Introducing (new baby, new blog)

Our 'little flower'

and for those not on FB, a little added surprise which was made official this past week...


...her 'twin'
...our third son
...and fifth child

The nannies at the orphanage call him "Chairman"
...because he resembles Chairman Mao

Not biological twins but we are calling them our Chinese twins because they are the same age, born just a day apart.

We are out of our heads.

It will be another 5-6 months before we can travel. We are veterans of waiting but this will be the most trying exercise of patience to date. I beg your prayers as we must wait for these next few months tick by.


So girlfriends, all this means that I am officially nuts a momma-of-many. The infertile chick has her hands full and become the mother of FIVE. And I will be blessed with the twins I've always wanted but never dared to hope for. 

The Lord is kind and merciful...but I surely do not deserve this.

***Because this blog is more private by nature, we have created a new blog to chronicle our China adoption journey for friends and family. More details (and probably more frequently posting) will be found there: Enlarge They Tent

Please pray for us and these babies. Pray that we can have the graces necessary to parent them as they both have some special needs and are coming to us older than we've had any child join our family. Pray that they are being held and kissed and nurtured and loved until we can hop an Asia-bound flight. Because half of my heart is on the other side of the globe.

There names will soon be Marianna Therese and Joseph Michael.

Our very own Mary and Joseph.

My cup overflows.