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!
3 comments:
Congrats to you on your LOA!
RQ lurker here and I can't wait to follow your journey to your beautiful daughter. We did the same thing and almost forgot to check the box as well. I noticed it when I was looking at the photo we took of the LOA. Called my husband while he was driving it back to our agency and said CHECK THE BOX! heehee. Congrats again!
Congrats on your LOA!! She's just beautiful! We will travel to China to meet our daughter Annie, also with congenital scoliosis, later in the month of February. Am looking forward to following your journey!
Blessings,
Paula
Congratulations! You're so close to getting your beautiful daughter! I'm so jealous - we haven't even received PA yet, although we were DTC before LOI, so we may not. I wish we could send a cake to our daughter like you did, she turns 6 next week and we won't be there to celebrate with her. Enjoy Wuhan, we met our first daughter there. I will be following your journey closely!
Colleen
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