her".....After both of us finished the "have to do" things at work we were both able to leave at noonish and go to our agency and sign the acceptance letter so it can get sent off asap. The sooner its sent the sooner we get a travel approval and can go meet her. We were able to sit and talk with our coordinator and gather more info of what we needed to do between now and our tentative plan of travel the first part of May.

We would like to extend a warm, loving, special thank you to our daughter's biological parents for conceiving and giving birth to the most beautiful little girl we know. Unfortunately, they had to make one of the hardest decision in their lives that will bring us great joy and for that we will always honor them and be grateful.

We would also like to extend a warm thank you to the People's Republic of China for blessing us with the most perfect daughter for our family. We would also like to give a very big loving, warm thank you to Elysa's foster mom. We are greatly indebted to her for loving our daughter as her own and taking such great care of her until we can bring her home.

And we would like to thank our employers for being so flexible and supportive and in letting us take time today to relish in the great news!

Finally we want to thank all of our family, friends and co-workers for being so supportive in this long process.

We are about to bring home our
"LITTLE BUTTERFLY, JIANGXI JEWEL"!!!