The finishing Touches!!!!!

Dadda putting up the light fixture

Momma helping put together a toy shelf for the closet

Madisyn's Room

Christmas

                  Me, Jason Klaus and Eleanor

                              Jason and Myself

                  Brandon ,Antia, Matthew and Rob Motz

Renate

                                  Tony & Susan

Schraud Family Christmas

                                      Rob and Anita Motz, Jason , Me and Grandma Schraud

Christmas Eve Pics

Just waiting for the family to arrive

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Just wanted to wish my princess a very merry christmas!!!Next Christmas things will be different.

First Appointment For Madisyn with the Cleft Team in Hamilton

Our first appointment is very soon..January 6, 2011 @ 9:00am in Hamilton. We are meeting with a lady by the name of Sue Eastman and she seemed very patient and soft spoken on the phone today. Gotta love the calmness in her voice. Jason is the one that will be doing most of the follow up appointments , which I am nervous about him passing all the information on. He is a wonderful man, will be a wonderful baba (dadda) but sometimes he fogets "important " information. we will see what they have to say. A little excited...a little nervous as well.

This is how I feel...please listen

4 weeks Today!!!!

It's been four weeks today that we first seen our sweet baby's face. Wow, time is sure flying but not fast enough. We'll be there soon baby girl.

Christmas Present

Today was a funny day for Jason. He was given a present from his lead hand at work and was told to wait until he was home to open it. He had to drop all the baby's medical information off to Dr. Neary and made a detour to starbucks and then came home. After arriving home , we opened the present together and this is what it was. Her name is Maddison. We spell it Madisyn. She has hair extensions and everything. LOL Too cute Brad. It's great.Thanks.

Getting close to Christmas!!!

As time is creeping a little closer to Christmas, my heart is a little sad. Now knowing who and what my daughter looks like and she is not here with us , makes us a little sad. I wonder if they celebrate Christmas where she is living right now? Not having mom here is another reason that I can't enjoy the holidays, I wish she had never moved away from us. She'll never know how much that hurts. Being a mom now, is killing me to be apart from her. I can imagine how my mom feels right now.
     Something that has made a a little happier is that Jason's dad and Eleanor saw their granddaughter for the first time on friday. Knowing that we can be in the same room and be a family does put a smile on my face. We love you dad and Eleanor.
     I have all my christmas shopping done and wrapped. Jason is getting harder and harder to buy for. He has everything and golf balls just dosen't cut it for me. The tree has been up for a while and I am almost done all the baking I am going to do. This is the last Christmas as a family of 2 and can't wait to be a family of 3.

To everyone to reads this post, We wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The new year will bring us great joy.

More Information About Our Little Girl!!!

So, I have busy trying to find out anything and everything I possibly can about our little Angel in China. I found this website China-research.org. This is a man by the name Brian Stuy, who himself is an adoptive parent from China, collects newspapers and whatever he can get his hands on from China. He has the newspaper and all the information about Wang Feng Yan and the day of her arrival at the orphanage. He is sending me whatever he has from that June 2,2009. Just a little excited to get her finding ad. We love you little girl.

3 Weeks today!

Today has been 3 weeks since we got the wonderful news and seen our sweet baby's face for the first time. Time is now going slow and we are wanting to travel now. We are waiting for TA and hoping to travel late February or early March.

Also, we are expecting to hear something back about her MRI this week. Please pray that is everything is perfect with her results.

December 7th Already

    Jason and I are a little happier today. We got a sweet surprise from Jason's dad. Thank you Klaus!

    Well, as time keeps passing , Jason and I keep wondering what our little princess is doing and what she looks like 4 months after her lip being repaired. I am not sure if she can get any cuter. I am so in love with her. We also wonder about her well being. Is she warm enough, are they treating her different now that they know that she is going to be leaving soon, is she getting enough food, is she happy. These things keep me awake at night. I can't wait until we have her 24/7.

    All I can say is "Madisyn Feng yan Schraud , we love you and we can't wait to be with you!

Dr. Margaret Lawson's Report

Has we wait for travel approval, Jason and I are going to enjoy our last christmas as a family of 2. We are over the moon about becoming a family of 3. We just received Dr. Margaret Lawson's Report about our sweet little girl. Here is what she had to say;

* she looks lovely ( We think so too...LOL)
*She is small....in the 4% ile
*proportionate for her height is 1% ile
*head circumference is good...23% ile
*Development reports looks within range expected for her age
*Speech delays would be anticipated given her cleft palate

That all sounds really good but we are still a little worried about the MRI yet to come. God knows best but We love this little girl so much. Please pray for her as time goes by. She is in for some huge changes in her life and I am a little sad for her, her biological mom and her foster family. Please keep all of us in your thoughts and prayers as we travel to bring her home.

MRI

We are waiting the results of Madisyn's MRI. I am hoping nothing shows up in that. we love her so much already. Please pray for us.

1 week already!!!

Today has been one week since we seen our sweet baby girl's face. I hope the next few months go by quickly. I can't wait to bring her home.

Saturday!!!

Now that it's a little quiter and the phone has had a chance to charge, Jason and I are thinking about the Piller's Christmas party tonight and decorating for Christmas. We wish that Madisyn was here but it's just a matter of months now. I still can't believe that the waiting to be matched is over and the waiting for TA (travel approval) begins.

One of the families that we did Adopttalk seminars with got referred their little girl too. I hope we get to travel together. All in all, Jason and I are very proud parents.

Madisyn Fengyan Schraud

So here is the information about our sweet little girl.

