Beginning the Journey

As most of you know, we are currently in the process of adopting a special needs boy from China. We are thrilled to let you know that we received our referral on February 12, 2007 and our pre-approval from China on May 1, 2007. Now that we have our pre-approval, we are telling all of our friends and family about our son!

We have decided to name our son Peter David after Wendy's uncle who passed away a few years ago and include XiCheng from the name he was given in China. His full name will be Peter David XiCheng Major.

Peter has already had surgery for a congenital heart defect. He will also need surgery for a minor genital defect. He is a beautiful, healthy boy!

We are anticipating that we will travel to China as early as July, 2007. Grace will be coming with us. She is excited about being a big sister even though she is only six months older than Peter.

Our adoption journey is one of faith and we need prayer to continue to walk in faith. Continual prayer for the rest of our journey is greatly appreciated.

We will continue to post here on the "Journey to Peter" blog as our journey progresses both here in the U.S. and as we travel to China. We love you all and are glad that you are able to share this journey with us.

As a side note, if you would like to follow our old "Grace from China" online journal about our daughter Grace's adoption, click here.