Babies!!!
The following blogs have pictures!
* Crowell Gang
* Sarjent
* Stebby China Adventure
* Happy Happy Joy Joy
* To China for Kai
* Waiting for Leah’s Sister Ava
* You gotta have a little faith
* Two Bookends
* Waiting for Juliana
* Adopting Anna
The following blogs have their referral, but no pictures yet:
* Veldehar
The following families in the SN program would like to share their news:
* Three Sweet Peas
* The Wait for Kate
* Nicholas Name=Nicholas Schmidt, Corey file
* Fireworks and Fireflies
* Heart Smiles
* Twice upon a time
If you would like your blog listed here please leave the blog name and blog URL in the comments and I’ll add it.
September 29th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Because we’ve always delighted in seeing the referrals from so many other families here on RQ, my sweet husband requested that we share our joy, too.
http://www.lilacpillow.blogspot.com
September 29th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
WooHoo: To the Crowell’s who are bringing home a Zhangshu Beauty just as we did in April 2006. Please join our Yahoo group! And with the same agency no less! AND, our agency was referred TWIN BOYS! First time I have ever seen that! Congrats to all of you! I remember this day oh so well!
September 29th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Because we’ve always delighted in celebrating other referrals here on RQ, my sweet husband wanted us to share our joy, too.
http://lilacpillow.blogspot.com/
September 29th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Wow!!!!! Twins… and BOYS!! This is the first I have ever heard of twin boys. A Hearty congratulations to you. (Aren’t you glad you forewent the pink???
:-)
M2I
http://www.babysites.com/sites/laureenmary
September 29th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Oh my word, anonymouswait, they’re GORGEOUS!!
Congratulations on your new sons!
September 29th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
anonymouswait——
WOW!!!!! Congratulations!!!! The boys are so cute!
September 29th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
anonymouswait, WOW! Congrats!
RQ, you can add us. We are a SN family. Website is http://www.andthentherewereseven.blogspot.com. It’s called The Wait for Kate. (We received LOA earlier this month.)
Congrats everyone getting referrals!!!
September 29th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
RQ-
We received our referral today! She’’s a beautiful little girl from Hunan province born on 2/12/2008 – she’s just seven months old! I’ll try and get her picture on the blog tomorrow – http://www.waitingforleahssisterava.blogspot.com
September 29th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Congratulations on all of you beautiful daughters and especially handsome sons.
Twin boys…..wow this would have to be a first. How exciting!
Keep posting….this is really what keeps the wait so much more bearable, to know there are such beautiful children finding families. Each month these faces light up our world and pull us into another month.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
OMG, twin boys!!!! Wow! They’re SO cute too!
September 30th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Congratulations anonymouswait…as a mom to a set of twins myself…I welcome you to share the double joy they bring. Your life is about to change in many wonderful ways. Twins are by no means double the work but for sure twice the fun.
Also congratulations to all the families that will meet their little ones for the first time during the next 24 hours.
samba in sac
http://www.talesfromthebigtomato.blogspot.com
September 30th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Congrads all ! Twin boys wow !!!!!! http://web.mac.com/veldehar/Site/Welcome.html
Here is ours for Ashlee
September 30th, 2008 at 10:15 am
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! What beautiful babies!!!
September 30th, 2008 at 10:41 am
CONGRATULATIONS to all of the families receiving referrals! So exciting!!! Thanks for sharing your photos, your children are adorable! :o)))
September 30th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Congratulations to all the families! Your children are beautiful. Can’t wait to see more.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Anonymouswait,
Just saw your updated blog post. My thoughts are with you as you go through this process.
All the best and XOXO.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:38 am
K we got our package! But were asked not to post pictures though ……. I am so sad! We are in LOVE!!!!!!!!
September 30th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Twin boys, congratulations!! They are adorable. We were referred a 2 1/2 year old boy in June, so always happy to see more boys referred. Our son is such a joy and yours will bring you double the joy!!
September 30th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
A big congrats on the new babies! Even though I will probably have a looong wait yet, seeing the faces of the newly referred babies keeps me going. Enjoy your little ones!!!
For those of you who were recently referred a boy, or have been referred a boy in the past, I’m just wondering about something. When you originally filled out your paperwork, did you request “either sex”? Also, I thought that pretty much all of the boys available are SN only. We originally chose China because we wanted a girl. I’m open to a boy, but my husband is not. Is there a chance our referral will be a boy? On our paperwork that was sent to China, it says that we’re expecting a girl, almost as though that’s the only option. Does anyone have any insight on this?
September 30th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
I am so happy for everyone. What a fun time!!! Enjoy!!!!
I really enjoy seeing all the little faces.
http://www.ourchinangel.com
September 30th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I’ve received a referral for Xiaoling, a beautiful girl living in Guangxi Province, born 8-7-07. You can see her pictures at
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=7479&l=a852e&id=1276640016
Congratulations to all the newly referred families!
September 30th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Congrats to all you parents. This was long awaited for. Happy for you all. Hang in there to the rest of us waiting. Our time will come.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Most of the people I know who were referred a boy put either, or they specifically requested a boy. A couple in
Utah, both Chinese requested a boy from a certain province and believe it or not they were referred just that.
However, there are those that did receive a referral for a boy, but I they are few.
Our ds is a boy, but we wanted a boy and older and he was
SN’s. However, decided on our ds from t he photographs and information that our agency provided. This was before the dramatic change in SN’s process.
Before our new dd joined our family through a disruption we would of considered another boy. We now have 2 dd’s and 1 ds.
