Introducing...Liya!

We are thrilled to announce that we have found our daughter in China! Her name is Fu Ni Hua, and we will be naming her Liya (pronounced Lee-Ya). It means "belonging to God," and in Chinese the name Li means "beautiful" and the name Ya means "elegant."


Liya was born January 16, 2006, so she's 9 1/2 months old right now. She's in foster care in the JiangXi province of China. Our agency is estimating that we should be able to travel to China to get her in about 4 to 6 months. Some of you may think I'm crazy since my last post was about how long the wait it and that we have at least another year to wait. Well, all we can say is that God showed us this little girl on our agency's latest waiting child list and we knew she was ours! We are so excited!

Bohdan is actually anxious for his sister to come home too. He and I went grocery shopping the other day. As we pulled into our driveway he said, "Hey! I thought we were gonna get Liya!" Apparently he thinks China is at the grocery store! He asks several times a day if we're going to go get Liya and bring her home.

The next few months will now be busy as we prepare for our daughter to come home. We can't wait until we can post pictures of our whole family together!