Our Little Helper

We have found out recently that Shae Rose is quite the helper. Amanda has told us that Shae Rose will sweep the floors, including using a dust pan, and has straightened up Amanda's room, including taking her dirty clothes to the laundry. She also helps pick-out the birthday cakes for the other children at Starfish. Above are pictures that Amanda sent of Shae Rose making bread. We had the pleasure of Skyping last night with Shae Rose and Amanda and it was such a great experience, but it does make us miss her even more. We were told that Shae Rose is telling everyone that she has a family and that she is coming to America. She is really excited about having a big brother, a dog, and a "Big Bath" (Swimming Pool). I laugh everytime I think of the "Big Bath". Hoping to find out the exact timeline soon as we are still waiting on our Travel Approval.

Meet Shae Rose

On January 19, 2010 we got to see our daughter Shae Rose for the first time. We switched to the waiting child list in the Fall of 2009 and asked God for discernment to know when we saw our daughter there would be no doubt it was her. God was faithful as we knew the first time we saw her. Shae will be 3 1/2 years old March 2nd and she is in Xi'an City. She is at Starfish Foster Home under the care of Amanda de Lange. We received our pre-approval on January 26th and our Letter of Acceptance on Febraury 8th which we promptly signed and sent back the next day!! God has placed so many people in our path over the past month that have met Shae and had pictures and/or videos of her and wonderful stories to share with us. On February 4th we got to see and talk to our daughter thru Skype. Amanda, the director, set this up and it was unbelievable to actually see and hear her talk. We have been in contact with a couple of families that have adopted 2 of Shae's friends from Starfish. The Chellis family lives in Maine and adopted Lily last March and the Strite family lives in Virgina and adopted Ellie last month. We are so grateful that Shae will be able to keep in contact with some of her friends. Now we just have to wait for our travel authorization which should come sometime next month and then we go to get Shae about 4-6 weeks after that.