Congratualtions to all those that received referrals. It is a wonderful time.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
We put either and got a boy! So glad DH painted the room yellow. They do try to put the boys to those who put either. It really depends on what babies they are placing that batch. The boy statistic was 10% and that included SN which is more a PAP led match and there are people who put down either boy or girl. So it’s very small chance. Our agency had said when we started that 97% referred are girls. So we understand that meant boys were available, just unlikely at 3%. I’m aware it’s a shock but I’m always curious why people felt that gender was a sure thing in their referral request? Maybe it’s all in the agency prep? I was uncomfortable with the idea we knew what we were having so we put down either. We didn’t have any kids yet and really didn’t have a preference. We are paperchasing again and put down either. I like the surprise.
September 30th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
We have a daughter!
http://www.sarjent.com/china
:)
September 30th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
lilacpillow,
Our thoughts and prayers are with you. We went through a similar thing this past Spring. It is never easy… I hope everything works out for you.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Krissy J: our home study agency told us that if you put either you can receive a boy or a girl. She told us a couple put down ‘either’, but figured they would mostly likely get a girl based on percentages. They were surprised when they got a boy.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Congratulations to all of the new parents out there! I love baby time!
Wendy
http://adoptionandfire.typepad.com
September 30th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
All your babies are gorgeous! Congratulations!!!!!!
Dirgy, in the past we’ve seen families post a photo of just their baby’s hand or foot. Maybe this would be okay for the time being? Still within the rules, yet being able to post a photo.
September 30th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Congratulations to all of you and your new kiddos! They are all simply beautiful!
September 30th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
We just got the call.
Please add our blog to the list. We will have pictures on Thursday.
We are over the moon with the news.
Please add out blog to the list.
http://waitingforjuliana.blogspot.com/
Madi
LID 02/15/06
DOR 09/30/08
September 30th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Hello, We have a Daughter!!!
http://www.tochinaforkai.blogspot.com
Lori
September 30th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Please add our blog to the SN list. We are so excited our prayers were answered for the second time.
http://www.twiceuponatime2007.blogspot.com
Faye
September 30th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
We will be travelling Oct 10 to Kunming to meet our new son. Please post our blog address: http://www.babyjellybeans.com Name=Nicholas Schmidt This trip is listed in the ‘Corey’ file.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:47 am
We got the call! So happy to share our good news!
http://ourhappyhappyjoyjoy.blogspot.com/
October 1st, 2008 at 7:49 am
We received our referral too – Twin girls! Please add our website. If the link below doesn’t work, go to http://www.babyjellybeans.com and enter first name Gianna, last name Tian.
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Visit our website at
http://www.twobookends.com
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Heather
2/13/06 LID
9/29/08 DOR
October 1st, 2008 at 10:21 am
KrissyJ, I am like you, I am open to either but my dh wants a girl. We originally put “either sex” and when we questioned our agency we were told our chances were actually a lot higher than that 3% because if we were the only ones in the batch that said either and their was only 1 boy in the batch then we would get the boy, it depends on how many in your batch said either and how many boys were in the batch. You can however change your cover letter to state that you request a girl. they said that you can not refuse a referral based on gender or if you did you would not get another.
LID 7-28-06
October 1st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Heather-
Okay, I just went to your website and saw your new TWIN daughters. I couldn’t even speak. How does one human being ever get soooooooo lucky!
Just so you know, you can never complain about anything ever again! Your life is wonderful! :)
Congratulations!!
October 1st, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Congratulations to all the new parents! I love it when dreams really do come true.
Rebecca :)
http://www.ourjourneytomeilin.blogspot.com
October 1st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I love all of the pictures! What beautiful children! Congratulations!
October 1st, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Congrats to all who get to see those beautiful faces…
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:46 am
Thanks for the information you share about new babies. So nice for waiting families to see the little faces!!!
I have one suggestion though…
You sort out the blogs in 4 categories (the one with pictures, the one without pictures, the SN, the one with music).
Well, I would add an additional one : blogs of expedited referrals. In fact, it is quite confusing to discover families LID late 2007 that had received THE CALL (lucky them).
Hope you understand my view.
Best regards
French Marianne
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:17 am
Please add our blog to the list
yougottahavealittlefaith.blogspot.com
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:13 am
FindingHope-
Thank you. You are so right. We are so lucky. I’ll try never to complain again! I am so in love with these girls already.
Heather
2/13/06
9/29/08
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:16 am
RQ,
Thank you for posting our link http://twobookends.com We have uploaded pictures under the heading referral pictures. Please move our link to those who have received pictures list. Thanks
Heather
2/13/06
9/29/08
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 am
Congratulations so all the new families!!!!!! I can’t wait to look at everyone’s blog and pictures!! How very wonderful and exciting!!
His,
Mrs. U
-mommy to Elizabeth, born in Yangchun, Guangdong, PRC
http://www.makingahouseahome.blogspot.com
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:53 am
We are a SN family that just got TA this week! We’re headed to China to meet our son (who turns 2 next week) on the 23rd. He’ll be in our arms on the 27th!
The trip should be a blast as we’re taking our 2 1/2 year old daughter (a Guangdong girl ~ adopted Feb ‘07) with us.
Congratulations to all the new referrals!
Kristi
http://fireworksandfireflies.blogspot.com/
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:13 pm
We just received TA for our little man, Johnathan. We appreciated so much having the chance to follow other’s journeys through here during each one of our “waits.” So we would like to add our site to the SN list so that other families waiting can choose to follow along as they wait. :)
Thanks so much and Congrats to all the referrals!
:)
Amie
http://www.heart-smiles.blogspot.com
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 am
We finally got our pictures today. Please post our blog. Thank you, RQ.
http://adoptinganna.blogspot.com/
October 6th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Hi could you please move our blog from NSN to SN’s, people are freaking out about our log in date. Everyone wants to know if we have been expidited, maybe this will answer some questions. Thanks, Todd