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!

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

JunFen goes to Kindergarten!

We learned through Blessed Kids that our JunFen attends Kindergarten in the neighborhood where her foster family lives. This gives us great insight into her life. She does not go to the orphanage everyday for school. We hope that we can visit her Kindergarten class and teacher and exchange addresses.

We also learned that JunFen has had the same foster family since she was 10 months old. We are also grateful for this information so we can better anticipate her transition. Wuhan CWI does not allow contact with the foster family, but we are praying that perhpas we can find a way to see them or at the very least have JuneFen write their address and telephone number right away (before she may forget) so we can send them photos. I would also love to take JunFen back to China one day to visit them.

Attached is a photo of a kindergarten in Hubei. The children are huddled around the heat.

We're waiting for travel approval - and praying everytime the phone rings that it's our SW with travel news! Perhaps we'll be receiving our daughter at Easter!

2 comments:

Shelli said...

hi-My name is Shelli Hutchinson and my daughter Hui Hui was adopted from Wuhan this past Sept 18. She was 3.5 at the time her approx. dob is 5.20.04.I showed her your dau pic and she recognized her.
my blog htt://redthreadstory.blogspot.com
I have 2 dau from Hubei- adopted in the past 1.5 year so if I can be of assistance please let me know.
My travel journal is from dates 9/11-10/5 of the blog. and our travel for Rou Rou to Wuhan in April 2006 is at
http://web.mac.com/macgyver139
my email shelli.hutchinson@mac.com
phone 410-908-6444 looking forward to chatting. Also...could you email me a larger pic of the school. xie xie!

Shelli said...

oops our current blog http://redthreadstory.blogspot.com