Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Names??

Okay, so over five years ago when we started the process to adopt another daughter from China, we had two names chosen:  Adyson Mae (Ady Mae) or Liberty Grace (Liby Grace).  Both Mae and Grace are grandmother names.  Throughout the long wait, our daughter became known as Ady Mae.
However, last week I was reading Mr. Popper's Penguins to my second graders and I read the name Adelina.  I liked it.  And then I thought, maybe our daughter could be Adylina?  Still Ady Mae, but Adylina which is maybe a bit more feminine than Adyson.  Does the spelling look too weird or is it too difficult to read?  Mulling over names here...

Monday, January 30, 2012

Ady Mae Update...

Today we received our first update on Ady Mae (unfortunately, no photos)!  At 17 months old, she weighs 19.8 pounds, is 28.2 inches tall, stands and walks on her own, can say "baba" and "mama", sleeps well through the night, enjoys dolls, waves and claps, and can move to music.  Sounds perfect to me!
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Introducing...


The newest Milchman!  Her name is Dang Qiu Yan- soon to be Adyson Mae Milchman (Ady Mae).  Her birthday is August 20, 2010.  She currently resides in the Luohe Social Welfare Institute in the Henan Province of China.  Our adoption paperwork was sent off to the immigration office and to China just yesterday by our adoption agency.  She is officially ours!  We now wait for permission to go to China and bring her home, most likely by June (never sure of the timing of things though).  It is all very exciting!  We are hoping to receive updated photos soon as these were taken when she was only 10 months old.  We think she is so cute!  We received her referral through the Waiting Child Program which is a program designed for adoption of children with special needs.  Ady Mae contracted Bacterial Meningitis as a newborn, but has fully recovered and is doing wonderfully according to all reports.  We are very lucky and cannot wait to bring her home.  And thanks to everyone that has helped us in our journey thus far.