1st Care Package

Today I sent off our first care package to Toby. I included some clothes, toys, a lovey blanket, disposable camera, photo album of our family, as well as some chocolates and candy for the orphanage staff. I'm not able to track the package so I will just have to pray that it gets to him safely. I will upload some pictures of the package tonight.

Please continue to pray for Toby and our family as we continue on this process.

Early Referral Photos

The photos I have posted up till now have been the more recent ones we have of Toby but I thought I'd post a couple of his earlier photos we received with his referral. These were taken when he was about 8 months old.

We got PA!!!

Like cold water to a weary soul, is good news from a distant land.
--- Proverbs 25:25

We found out this morning that we got our PA (pre-approval) from China to adopt Toby. Basically this means that the authorities in China intend to match our paperwork with Toby's and process our adoption. This also means we can now send him a care package. I will be busy getting some things together for him and his friends and nannies.

God Is Good

I suppose it's quite obvious by the title of our blog but we have decided to name our little guy Tobias (Toby) RuoYu. Tobias means "God is good". We certainly know He was faithful to lead us to our special little boy. We got this updated photo of Toby just yesterday. We were so happy to see how good he is looking and just can't wait to hold him in our arms.

Our Son!!

We would like to introduce our newest family member. We received a call on May 1st from our adoption agency saying they had a baby boy that was waiting for us to become his mommy and daddy. The moment I laid eyes on him I was in love. We accepted the referral and sent our Letter of Intent to adopt Hu Ruo Yu to China on 5/8/09. Ruo Yu was born on April 28, 2008 and is waiting in Henan, China. We hope to travel sometime in late August or September to bring him home.