Welcome to part 2 of many; we will be traveling to China in 2010 to adopt our 4th child ( 2nd adopted child). We are adopting a boy with a cleft lip and palate from Nanning City (south China); bi-lateral CL./CP.
In part 2 we discuss budget, CL and CP details, his american name, and sending a package to ZongPei
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December 2, 2008 is the five year anniversary of our family’s “Gotcha” (Adoption)Day. In these five years, we’ve been more blessed than we could have ever asked or imagined.
Remember, WE are God’s plan for the orphan and the oppressed!
(Song is Geoff Moore’s “Swept Away” about his own Adoption experience.)
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Still the FLASHBACK, Justin’s POV:
But halted once they saw us, I know the reason why I had butterflies in my stomach now, I was afraid. Not of my mom but Shaelyn. I stared at outer space for a while but Mikaela coughed rather loudly to regain my attention. Weakly, I started speaking, “Hey guys, I want you to meet Mikaela Reed.” The room was silent, both were waiting for me to add a little more information on Mikaela and why we were holding hands. I started again, but much louder and confident this time, “She’s my girlfriend. She’s an upcoming new artist, The Dream’s protégé.” Both my mom and Shaelyn went, “Ohh, that’s why.” When they realized they had both said the same thing at the same time, they laughed. But not for long, Shaelyn and my mom both introduced themselves to Mikaela, and welcomed her. Telling Shaelyn Mikaela was my girlfriend was one of the hardest things I had ever had to do. I searched for any anger in Shaelyn’s face but was unsuccessful, she didn’t care. Oh wait, she did care but she was happy for me. She has neutral feelings for me; I’ll always be just her friend and boss.
END OF FLASHBACK
Justin’s POV:
I’ve been standing outside Shaelyn’s house for at least 5 minutes now and was literally melting. I put my pride to the side, and rang the doorbell.
Noone answered for quite a while, I looked at the driveway, no cars. That must have meant that no one was home, I turned around but just as I took the first step, someone had opened the door. I turned around once more and faced the door, instead of seeing Shaelyn. I saw nothing. Noone. Then I looked down, it was a little girl. What the frik? I thought this was Shaelyn’s house. She didn’t have a sister or brother or smaller siblings than her. “Yes, mister?” the little girl asked me sweetly. I smiled at the little girl, oh she was cute. Kid cute. She must have looked 5 or 6. “Sorry, I think I have the wrong-” I was interrupted by a familiar voice shouting from a distance, “Chloe, who’s at the door?” Relief swept through my body, “Shaelyn?” I whispered to myself, the little girl heard me. “SHAELYN!” she shouted, dang another little girl with a big voice. But she still looked cute. “There’s a boy at the door, and he looks very pretty.” Pretty? I am not pretty, I am handsome. But I was still flattered by her compliment.
Soon enough, Shaelyn walked towards the door, wearing a tank tap and shorts. My PA is mighty fine. Well, ex PA. “Oh.” I heard her/Shaelyn say.
FLASHBACK, the night Mikaela told Justin to let Shaelyn go:
Justin’s POV:
I had talked to my mom and she honestly disliked the idea. Disliked it? No, she absolutely hated it. I told her that it was my idea, since I didn’t want her to be angry at MY OWN girlfriend. We argued about it, but obviously I had won. It wasn’t much of a challenge for me.
My mom had left to do some ’shopping’, but I knew she wasn’t really. It was just one of the things she did when she was upset, shop ’til you drop. Of course, before I was famous, she was unable to do that, but she never was upset back then, I didn’t have a PA she literally loved like a daughter.
Mikaela had left so that I could get on with my business and what I mean by business is to fire Shaelyn. I had invited her to come round and obviously she was very confused, it was a Saturday night and it was her day off.
After 20 minutes of waiting, she had finally arrived, I made her sit down. It was quiet for a while but I spoke first, “Shaelyn…” This was going to hurt a lot, but if I was to keep Mikaela, I would have to Shaelyn go. Shaelyn sat with her ears wide open (not literally, lol) “It’s not that we don’t appreciate everything you’ve done for me and my mom but I think it’s time. That we let you go.” She didn’t speak for a while, I searched her face for any signs of anger, there were none. Her face was expressionless. ‘Oh’ was all she could manage to say before she left.
“You let her go that early, huh?” my mom asked me harshly, when she arrived back home. I nodded, and we spoke no more of it.
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Yeah, too many flashbacks. I’m sorry. Comment comment 
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Welcome home Jairus Cheng Yu!
Born: April 1, 2007
Adopted: August 25, 2008
American Citizen: September 11, 2008
Welcome home little man!
for more info visit www.alkemaeleven.com
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From the moment we met – to now…and FOREVER! To learn more about our family, and our Adoption process and being home, please visit us at www.alkemaeleven.com or www.freewebs.com/alkemaeleven
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This is the video story of our journey across the world to Vietnam to adopt our sweet baby girl in November 2006. For more, you can read my blog: http://www.SteppingOnLegos.com
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ANNE BRYANT TRUE STORY OF AN ADOPTE’S SEARCH AND REUNION WITH HER BIRTH MOTHER. WITH AN ORIGINAL SONG BY NORMA HUMAN.[C] 2008 GLORYVISION LTD.
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Hey there, We are Cyn and Rolf Skyberg from Silicon Valley, California, looking forward to growing our family through open Adoption. We are working with the Independent Adoption Agency (IAC) here in California. We are so happy to share our family and stories with you through this video and our website, skybergfamily.org. Please visit our website to get to know us, and our family, better! http://skybergfamily.org
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