Happy 4 year "Gotcha Day" Olivia!!!

I guess it has been a while since I have posted. Sorry about that! Things have been a little crazy in the Klein household since the referral of our newest Klein. We are still waiting. No news on TA yet, but hopefully we will be hearing something very soon. We are hoping to travel over Christmas! If not, then it will probably be the beginning of 2007. We are so anxious to go get Sophia.

Yesterday was a very special day. We celebrated Olivia Wu Han Klein's 4 year "Gotcha Day." Olivia was placed in my arms on November 18, 2002, in Nanchang, Jiangxi. Olivia was 8 months old and my first daughter. I can't believe that she is now a very busy 4 1/2 year old and one of the joys of my life (of course along with her sister, Chloe and soon to be sister, Sophia). It was also special becuase her newest sister, Sophia, is also from Jiangxi province and in a few weeks Steve and I will be meeting Sophia in the same hotel as I met Olivia (before Steve and I were married). The third reason is that yesterday was National Adoption Awareness Day. Very special.

Will post info when we get it. Have a very blessed Thanksgiving everyone!

Steve & Julie
Olivia (4) - Jiangxi
Chloe (3) - Hubei
Sophia (7 months) - Jiangxi

Meet Sophia Xiu Li Klein!!!!

Meet the newest Klein family member!!!! Isn't she adorable?!?! Look at all her hair!!! We are still on cloud 9 and can't believe that we have a 3rd daughter. We received our referral packet on friday, November 3rd. Sorry it has taken me so long to post her picture. This past weekend has been crazy with getting copies and telling everyone about our little girl. Olivia is very excited about her baby sister, however I don't think that Chloe quite understands yet.

We are still trying to locate information about Jizhou SWI. If anyone has any info, that would be greatly appreciated!!! CCAI says that we will most likely travel early January but it could be late December and maybe even around Christmas!!!! So..... this could definately be an interesting Christmas season. Olivia and Chloe are staying with my parents so they will have a Christmas celebration even if Alec and I are in China getting Sophia.

That's all I know! Enjoy!

~*~*~*~*~REFERRAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~*~*~*~*~

We received "THE CALL!!!!!!!!!!!" I'm still shaking over it and it was almost half an hour ago!!! Oh my gosh, I know who Sophia is!!!! Praise the Lord!!!!!!! We want to thank God above all else, CCAA for matching us with our precious daughter, CCAI for their excellent help for all 3 of our girls adoptins, Sophia's birth mother, and her orphanage for taking caring of her until we can get there to bring her home!!!! Without anymore procrastinating, I introduce SOPHIA!!!!!!!!!!


Chinese Name: Ji Xiu Li

Soon to be: Sophia Xiu Li (we think!)

DOB: April 11, 2006 (almost 7 months old, she's so young!)

Residing: Jizhou SWI (city of JiAn)

Province: Jiangxi (this is the province Olivia is from!!!)

She was found on April 14, 2006 at 3 days old. She was left with a note stating her birthdate. We don't believe she is in foster care, but is at the orphanage. We receive "THE CALL" at 3:34 p.m. on Thursday, November 2, 2006. We are going back to Nanchang to get her! We will travel most likely in late December or early January. We could be gone over Christmas!!! We will get pictures tomorrow.

I have not been able to find out much about JiAn. I don't know how close it is to Jingdezhen (where Olivia is from). I can't believe I have ANOTHER Jiangxi girl! Praise the Lord, we know who Sophia is!!!!!!!!!!!!


Julie Klein
DH: Alec
DD: Olivia Wu Han (4) b. 3/9/02 a. 11/18/02 from Jingdezhen, Jiangxi
DD: Chloe Li Quan (3) b. 8/27/03 a. 8/1/04 from Huangmei, Hubei
DD: Sophia Xiu Li (7 mon.) b. 4/11/06 a. ????? from Jizhou, Jiangxi
CCAI for all 3!!!!!

The STORK is flying!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are on their way!!! RERERRALS ARE ON THE WAY!!!!! CCAA finally upated their website and this is what it says:

The CCAA has finished the placement of children for the families whose adoption application documents were registered with our office before August 25, 2005.

YIPPEEE!!!!!!!!!!! I think today is the day!!! I may be posting about sweet Sophia later TODAY!!! I can't take this anymore!!! I'm going CRAZY!!!!!!!! My baby is on her way to me! (well her picture at least!).

On their way!!!!

According to RQ, it is believed that referrals are on their way and expected TOMORROW!!! I'm going crazy right now!!! They also said that they believe 8/24/05 LID's will be included. However this doesn't affect us much since we have an 8/11/05 LID and KNOW that we'll be included in this batch after just missing the last cut-off of 8/9/05. So...... we may know who Sophia is tomorrow!!! Our agency hasn't said for sure as they are conservative and don't want to give our false hopes. I'm in such a better mood now!!! I love November!!! : ) So will 11/2/06 be the special day?!?! We're almost there!!!! I also know who my sweet Sophia is!!!!

On a side note, we had a lot of fun trick-or-treating with the girls. However I kept catching myself thinking about how next year will have Sophia trick-0r-treating with us. This was Olivia's 4th Halloween and Chloe's 3rd. I can't wait to have Sophia with us next year. I keep wondering how old she is and where she is from. Is she from Jiangxi like Olivia or Hubei like Chloe? Or myabe Guangdong, Hunan, Guangxi, or another province? I'm guessing that she is 8 months old which means she was born in February. Will she be close to Olivia's birthday? Alec says she's about 12 months which would be October and closer to Chloe's birthday. I'm SO anxious!!!!!

Hopefully I'll have some VERY exciting news to post about tomorrow!!!! I got my questions all set by the phone (of course they have been there for months) and the camera is all set!!! Sophia, mommy's ready for you!!!!!!