WE GOT OUR LSC!!! IN ONE WEEK!!

We can't get over how fast we got our LSC (Letter Seeking Confirmation) which is the official Referral of our little girl. We have been officially granted the honor of taking her home with us and it's a privilige indeed to having been accepted to proceed with such honor. Here we come baby, now it's probably 3 to 4 weeks to get our TA (travel approval) where they tell us when and where we must be in China and then it will just be 3 more weeks after that when we go far far away to the land of the mistery and the host of the most amazing Olympics ever.... our Madison Xiao awaits and she looks so grown from the previous pictures.... we were lucky enough to find a service where they will get updates and pictures of your child for a very affordable price... if interested please ask me I would recommend them 100%....

TA!!! where are you?????

Heidy and Joey

What we've found so far....

We found out that:

• Bai Xiao Rong, Bai is considered her last name and it usually takes after the city she was born, or the name of the Director of the orphanage at the time she was found, in her case they named her after the city she was born and found in "Dianbai", and just yesterday we found out that "Xiao" means "early morning" "sunrise/sunset" "dawn" and "Rong" means "happy" "good nature" and according to our own interpretation just means she "wakes up in good mood"... wishful thinking I guess.
• Bai Xiao Rong was born in the year of the rooster: The sign of the Rooster indicates a person who is hard-working and definite about their decisions. Roosters are not afraid to speak their minds and can therefore sometimes come across as boastful. They make good restaurant owners and world travellers. Wow, I guess we could use a little discipline in our lives just about now... On the other hand daddy Joey was born in the year of the "monkey"! now that's a surprise! lol.... If you are born in the Year of the Monkey, you are very intelligent, well-liked by everyone, and will have success in any field you choose. Lucky old you! way to go daddy!. Now, mommy was born in the year of the "horse" If you are born in the Year of the Horse then you are amazingly hard working and very independent. Although you are intelligent and friendly, you can sometimes be a bit selfish (me??? ok, maybe now I am because is all about us can you blame us??? our dreams have come true!). Careerwise you would make a good scientist or poet, Heidy aka Dr. H Frost... lol... ok I like that...
• We found a group of families who have adopted or are in the process of adopting from Dianbai and we are getting as much information as possible from a very friendly and helpful group, thank you guys!. One great thing this group has is that they have two lists in their database. One is a list of all Chinese names of their children and their translations (we got our translation) and the other one is a list of medical issues all these children have had either as pre-determined special needs or issues they developed after having them home. Very educating indeed, some of them are medical conditions that are being taken care of or have completed disappeared and some of them where gone the minute they brought them home which is very encouraging...
• We'll be staying at the White Swan hotel for about 12 days of the process, yeah!!! this is the hotel all families stay in either the whole trip or part of their trips. If their child is in the vecinity of Guandong province like in our case, Dianbai is about 5 hours by car from Guangzhou, then they get to stay there every day but if their child is in a different province then they need to go and stay at that province for about 4 to 5 days i believe and then they would go to Guandong since the US Embassy and the governemnt offices where we need to do all our paperwork are in Guangzhou (see sites to see on the left column), the capital of Guandong and where the White Swan is.
• Madison's room almost finished!!! pictures to come soon.
• More updates coming soon as well...

Madison is welcomed by our FCC family...

FCCSouthFlorida : FCC - South Florida Chapter

OUR MADISON TO BE.....

