Matched!
Okay, big news here this weekend…I did warn y’all this was coming, so here goes…
We were officially matched on Friday by our agency with a little girl from Xuzhou with cleft lip/palate. She is currently eight months old. She was born on the only day of the winter this year that it snowed at the ranch, so I am going to refer to her as Snow for now, until I can think of something better.
Xuzhou is in the northern part of Jiangsu province. You may recall that The Bee is also from the northern part of Jiangsu, so the sisters will share a specific regional history with each other, as well as sharing their special need and the fact of their adoption. We hope that will provide them with some additional common ground, above and beyond growing up in the same family together.
Because we are just beginning all the paperwork for our second turn at this, we are thinking it will be late spring or early summer next year before we get over there to meet her. But we are very excited! The Bee has taken to carrying around her sister’s photos and signing “sister” continuously during meals (why this happens most often while she’s eating, I’m not sure…she demands to see photos of her cousins then, too).
I am posting some cropped photos of Snow’s eyes, but I won’t be posting her full photo and her name until we receive pre-approval from the CCAA, and then, only under a password-protected post until we meet her. Same as The Bee. I’ll post informational updates as we get them.
Our hearts are very full, and we are very grateful to…well, to just about the entire universe right now. And we are so thankful that The Bee will grow up having a sister to share joys and fears with, secrets and celebrations. That seems the rightest thing of all….
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