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...

Monday, August 3, 2009

Guangzhou - Aug. 3

Just the usual -wasting time away so we can go home day...
 
Although, there are a few things to report:)  Last night, it was the cutest thing!  Lance had read Maylynn books etc. tucked her in and layed with her for a few minutes.  Soon after, he "snuck" off the bed and crawled next to me - she kinda peeked over but never whined about it - soon after that, she started singing -she sang for about 20 minutes - it was soooo sooo cute:)  Usually at about 8:30 she is ready for bed and simply falls asleep - we ar thinking that she had some extra energy b/c she ate a Magnum bar (remember those my PHF friends:)) anyway - we didn't taste her's until she was done and found out it was coffee flavored -hmmm...
 
So, she went to bed late and woke up early (had an accident:() and proved to be very tired this morning - so were we.  Breakfast was successful again but then we went shopping agian at the mall to the pearl factory etc.- she was a bit out of hand and a few time was quite a little you know what! She  hit me and screamed very madly at me - i wasn't going to let her get away with it and firmly told her no etc... We bought a few things including an extra suitcase:) Some of the deals aren't too great here though - some things i think that i can get at walmart for the same price:) except for pearls and the chinese essentials;)  After lunch we all took a 2 hr. nap - it was wonderful and my sweet girl has been back!  We went swimming again, dinner at Lucy's again and Magnum bars on the way back to the hotel (Maymay had vanilla icecream though:)) Now we are watching her video that she LOVES!!! and sang last night:)
 
Oh - i almost forgot - her TB test was negative but we just found out about a family here with the postivite TB test nightmare!  You can visit there website at:http://jayscruggs.livejournal.com/  and please pr-y for them - we cannot imagine what they are going through!
 
Tomorrow we have a lazy day - our guide goes to our consulate appt. tomorrow and will meet up with us later to take us to dinner.  We were supposed to go onthe river cruise but we did that last time and do not want to do it again:)  So glad that we have an option to not do it!
 
sorry no pics today:(

1 comment:

The Ordinary Horse said...

Another day of progress and blossoming, and trusting you enough to show her good and bad side! Glad her TB test was negative. The story of the other family you mentioned has been all over the yahoo waiting child site. It's very frightening and very sad. They certainly have a lot of people praying and pleading on their behalf. You're in the home stretch now and I've enjoyed following your journey.