FINALLY WE COULD SHARE OUR NEWS!! WE ARE GETTING OUR MADISON AND WE NOW GOT OUR PA

I don't even know where to begin but I guess the best way to put it is that we can now officially be called "MOMMY AND DADDY" to the most beautiful angel in the world, yep that's the new mommy talking!!! it's our news and I think we are allowed to brag a little bit, right??? So it all started Tuesday, July 22nd, reading one of the so many WC (waiting children) emails we get from our agency. But this one had a special something that made us go through the whole email, and there it was a little girl in waiting for her forever family. Not knowing anything about her and not even knowing what she looked like we contacted our agency to get more information. Right away we received more details... although she had been listed in the age group 3-4 yrs old it turns out she was only 2 1/2 and her condition although alarming at first was not as bad once we were able to talk to a doctor of course after receiving her records for our review. We received her records and pictures on Wednesday July 23rd, keep in mind that she was part of a shared list, meaning other families could be looking at her file right this minute and could lock it up before we get a chance so we need to act fast!...so guess what??? of all days that I have been home and Joey usually in the neighborhood, that one day I was in downton Miami and Joey in Weston, neither one with computer access. It was impossible for me to get to a computer because I was in an all day interview so Joey had to leave his job go to the closest Kinko's to get to his emails to open the file! Although our dream was to be able to open her pictures and see her for the first time together well ladies and gentlemen that did no happen! So Joey gets to Kinko's his nerves got the best of him and although he's done this hundreds of times before has no idea what to do now, sits in front of the computer opens the emails but sees something extremely upsetting!!!! "What is a ZIP FILE again???? he panics, looks around, looks back at the screen no answer turns to his right and there she was another angel to the rescue. A college student working on a paper, Joey turns to her and says "HELP" "I need to open this file but have no idea what to do" and proceeds to tell her what the file was about. She immediately offered her help and untangled the mistery email... just when he thought he got it! oh no! ah, excuse me" "how do I print all of these?"... she again helped him and mistery solved... Joey opened the file looked at the pictures and read her profile and medical records... he text messaged me in the middle of my interview, I excuse myself for a second and read "she is ours", a second text message comes through but this time I was on a break and was able to open it with confidence but never expecting to see this beautiful little face, the face of "our daughter".....In the middle of the break I was able to call my friend Brenda (Mae Li's mommy) "another angel in disguise" and after hearing our news I asked her to contact Joey and help him get in touch with the doctor... Joey tells me later that she was indeed an angel because she basically took the "mommy to be" role while I freed myself from the interview and helped him relax enough to make the phone call to the doctor. My interview finished a couple of hours later!!! The minute I left I got on the phone with my friend Brenda who was able to get the number to the Doctor who takes care of most of our families children and Joey was able to call them to find out that she was on vacation!!! so I got on the phone and was able to find out that her colleague would look at the file if it was faxed to him right away!... I get on the phone with Joey who by then was already home and he got everything ready to fax as I was coming in the house. With the push of a button we where sharing the life of our daughter with a total stranger but this stranger turned out to be the most amazing human being as far as doctors are concerned because not only did he accept our file after 5PM but he called us within 20 minutes to tell us that SHE WILL BE OK!!! Well, needless to say after a couple of minutes of consideration we decided "she will be ours and us hers"... just like that I was going to call the next morning to request the locking of her files but Joey suggested I called that night and leave our representative a message so that she could get it first thing in the morning! Way to go Dad!! because it worked! she called US first thing in the morning to let us know her file was now locked and she'll be ours!!!... Like many of you know, in two days we had to fill out forms and fax and email back to the agency to get the ball rolling... once we did that our rep told us, "now you could relax and wait for about two weeks when you will get your PA" PA= Pre approval... which is what we got today YES WE GOT OUR PA TODAY!!! DID EVERYBODY HEAR THAT??? WE GOT OUR PA TODAY... ok sorry, I'm not to jump and make scenes but today I'M FORGIVEN, WE GOT OUR PA IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!!! PA is the acknowledgement of the CCAA that they have accepted us to adopt BAI XIAO RONG... soon to be MADISON XIAO FROST... Xiao will be 3 years old December 1, 2008 yeah!! and most likely we'll be a family then....!!! Our next step is called LSC or Letter Seeking Confirmation which is an official letter that will come to us via fedex for us to sign and send back to our agency via fedex within 24 to 48 hours I believe.... that could happen between 4 to 6 weeks from now... so stay tune for our LSC celebration....

The 2008 Olympics in China

How amazing to know that China where our little Madison will come from is all over the news for hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. It's a privilige to know that one day we could tell little Madison that the country that saw her for the first time is being watched by the whole world tomorrow! We are so happy that everytime we turn on the TV we see a special either about the culture, politics and their amazing rise. Some of the specials not so positive and sometimes a little disturbing but nonetheless about China!!! we are learning so much these days that if it wasn't for the Olympics we'll probably be buying books and books about it.... Which brings me to this cute video about the Olympics I found in YouTube... I hope you enjoy it!

TO OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS WHO ARE ALWAYS THERE FOR US IN THIS LONG LONG JOURNEY... WE LOVE YOU!!!!

