Photos of JunFen at Wuhan Children's Welfare Institute

We've found our daughter! She's our ONE in a Billion!

We have been matched with a lovely special needs six-year old girl living in Wuhan City in Hubei Province, China! Please understand that we started this journey with the intent to adopt a "non-special needs" 12-month old or younger! If you want to make God laugh - tell Him your plans!!!! We see His perfect Wisdom in prompting us to embrace the delightful 6 -year old JunFen as our daugther! What an incredible gift! Our little daughter, JunFen, has a smile that melts our hearts. She seems so wise, funny and resilient for her young age! She is challenged with congenital scoliosis and has repaired cleft lip & palate. It's obvious her physical challenge is not what defines her when you look at her photos and read a bit about her life.

She was found in a park on September 10, 2001. We believe that her mom placed JunFen in a place where she would quickly be found. JunFen was taken by police to Wuhan City Child Welfare Institution. Her DOB is approximated to be September 1, 2001. She was not able to get adequate nutrition as a babe because of her cleft palate. When she was 10 months old she was placed in a foster home where she received the extra TLC she needed to grow "plump" (our translated letter reads) and to thrive. She is described as talkative, energetic, having rich facial expressions and is independent. We hope that we meet all of her biological mom's dreams for her little girl and then some. We also hope to stay in contact with the dear foster family that has nurtured her so wonderfully.

Other things we know about our JunFen -

Favorite activity: playing outside

Favorite toy: doll

Favorite food: fish

She speaks a Southwestern dialect of Mandarin Chinese. Most likely she speakes a Wuhanese dialect at her foster home.

We are over the moon in love with our girl! God is good - we are overwhelmed with gratitude for the gift of JunFen ("June").

We can't wait to bring her home!

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Finding Ad - Our daughter as a toddler


China publishes finding ads of children who are found and are not claimed. Our daughter was found in 2001, however, her ad wasn't placed until she was 2 years and 8 months old in 2004. We guess that this is when her welfare institute decided she was "adoptable" - after the repair of her cleft lip. It may also be that Wuhan CWI did not start to routinely publish the ads until then. We are amazed at her precious smile! And she also looks the same as a toddler as she does now!

Her finding ad was published on April 23, 2004 - almost on our first year wedding anniversary (April 26th).

She was found near Tazi Lake Shuizi Park, Jinag'An Disrict in Wuhan. Here is a description of the aquariam at this location.

Wuhan New World aquarium 武汉新世界水族公园
Wuhan New World Aquarium, located at Tazi Lake, Jiang'an District, Hankou, coves 60,000 square meters. This aquarium is characterized by freshwater rare wild animals including over 50 kinds of national A or B level protected animals (such as Chinese sturgeon, Chinese alligator, cowfish, black swan, yellow duck, peacock, mullet, giant salamander and so on), more than 200 kinds of rare plants and over 500 kinds of famous and precious fish from other countries like silk carp from Japan, seven color angel fish, gold dragon fish from South Africa and so on.
JunFen was "protected by angels" as a special needs child found at this place that protects what is precious! We hope to visit her finding place when we soon go to China.

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