The view from our Window

Beijing can be bright and sunny

Poor Liang sweated bullets today...I think he walked more than is normal for him...his feet hurt a little tonite

more pictures...one at a time

My little kitchen....I was cleaning up, so excuse the mess

2nd day as a Family

It is easy to please little boys, feed them...and buy them yo-yos.

 

we replaced the pink girl shoes today and I was amazed...he "pretend" pouted when we said no to the car, but was overjoyed when we bought a yo-yo. Disappointed when the yo yo did not have a string...it had been stolen out of the box.  Daddy saved the day by going back and buying 2 more...they are quite amazing little toys for 5 RMB...ball bearings and everything.

While dadd was out he asked "daddy na-li"?  and was happy when daddy showed up with bags...but I think he was happy to see daddy too.

I ran out for groceries to feed this bunch ( found out you need to ask for and pay for a bag) when I rattled the door knob...I heard Liang saying "Mamiya"  and he was yanking the door open.  He pulled out a kitchen chair right away for me.

There are some other boys who will have to step up the pace to keep up with him. :^)

 

Actually I think Hope and Liang will suffer the most with sibliing rivalry...but Hope has a rivalry bone..

 

We continue to be blessed...he just seems happy! He repeats phrases....uses the translator....and tries to imitate his brothers...

Ben was jumping to touch the ceiling....so Liang tried it too .

 

 

If your child can read...

If your child can read buy a translator...it has been invaluable...more later...we are off to replace the pink girls shoes with something equal to this amazing child...honeymoon I know, but I'm loving it.

We are now a family of 8!

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Hello!

God is good! I am officially amazed at the goodness of God!  Guess I should know by now!

This morning we were off at 7AM drove about 40 minutes to the orphanage. Did some paperwork, then suddenly I looked up and there was Liang! He smiled a little tentatively. We gave him his backpack with cars and a motorcycle, after he looked at his stuff. He showed me a small flashlight clutched in his hand it was the flashlight that I had sent with the Newsomes about 5 weeks ago. It looked scuffed and it was used....

After he looked t his stuff, he asked if the stuff was his and if he was allowed to give something as a gift to one of his friends that is still at the orphanage?

He picked out the motorcycle....it was a small yellow one from Walmart, it had a button on the back that lit lights and also made engine noises...I hope walmart still has one when we get home because I really think he picked out the thing he liked best.

They told us they talked to him quite a bit about adoption before today, because a few children from his class have been adopted lately.

We went to KFC for lunch, he picked that over Mc Donalds or a dumpling restaurant.

We had ice cream cones afterward...

It's amazing how well the translator gadget works for us...and the bits of Mandarin that we learned before we came.

He seems to have no problem sharing as he shared his smarties that the girls gave him...made sure mama had a seat... denies that his feet hurt him, he has the prosthetics yet...have not gotten a good look at them yet.

My mind and heart are full....oh, we also have another person in the family that gets car sick....he didn't actually, but warned us that he might, so we sat him in the front w/ a barf bag....

BTW I am unable to read my comments at this time because of our server's great firewall, not china's So if you have comments you can e-mail me direct at  raychris@emypeple.net

We landed in Beijing

Well we made it! The flights really did go amazingly well. The weather was clear, the children waited to break down till we were in our rooms. God truly 

did have His hand in this.

When we landed we found that we meet Liang tomorrow morning at 8AM. 8PM EST for most of you.

Your prayers are appreciated....most of us slept very little in the last 24 hours and might not be on our best behavior

chris for the Weaver's

We Got to the Airport

Good morning!

We got out of the house at 5:10 AM and are waiting at the first airport then the long flight to Beijing.

So far I can't think of anything we forgot... I think...

Thanks for your prayers

Packing

Yesterday I spent the day packing and trying to organize my thoughts....this is the packing room...also known as the "little living room".
I think we may actually be able to fit everything in 6 checked bags and 2 carry-ons. Everyone will have a back pack...but we will see what all I can think of to pack tomorrow, maybe we will end up with another suitcase.

Pray for us, the girls both said they have sore throats this morning and I have a scratchy throat. It will not be very comfortable on the plane with the dry atmosphere, but if that is the worst we deal with...

I am trying very hard not to think about....leaving our oldest son at home
                                                           .....what Liang must be thinking today (if they even told  him he has a   family
                                                           .....what if I forget something important?
                                                           ..... I think most of you  can imagine with me.

I just keep holding on to that picture of one of God's angels escorting us through all the hurdles and hoops we will jump in the next couple of weeks.

T- 5

On my list for today...make a laptop cover with out zippers or metal....

Think this will work?
I am a bit stressed there are people from our agency telling me two different things...what is my job and what is their job...one more to hand over to God. I need to sleep.

T- 6

Another day at home with no children in the house. Not sure I could get used to this. I would probably start talking to myself....even answering.

Today I finished the ID holders I've been meaning to make. I was going to just buy some, but the $8 each price tag stopped me. I went searching for a pattern and found a free pattern! check out studio kat  and search for the ID holder.

 No I'm not going to let the kids carry their own passports...I just want to have some sort of ID and hotel info on each of them. Can you tell that "many doubts and fears assail"?  You wouldn't believe the "what-ifs" my brain is bringing up these days. I know that fear is not from God, so I keep handing each one of them over to Him. 

While I was posting this I just got a notice that our hotel rates had changed...of course I figured the worst. (it said "sorry") but the rates had gone down by $10 per night...well, well.