Our anniversary trip to Amelia Island May 2008

Then they were THREE...Welcome baby David Jordan....

To our friends Lisa and Brian BIG CONGRATULATIONS, on their new little angel David Jordan...who was born June 15th and became a Shislowski on June 20th, 2008... We are so happy for them!!! He's the most beautiful baby! I got to hold him and feed him and he's just so good.... May God bless him and watch over him always....Love you guys and we'll always be there for you whenever you need us... after all we are tia Heidy and tio Joey.... lol...

In Memory of Maria Chapman...

FELICITACIONES A NUESTRO SOBRINO WILLITO!!!!

FELICITACIONES A NUESTRO SOBRINO WILLITO DE BARCELONA, ESPANA. Hoy es un dia muy especial para nuestro Willito, hoy marca con una celebracion especial el final de su Secundaria!!! felicitaciones mi amor, nos haces muy orgullosos porque con tu esfuerzo y perseverancia haz llegado a la meta... sabemos que tienes un futuro brillante y esta en ti llegar a el!!! CONGRATULATIONS... from both of us... you make us very proud! today marks with a special party/celebration the end of your secondary studies.... we know how much effort and perserverance you made it happen!!

This video is for you!!!!

June 10, 2008 Referrals

UPDATE!!.... Referrals came up to Jan 20, 2006 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HAPPY PARENTS....

According to the Rumor Queen there seems to be mostly referrals for from Jan 12 to Jan 20th and a couple for Jan 22nd.... Either way is great news compared to last months 3 days so YUPPI!! YEAH ! YEAH!!! Congratualtions to all these babies that finally found the red threat finding their forever families... what an amazing month...

As per the Rumor Queen.... it could mean 10 days of referrals up to Jan 22, 2006!!!!

June 6th, 2008
Three agencies have confirmed that they have something on the way, scheduled to deliver on Monday.
They do not know what is in the packages, but they all think there is a chance it is referrals.
If you are expecting a referral in this batch and want your blog listed on the Babies! post, go ahead and start listing them on this thread and I’ll start putting the post together. Be sure to give me both the name of the blog and the URL of the blog.

Rumor Queen today....

Rumors this morning are more of the same.
They are either matching, or they have matched but have not signed yet. (R2)
More agencies repeating the “more days than last month” thing. (R3)
It still looks like we can expect a cut off between the 16th and 22nd. (R2)
Sorry, but there doesn’t appears to be anything new.
THE WAITING GAME
I really feel for all those waiting who are just waiting and have nothing else but wait.. did I say they've been waiting for a long time? and could be next but then they might not!!! grrr this would drive me crazy... but BEST OF LUCK for those who are next... just "wait" a little longer...

Farewell to our friends Kristina, Mark and Olivia

WE are so missing you already!!! But we wish you all the best in the world in your new home and pretty soon you'll have so many friends that we hope you don't forget us. Here's a picture of one of our "farewells" get togethers... they kept getting more everytime!... love ya guys! GOOD LUCK AND COME BACK TO VISIT US SOON!!!

May FCC lunch

Not only was it our monthly lunch but it was the FCC official farewell to Kristina, Mark and Olivia, this picture is worth a thousand words and then some....

Congratulations Wilcox Family

More great news from our FCC group....today we heard more wonderful news, our friends Brenda, Mark, Shane and Kyle received the referral to their little girl! no pictures yet but the way Brenda describes her in her blog moved us.. she must indeed be an angel CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WILCOX FAMILY, we can't wait to follow them in their journey to little "Mae Li".

OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH STEVE CHAPMAN AND HIS LOVING FAMILY

Our prayers and love are with you..... Rest in Peace little Maria.....

Great FCC news!!! the Isbar's got referral

Yeah!!! Ilyne and Rafael from our FCC group surprised us yesterday with the news of the referral of their beautiful boy "Benjamin".. he's gorgeous and will be 5 yrs. old soon... They should be traveling for Mother's day!!! yeah CONGRATULATIONS Ilyne and Rafael can't wait to read about your trip to your little boy....

HAPPY NEW YEAR - FELIZ ANO NUEVO 2008

We are so excited to start this New Year... we know this year will bring us closer to our Madison... so Madison if you are already here hold on tight! we will get you soon!!!

Love,

Mommy and Daddy!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!!