New Update

We got a new update via email. It was so wonderful to read about him actually knowing about us. I will give you a few quotes from it. "He eats any food given to him." Does this sound like my child already or what!?! "He loves fruit and cookies. He has a great appetite." Again, sound familiar? This is the really good part! "His foster parents explain to him that he has a permanent family, a father and a mother...He recognizes his adoptive parents in the photos. He loves to look at the photos of his adoptive family members." "Through the explanation by the foster parents, (he) understands he now has adoptive parents. He asks his foster mother "When does my adoptive parents come to receive me?", or "Why does she not yet come to receive me?" Jennifer says he is already blaming her! "(he) gets along well with the children of his class. They love him much. His foster family members and his neighbors are very happy that he now has an adoptive family." This is just absolutely wonderful news to us. Although we know that waiting on the government is hard, we can now see how hard it must be on him. Please pray for patience and understanding. Also, praise a wonderful and loving God for giving Hoang a blessed home to stay in until he can be home here. I will leave you with a quote from a book that Jennifer is currently reading. It sums up our feeling quite appropriately. It is from the book, "Adopting the Older Child" by Claudia L. Jewett. "We didn't adopt out of pity, although compassion was there; we adopted because we deeply wanted a larger family and we felt this was a good way to go about it. We didn't see adoption as a cause, although social consciousness was there; we adopted because we really like to be parents...We didn't adopt because we are noble, unusual people; we adopted in spite of our shortcomings..." Also, I will add, we are adopting because God put us on this path and we are gladly skipping down it! Love to all! Let us know what you think. You can leave us comments.