We Have A Baby!

Pei-Chi Yang

We have received our referral for our Taiwan adoption! This has come as quite a surprise as we weren't anticipating a referral until February. We have a beautiful daughter from the Yunlin province of Taiwan born on October 9, 2007. She was born full term, but was quite the little peanut weighing in at 5.25lbs and measuring 18.5". She has grown quite a bit in the past two months as she now weighs 8.8lbs and measures 20.5". Her Taiwanese name is Pei-Chi Yang (pronounced Pay-chee). We have been trying to figure out what Pei-Chi means in Mandarin, but haven't had any luck so far. We are currently reviewing her medicals with a doctor who specializes in international adoptions. Once we receive notice of a clean bill of health from her (we have no reason to believe she isn't perfectly healthy) we will formally accept the referral. Once that happens, we will be buried in paperwork trying to get our dossier off to the Taiwanese government as soon as possible. Once the courts in Taiwan have our documents, they will schedule a civil ruling where the judge determines if the baby was given up willingly, have the parental parties relinquished their rights, etc. If all goes well during the civil hearing, then a final hearing will take place and the baby will legally be declared our daughter and the birth parent rights are permanently terminated. Once the final hearing takes place, we will have between 1-3 weeks of notice before traveling to Taiwan. We will stay in country for 7-10 days and then return home with our baby. The whole process will hopefully be done by late spring early summer. We will keep you all up to date on what happens.

Thank you all for your many prayers and kind thoughts throughout this process. Also, a special thank you to those who participated in our spaghetti dinner fundraiser. We are enjoying Phoenix very much and are excited about what the future holds for us.

PS - Caleb absolutely loved that she was wearing Mickey Mouse 'Pajamas'. :-)