The Beginning of this Journey...

The Lord began this journey towards our second adoption about 1 year ago. He put on our hearts to sponsor Kay - at Harmony Outreach and we did. When i first saw her, i fell in love with her and prayed for her to join our family. It wasn't until May 2008 that the Lord began to use her to open our hearts to adoption again. That was when we had John Bentley from Harmony Outreach (her foster program) staying with us and he told us that Kay was ready to be adopted internationally. We prayed about her and began the adoption process again. Unfortunately, it wasn't in God's plan for her to join our family but He did use her to open our hearts up to adoption again and we are excited to see where He takes us. We are Trusting in Him.

The Lord has brought Maylynn into our lives and hearts on Nov. 21st (that is when we received her referral). We are excited to see Him bring her home to us. Please pray for the rest of our journey. We can't wait to bring Maylynn home...

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Praise the Lord! New Pictures!!








What a wonderful morning surprise! We were so excited to wake up to find some new pictures of Maylynn in our email! Ann at Red Thread China was so faithful in getting us this information - we are SO, SO grateful!!! Our hearts are so full of joy right now:) She is so beautiful and we are even MORE anxious to bring her home. It give me so much peace though because she looks so happy and well cared for. We finally have some updated measurements too - now i know what i can start packing!

height :88.5cm = 34.8 inches
weight :14kg = 30.9 pounds
head :47cm = 18.5 inches
chest :51cm = 20.1 inches
feet:20cm = 7.9 inches

Her foster mother is also in one of the pictures - a treasure that we are so grateful for too! And, it give us hope that she may still be living with her -sometimes, once they find out that a family is coming, the orphanage will take them out of foster care and put them back into the orphanage until the family comes.

4 comments:

eastandwest said...

She is so cute and full of life. And obviously well-loved.

Tara
Guilin mommy

Still Waters said...

She is so precious! Any chance she will be here by August so I will get to meet this special girl! The kids must all be getting so excited seeing thier sister too! Praying for safety & good enough health to get her home SOON!

Beth said...

Precious pictures... you all are in our prayers.

Sue said...

She is so adorable and healthy! You waited so long for these pictures and update. I'm so happy you finally got them.
Getting closer!
Sue