Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful day. We are thankful for our many blessings: God's gift of his son for our salvation, our family, the ability to spend Thanksgiving with our grandparents, the fact that in a few short months Kai Wei and Sarah Grace should be HOME, a delicious Thanksgiving dinner, the technology that allows us to have video chats with the kids, a country where we are safe and free... We truly have many blessings.

There are so many others, however, who aren't as blessed, and I wanted to share this opportunity to be a blessing to them with you. Reece's Rainbow is an organization that helps children with Down syndrome be adopted. They sponsor children and help raise money for families who are in the process of adopting children with Down syndrome. This year, they are doing a Christmas fundraiser. Their goal is to raise $1,000 for each of the 85 children they are trying to find family's for. Visit their site, donate if you feel led, and pray for these children.



Many of them will be moved to mental institutions and receive very little care if they are not adopted. You can read about one family's journey to adopt Aleksa, a little girl with Down syndrome and get the code to put your own button link to Reece's Rainbow on the Cornish family's blog.

Another webchat!

We just finished our Skype conversation with Kai Wei AND Sarah Grace this time! What cuties! It was so fun to see Sarah Grace, and a bit of a surprise, because we weren't sure whether or not we would. It was also nice to see them together. This time I thought to take some screen shots while we were chatting, so I have photos to share! Look at their smiles. Aren't they beautiful?



We introduced the family cats this time, which made the kids smile, but Sarah Grace was a bit nervous about the dog. She asked why we wanted to have a dog. Hopefully she realized he was a friendly, mostly harmless puppy by the end of the conversation.

We got some good news during our conversation. Kai Wei's court hearing is on Wednesday! We're so excited about that, and he is too.

They said that Sarah Grace is adjusting well to life at Jonah House, and that she and Kai Wei are getting along pretty well.

It was fun to chat again tonight and learn a little more about the kids and see a bit more of their personalities shine through. Si Ya is a little monkey, (which I'd already gathered from my visit with her this summer) She loved making faces for the camera!
She wants to go roller skating when my parents go to Taiwan, she likes the color yellow, shrimp and apples. She wants a toy cell phone.

Kai Wei likes blue and prefers sweat pants to jeans. He remembers a lot of the things he has heard about our family or has seen in our photo album. He asked about our lake and knows that it is much colder here. He seems very interested in and excited by our animals. He seems easy-going and agreeable.
I just love to see his smile! He got his hair cut since the last time we talked to him.




我們 愛 你們 凱維 跟 思雅
We love you Kai Wei and Si Ya! We can't wait for you to come home.

WebCam Conference!

So it is so exciting! Tonight for the first time we saw our son and heard his voice! We had a video conference with Kai Wei via Skype. It was really fun. Almost the whole family was home. (But Jonathan who was very disappointed that he would be camping with scouts). Kai Wei was so happy and sweet. His English was great. He is very limited with what he can say, but we were impressed with his pronunciation. We think he will be very easy to understand.

We were ALL a bit nervous. But we all had fun too. In Taiwan Kai Wei's social worker was in the room with some other people and they were joking and laughing and helping to translate. And at our house we were all talking and saying hi and introducing him to each of us. He really seemed to like it when Timmy asked how old he was and then told him he was 17. He also liked the new puppy, Java and he said Daniel was cute and that he would pray for him on his birthday. (Which Daniel told him was next week). We are really excited to chat with him again.

We've also had some news on Sarah Grace. She is going to be moved to Jonah House next week! This was not anticipated. But we are hoping it turns out to be a good thing for her, Kai Wei and the whole family in general. I guess we may get a chance to speak with her in a future chat!

God is so good and tonight we thank him for technology that made this possible!