Saturday, August 25, 2007

It all comes together...

After weeks of toying with the idea of putting a blog together, Mackenzie helped me start this yesterday... and an hour later, we got the phone call from our agency letting us know China has approved our travel and we are set to go pick up Liam!! We are so excited and a little overwhelmed with all we need to do in such a short amount of time! It will all come together, I know, and I hope this blog helps our family and friends to follow us to China and share in the happy homecoming!

Currently, Liam is in an orphanage in the Shantou SWI (orphanage) in the Guangdong province of China. His Chinese name is Shan Le Yang. Shan, his "surname" for the city in which he was found, Le means happiness and Yang means fly high. Quite appropriate as his daddy is a pilot, don't you think? His "aunties" or caretakers at the orphanage call him "Yang Yang", which just makes him smile. His orphanage report states that he was named for his happiness and they hope he will grow up happy and have a happy life in the future. We intend to follow that through! We are all so happy to have Liam in our family and I can't believe that we'll be meeting him in less than three weeks!

The latest reports we have on Liam are from age fourteen months. He will be a complete year older than that when we get him, so we are excited to see how much he's grown. The orphanage has written a report about Liam (I'll attach this later) and it repeatedly says he gazes with black, sparkling eyes. His eyes do sparkle and we are all so excited to see how they'll sparkle in his new and forever home.

1 comment:

Andrea said...

He looks happy and adorable like all of the other Thompsons!