I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and took time to be thankful for all the wonderful things in your life. We didn't do a lot, sat around, played some games with the kids and ate a nice fillet dinner. In the midst of the day I received notice that I had been approved for access to a Yahoo group for families who have or are adopting from the same orphanage our lil Angel is currently living. I immediately jumped on to see what great information they had to offer and one of the recent posts was of a family who was there picking up their child. While they were there, on November 5th, they had a chance to visit the orphanage and took many photos of the children there. Well low and behold I went a flipped through them and found a photo with Angel being held by one of the caregivers!!! Not only do we now get to see how she currently looks, because the photos from her adoption file are about 6 months old, it also shows the side of her face we have not been able to see in the photos we have. This is important because of the birthmark, we were unsure how much of that part of the cheek it covers.
I have e-mailed this updated photo to the specialist and he e-mailed back that he'd try to give us a call today or tomorrow to discuss his suggestion for removing the nevus/birthmark.
So you can see our day was wonderful with her precious face added to it.
Many blessing to you all!
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Our Adoptoin Timeline
Summer 2006 – Discussed adopting and researched agencies
Registered with Gift of Love – 9/20/06
Binder/Process orientation/ Paper chase begins – 9/25/06
HS – 10/3/06-11/4/06 Complete – 12/13/06
DTC – 3/1/07
LID – 3/22/07
Nov 2008 – Gift of Love Merges with America World
Discovered our little girl on Waiting Child list – 11/6/08
LOI – 11/25/08
PA – 12/23/08
RA – 1/22/09
TA – 2/27/09
Travel Dates - 3/12/09-3/25/09
GOTCHA Day - 3/16/09
Registered with Gift of Love – 9/20/06
Binder/Process orientation/ Paper chase begins – 9/25/06
HS – 10/3/06-11/4/06 Complete – 12/13/06
DTC – 3/1/07
LID – 3/22/07
Nov 2008 – Gift of Love Merges with America World
Discovered our little girl on Waiting Child list – 11/6/08
LOI – 11/25/08
PA – 12/23/08
RA – 1/22/09
TA – 2/27/09
Travel Dates - 3/12/09-3/25/09
GOTCHA Day - 3/16/09
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1 comment:
Hi! I'm an AWAA mom too. We traveled in Jan. of 08 (bummer...not before Christmas either) to get our little girl with a large nevus on her face. I'm so curious about your daughter! I've had several families look up our blog who have since adopted nevus kids, but none of them had a little one whose face had the "birthmark".
I'd love to hear what your doctor said when the info. was sent. We were a little nervous at first, but after many less surgeries than expected, she's almost mole free. She has had zero complications and tolerated everything so well! This nevus thing was easier than expected. Please e-mail me if you'd like to compare nevus'es sometime(that sounds funny, but I don't know how else to say it?).
God Bless!
Angie Hendren
www.ourchinagirladoption.blogspot.com
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