HE KNOWS US! Lots of updates!

 Someone lost his first teeth!  Mommies and daddies are suppose to be there for these "firsts".  Adoptive children's lives stem from many losses and we as adoptive families and communities will spend their entire lives trying to plug those holes and gaps with love.  Ultimately our responsibility is to point them to the one that will fill their heart with true healing, Jesus.  Only he can give them the grace, mercy and forgiveness to heal their wounded hearts.  We celebrate the pictures to see our little man in the months proceeding our formal adoption and we relish in the opportunity to be his family!  See you soon little man!

                                Reports said this guy is one happy little dude!

This is Jerry, one of the volunteers who traveled with Lifeline, and helped sponsor many of our shirts!  Looks like he made himself a new friend!

             

 Here's Aunt Katie, with our little man, and Jerry (volunteer) sporting our shirts at the orphanage!                                                      He's just a little guy!

What's it like the day you find out you've been chosen?  Someone has chosen you to be in their family!  For six years you have watched people come and go and now it's your turn.  If you look really closely, Katie is pointing to "Daddy" and if you can see the side of little man's face, he is smiling so hard with excitement!  A moment I will treasure knowing his heart is happy with joy!

This is the photo album we sent along for him to "introduce" his family to him.   He will get to know us through these pictures over the next few months while we await our snuggles and kisses.  We are so happy to have Katie to be our delivery person, but a little jealous too :)  Katie gets to love and meet our kids before us!  But oh so thankful for the hard work she does!

God has always provided but with that said..... adoption is very expensive and we are working on ways to raise the necessary funds.  We have sold about half our 100 t shirts and here are the kids making signs to advertise the shirts at the dirt bike races.  So neat to see the kids proclaim their faith and love of Jesus to their friends by wearing their shirts!  Will you consider supporting our adoption through a donation for a t shirt!  We have children and adult sizes still available. Grey or orange.  Email me at lkietzke@hotmail.com

                          Huahua sporting a T-shirt and a great spoke model for adoption!

 SISTERS ARE THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD!  THESE TWO ARE INSEPARABLE.

Brothers aren't two bad either, they tend to spoil me to pieces and give me just about anything I want.  Especially this one!

We had an adoption picnic with our local agency.  So refreshing seeing all these little faces of joy and love coming together to celebrate their families!  Thank you Lifelink!

  The kids and I were working hard to raise funds to bring their brother home!  The boys hauled the pumpkins down and neatly arranged them.  They only saved the largest one, only because we could not move it!) for our family and are selling the rest.  A lesson in self less love for others.

                       They had a great time in the process of setting up our pumpkin stand.

 Later that night though, Huahua landed in the ER with horrible stomach pain.  After many tests they concluded her intestines possibly twisted or telescoped on themselves.  Since her intestines are malrotated due to her heterotaxy syndrome. this was the likely culprit.  We will look into options for preventing this from happening again.

Within 8 hours she was feeling better but was admitted for observation due to the severity of the incidence and blood in her stool.    She keeps her doctors on their toes!

While I write this she is having her cardiac cathiterization done ( I have 3 free hours!) to help solve why her oxygen level drop during her periods of activity resulting in her bluish tint.  Will update when we have results and treatment plan!

 Yesterday, at the races Huahua and Jordan enjoyed grandma and grandpa time.  Huahua continually pulled Grandpa's necklace on and off for him!

Birthday BOYS!!!!  We celebrated Jackson and Feng Nianjie's birthday's yesterday at the races.  Jackson proudly held his brother's picture and helped him blow out his candle and eat his brownie!  Jackson can not wait till his little brother arrives and he can truly be a big brother to a little brother!

I think he is even giving the larger piece of brownie to Nian Jie, which for Jackson is huge!  Look he turns 9 and all the sudden learns that you really don't need the biggest piece to be happy!  Our parenting is finally getting somewhere :)

We are awaiting to hear about our grant applications before we announce our next fundraiser idea! Please be praying for our adoption process for things to run smoothly and how your family may walk along side of us.  We have had some glitches here and there with paperwork, but second time around I seem to take it in stride.  As I resent a piece of paper overnight to the courier in Chicago for authentication, I walked into the UPS store (Fitchburg), feeling a bit frustrated because I had screwed up the paperwork and caused a delay, "Oceans" was playing. And I said the the owner,  how refreshing it was to have this playing!

"Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Savior

Adoption is a journey of complete trust in the Lord and we will go across the ocean to an orphanage atop a mountain in CQ, where he has called us to bring home our little man, who has waited way too long for a family to call him their own.  He is worthy, He is loved, He is our son!