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mented that he is a true miracle as the location of his hydrocephalus should have caused visual impairment and intellectual delays well i can positively say there are no delays in this kid he is so so bright his english is amazing and he understands much of what is said to him when school started we had planned to home school daniel until he gained enough english to handle a school setting well our lovely little school has worked it out for us to attend in the first grade class with me accompanying him as his one on one aide i know one of the reasons his english has taken off is the language rich environment he is in every day i know this season will be short as soon he won t need me to go with him but for now i cherish the time i get to spend with him each day we are so blessed and thankful for the way the lord has placed amazing resources in our path first day of school wearing his cat in the hat while practicing math facts in addition to daniel s schooling i am taking a couple of courses toward my degree again this semester it has been rough juggling everything but i know it will be worth it nina auditioned for the music production of annie and is cast as one of the orphans it is a busy rehearsal schedule but she is very excited to be in her first production we have had a few other medical needs pop up with the children and currently have one child scheduled for surgery over the christmas break with the possibility that others may also spend their holiday break recovering from procedures with all this daily craziness i have been reluctant to participate in the annual angel tree project that i have done each year with reece s rainbow i must be completely out of my mind because i am doing it i rationalize that whatever i can do for my angel is better than nothing i hope i don t let him down but i have to maintain a realistic expectation too the goal is to raise 1000 for my angel by december 31 that is a huge goal but every penny added to his grant will help his future forever family bring him home i pray this is his last year on the angel tree so without further delay i would like to introduce my 2014 angel mickey click on this link to donate all proceeds are tax deductible isn t he adorable he has been listed for several years on reece s rainbow but continues to wait for his forever family to find him could you be his mama or daddy if not could you share him via social media we need to share his sweet face with everyone i pray this is his last year on the angel tree and next christmas he is home with his family posted by shannon at 7 34 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest the draft that never got published until now no we did not fall off the face of the earth if you have adopted before you know how things are at home those first few weeks the jet lag was hard this time both lou and i got a stomach bug that lasted a week all while trying to assimilate our new son to his new home family and environment our split ranch in the foothills is quite a bit different from the hustle and bustle of chinese city life everyday he learns more english but we rely heavily on google translate still he has a delightful sense of humor and loves to use his new language skills to tease us he knows many of the fruits and animals in english and likes to call us monkey or banana he also loves to chant shake a baba or shake a mama we aren t entirely sure what that means but he says it in a joking way and we always appease him by doing a little dance and responding to shake a chong chong he does answer to his english name daniel but chong chong sounds so much better when we are being playful daniel does miss some things about china but i am sure as time passes he will less and less for now though he pines for chinese food as well traveled americans living in a diverse region of the country we eat a varied diet representative of many cultures our family does eat chinese food but we also eat indian mexican italian and moroccan in addition to the typical american cuisine in china as well as many other countries the diet is homogenous i cannot imagine eating chinese food everyday for all my meals but if you always did our menu might be a shocker he is a good sport most of the time but sometimes he just makes a x with his arms to show me no way so while the other children happily chow down on waffles oatmeal or toast daniel is sipping down ramen for his breakfast i can say that each day with him i fall more in love our other children have done well with his arrival there have been a few bumps in the journey but for the most part he fits into the family perfectly so now what well the children return to school in august daniel s english is not developed enough to handle a classical school education just yet so i will be working with him at home until he understands enough he is super smart so i imagine he will catch up to his peers in the next year if not earlier and will join the girls at school as well are you done as in adopting more children i would never say never but six is kind of a large family and we are getting older lou reminds me regularly that we personally cannot save all the orphans i realize that as well but sometimes i need reminding depending on which statistic you read the number of orphans worldwide is anywhere from 147 to 163 million even at the low end of that statistic it is a staggering number to comprehend i will do my best to advocate support and pray for these children and invite you to join me in making a difference my next post will highlight ways we can help make a difference and a dent in these depressing statistics posted by shannon at 6 01 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 26 2014 9 999 steps to nowhere yesterday was our consulate appointment it s a bit anticlimactic after all the paperwork fingerprints and interviews we have been through in the last year but nevertheless it is behind us we raised our right hands and swore that everything we have said and submitted to process this adoption is true they take our fingerprints and tell us daniel s visa will be ready for pick up the next day yay since we knew we had several free days we decided it might be nice to visit a site outside of the city we wanted to catch a peek of some of china s natural beauty away from the sea of skyscrapers heavy traffic and noise of the city we researched and found this lovely park about an hour outside of guangzhou it has a hiking path up the mountain with 9 999 steps dotted with spectacular waterfalls coming from drought ridden california this sounded wonderful we had been looking forward to this excursion but honestly everyone woke up so very tired and had we not already booked the driver and guide would have preferred a couple more hours of sleep we figured we would pay big time for our exhausting hike in the heat but the chance to see the country would be worth our fatigue so we left the city very early in the morning for bai shui zhai the countryside is lovely and we drive through several large city areas and smaller villages winding our way up a mountainside as we pull up to the gate to enter we are flagged by a park employee waving his hands over his head motioning not to enter oh oh this does not look good our guide gets out to speak with the employee and then comes back with a disappointed expression the park is closed the monsoon season has taken a toll