* She has cleft lip and palate. The lip has been repaired. The referral pictures were before her hospitalization. Everything else is normal.

*She is 8.8kg

*67cm in height

*43cm head size

*45cm in chest size

*eats4-8 times a day (powdered milk, biscuits, congee)

*can roll over

*can crawl

*can sit up freely

*likes cuddling

*not nervous to strangers (ack!!!)

* good coordinative ability of hands and eyes

*is able to grasp simple objects,

*likes dolls

* likes to tear paper

Here she is:

Busy Week!!!!

Sorry, I haven't posted anything here in a few days but it's been nuts here.So, a little more information. On November 22 @11:36pm Cathy Murphy and Shelley Merriner called from Children's Bridge with the exciting news. Jason and I thrilled to pieces and still floating. Here is the picture of the email in our inbox.

Finally!!!!!

So, last night @ 11:32pm we finally got the call withy our referral. we are completely over the moon. She is beautiful in every way and can't to bring her home. I have to figure out how to get her pics on here.

Something to Occupy My Mind!

I wanted something to occupy my mind, along with doing something for Madisyn. well, I can't knit or sew but I can draw. I like to draw pictures and do the shading and stuff by dots. This pictures is actually all done with dots. Yes, I wrote that correct, DOTS! I will keep posting pictures as I get more done.

Is it Monday night yet?

 I never thought I would wish a weekend to be over, but this is one weekend that I wish was over already. I am preparing myself for another month with no match. I am protecting my heart. I really wish to see her sweet face but so afraid of no available match.

I sit and think of all the things Jason and I have been thru in the pass 8 years and tell myself that this waiting should be easy. It's the hardest ever. I fertility treatments, I knew within my heart that they were never going to work. This is just a process of paperwork being there at the right time. Dear lord please, Jason and I need our little princess.

FINALLY !;-)

So we finally heard that the new SN list will come out November 23 in China, which is night time , November 22 here. I hope you are there baby girl!

Still Nothing..Come on China!!!!!

We haven't heard anything. I think Madisyn is just showing her personality. Stubborn like her momma! I am hoping to hear something tomorrow. I will post as soon as I hear. I am wondring if it's because of Thanksgiving in the USA? I am getting physically ill to the stomach. This waiting is so hard. Hope to see your sweet face soon baby girl.

Phone Broken????

Well, I am sitting here, waiting patiently for that phone to ring. I wonder if it's broken? LOL. I want to pick up the phone and call Children's Bridge so bad but I know they will call when they have information to pass on. Only smokes this waiting is brutal.

RING PHONE ,RING!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday morning and we are patiently waiting for the phone to ring telling us when the new SN list comes out.

Today is the start of the week that the new SN list will come out. Cathy Murphy @ Children's Bridge is off on Mondays. ACK!!!!! I haven't heard anything on Rumor Queen either about the actual day either. I am going crazy!!!!!!So, this means we will need to wait until tomorrow to hopefully hear something

We are so wanting to travel with our friends, Normand and Shau. They received their referral about 2 1/2 weeks ago. Fingers crossed and please say a prayer for us.

Momma's birthday

So, today is my birthday! All I really was wishing for was picture of my sweet baby's face. I woke with Jason bringing me a gift bag and asked me to open it. Inside there was underwear and bra (matching of course)haha. A silver bangle with 2 pairs of earring to match. One with diamonds and one without.Later that night, we went to del dante's for dinner. We we discussing that this will the last birthdays that we would have to celebrate without Madisyn. Here are a few pics the presents. Oh , Johnny Reid Tickets part of the deal too.

Johnny Reid tonight

So tonight we are going to Johnny Reid @ the Centre in the Square. This is probley the last concert we will go for a while. I can't to have Madisyn a reason to not do something.I love the fact that she is almost here. Patiently waiting.

For those of you who haven't seen Madisyn's room , here are a few pics.

Bare with me as I try and figure out how to add pictures to the blog. I need help.Anyone?

This morning I just revisied our packing list once again. I am not sure where they expect you to fit clothing in here with all the other stuff they suggest you bring. Well, I hope we don't go over weight. lol.

For those of you who are just starting to follow or know about our adoption, here is a quick update.
Jason and I have had our dossier in China since February 2007. When we started , our social worker told us it would be a 2 year wait. Well, things changed and now they are saying it could be years. Jason and I struggled with the thought of having to wait years. So , we did some soul searching and research on adopting a child with a minor correctable need. So decided and called Children's Bridge. Then we had to go thru another screening process and having to wait for another approval from the canadian government.So, now that all paperwork has been approved and China has our updated paperwork and here we sit wait. November will be our third month waiting in th SN program and I hope we are matched this month. The new SN list will come out between Nov17-20. Please pray for us!

We did some more shopping for the journey today. We bought some meds that they are suggesting we bring. Allergy stuff, cherrios, snacks, all kinds of stuff. The one thing I know that a lot of kids are enjoying for a snack is sea weed. Jason mentioned it today while out to the superstore and we picked up three packages. We had to buy hat and mittens and some things for us,(pepto, gravol ).We are getting extremely excited. Jason said that he is getting nervous about going to China. Everything is going to be great. Stay tune because I will post pictures along the way. I will post her referral pic also.

Well, it's November 4th,2010 and we are patiently waiting for the the phone to ring with Children's Bridge telling us when the next SN list is coming out. I hope you are on there little girl. Dadda and I are waiting for you. I will keep blogging to keep everyone informed.