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Adoption Update: August 13, 2014
Good afternoon! Here is the latest update regarding our adoption. We are being prepared by our adoption agency to travel in September to travel to China to bring home Malachi! We cannot begin to...
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Adoption Update: Visas
Out passports arrived today with visas to travel to China. One more hurdle cleared!
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Adoption Update: GO!
I cannot even begin to describe the excitement, anxiousness, and stress that I feel at any given moment. We’ve known for nearly two weeks that travel to China to bring home Malachi would quickly become...
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Adoption Update: Good-Bye Beijing
Yesterday (Saturday) we finished our touring of Beijing by seeing Tienamen Square, The Forbidden City and exploring a traditional Beijing neighborhood (Hutong) on a rickshaw. While in the neighborhood...
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Adoption Update: GOTCHA!
Today was the day we “got” Malachi! Aside from a little bit of paperwork- he is officially our son! The morning began as we had to exchange money at the bank for some of the fees associated with the...
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Adoption Update: It’s Official
Today was the most tiring day of the trip so far (outside of flying from the US to China). Here is a run down of what we did. -go back to the Welfare Center and receive our official adoption...
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Some Random Thoughts While in China
We arrived in the city of Zhengzhou on Monday and it has been raining cats and dogs ever since. Which hasn’t made it real fun getting around the city! We were supposed to visit a few sites today, but...
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Adoption Update: The Home Stretch
We are at the point where we can see the light at the end of the tunnel and begin to really think about returning home. Andrea completed the paperwork this afternoon for our consulate appointment on...
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Following A Dream
On September 10th of this year I traveled to China with Andrea and Abbie (our 7 year old daughter) to fulfill a dream of providing a home for a child without a family. That child is Malachi, a 15 month...
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Home For a Week
We’ve been home from China with Malachi for a little over a week now. It has been a lot of fun being a family of five- especially in the comfort of our own home. Malachi has been making so many...
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Adoption Update: Settling In
It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything about Malachi and how he is adjusting. Malachi has been in our lives for 8 weeks now and it has been the most joyous and, at the same time, the most...
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Adoption Update: Malachi Moves Up
It’s been a while since I’ve posted specifically on Malachi. We had a follow up appointment yesterday at CHOPS (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia). Aside for waiting what seemed like forever to be...
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Adoption Update: Malachi is Iron Man
When we entered the adoption process, we chose the route of adopting a minor-correctable special needs program. When we adopted Malachi, we knew that he had a few minor medical conditions that were...
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Happy Family Day!
Family Picture from July 2015 Today is the one year anniversary of Malachi joining our family. I cannot believe that it has been a year already. There has been so much change and growth in him and in...
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Adoption Update: Story of Malachi’s Healing
If you’ve stayed in contact with our family through this blog, Facebook, or in person you know that when we adopted Malachi he was very bowed legged. Ultimately he was diagnosed with Bilateral Blount’s...
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Adoption Crisis?
Relevant Magazine posted an article online yesterday with some statistics on international adoptions that were a bit shocking. The article is based from a State Department report (readable here)...
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It’s A Boy!
Last night on my Facebook page I posted the above picture as a little teaser to the news we want to share as a family. It was fun watching everyone’s comments fly in to a picture with no real context....
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Adoption Update: Thinking About a Name
Malachi thinking about what to name his little brother…or where the candy is hidden at. Naming our kids has been an important process for Andrea and I. We have felt that the names we give our children...
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Adoption Update: Every Dollar Counts
We’ve got some exciting news to share! You likely know that pursuing a private adopting, especially an international adoption, is an expensive undertaking. I wish it wasn’t so, but it is. Adopting a...
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