on the park there has been too much rain recently and the trails are either damaged or impassable we never got a clear explanation what the actual problem is just that there has been too much rain so they had to close bummer our guide and driver feel horrible that we can t go to this park and offer to take us to another pretty location that is not too far from this one we agree and say we just hoped to visit a pretty location so we head off toward the next park the driver winds through several different villages the scenery is filled with many farms of lychee orchards and dragon fruit these villages do not get many foreigners and we are quite the sight to view i can see the driver s gps device from my backseat and see we are getting very close to the park as we round a corner to enter the highway we face a major roadblock the bridge for that road is closed and many signs and large rocks are in the way great now what well a local man on a motorbike drives up to us and our driver has some sort of conversation with him the man is going to lead us through the village to go around this road block awesome our driver follows the little man zipping through the village to the mountain roads and finally through a very narrow orchard he stops at the orchard and gives our driver some more oral directions basically we follow this road till the t stop and turn right to head up the mountain our driver pays the little old man i am wondering if our local guide has just ripped us off and left us to fend for ourselves in the middle of nowhere the farm road is super narrow and we have several oncoming cars that make passing difficult at one point lou gets out of the van to direct traffic so the vehicles can pass each other oh my goodness we are having a blast our guide keeps apologizing but we assure her that we are quite okay with our adventure so we wind up this mountain road toward the park the little man did not rip us off yay there are several restaurants inns and residences on the side of the mountain they advertise with pictures of food and chinese writing that neither lou nor i can read at one point we see a restaurant sign advertising wife what the heck someone is looking for a wife haven t they heard of match com or eharmony well i guess they don t really need a wife but rather are advertising that they have wifi chinglish signs are pretty common as translations aren t always exact i wonder how many folks stop to use the wifi there so we reach the park gate and wouldn t you know it is also closed i guess this park has similar issues as the last park we are now at the top of a mountain and have spectacular views of the countryside there are two waterfalls in view blue skies and a breathtaking view of the valley below our guide laughs at our bad luck but again apologizes that this one is also closed we honestly do not care an iota we are seeing the countryside and loving it after taking a some pictures we hop back in the van and our driver suggest a lakeside location that is always open to tourist we re game for whatever daniel is doing well in the car he hasn t gotten carsick on us and tends to even cuddle up and snooze on our laps we head back down the mountain through the village and find the main highway once again after several u turns we end up at a lake resort with hot springs the lake isn t a swim and play kind of lake it looks murky and i m sure any icky pollution in a twenty mile radius has flowed into this lake there are several resorts though and i guess one has some nice hiking our guide goes to get the information but comes back with an embarrassed smile on her face it is closed too much rain okay we give up we get out to stretch and walk around a bit before heading back to the city the little village has some unique items for sale wood and stone artwork we end up getting a killer deal on a beautiful piece that we would have spent at least double on if we bought it in the city and ten times that in the states we are ecstatic so we may not have hiked our 9 999 steps but we sure did have a day of fun and adventure plus we are not going to feel like a mac truck ran us over tomorrow win win tomorrow night we fly home please pray for daniel and us we are not looking forward to the long international flight but are eager to get home and introduce our little stinker to the rest of the family if you have followed us through this adoption we thank you for your prayers support and kind words we have truly felt loved and supported by y all through this entire process my next post will be once we arrive home our day guide lee with daniel posted by shannon at 8 48 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday june 24 2014 lions and tigers and bears oh my yesterday was a shopping day on shamian island it brought back so many sweet memories of nina and phoebe s adoptions as we shopped in familiar stores and ate at luci s restaurant once again the island has changed a bit since the closing of the famous white swan hotel the children s playground is now gone and there are fewer shops than years past but many of the lovely items we found before our still here daniel did not enjoy our shopping escapade and every shop felt like i had brought in a bull to a china shop he blew on horns begged us to purchase every cheap plastic toy he saw and of course wanted candies sometimes i felt like he had several more arms than the two he has poor kid hopefully we made up for it today our consulate appointment is not until wednesday and we don t fly out until friday night so we have lots of free time today we visited chimelong safari park without a doubt this was the best zoo experience i have ever had other than the million degree temperatures and humidity we enjoyed everything about this zoo first the little train takes you around part of the park you are up close and personal with no cages for the animals they must keep all the animals well fed and or drugged because they all paid absolutely no attention to any of us once we were done with the safari ride the remainder of the zoo has lots of wonderful exhibits that allow us to view the animals easily we saw a cute elephant show nothing spectacular but daniel wanted to see it so we went the panda center had several pandas including a baby under one year it was the coolest spot in the park literally not only is the ac on full blast in the center but those lucky pandas must need a cool environment as there were sheets of ice that some were sleeping on like a mattress i envied them we got to do several things that i doubt we would ever be able to do in the states all three of us fed a baby tiger a bottle it was too cute i think i could have gone home happy after that we also got to feed the giraffes and the monkeys it was amazing to feel the strength of the giraffe as it pulled the leaves of the bough we held the monkeys were adorable they would actually jump in their water and stand right below you to get fed some of them would catch it in their mouths before it hit the ground or water you could definitely see a pecking order the big ones would holler at the smaller ones and scare them off we made a special effort to throw some food for the small guys too i cannot imagine ever having a better experience at a zoo well maybe if the temps had been 30 degrees cooler please pray for us and daniel we are having some trying behaviors nothing horrible or unexpected but nevertheless not easy i have to keep re...