We looked on the internet for an adoption agency and found CCAI. They only had the CO office in 1999. I called a few people in VA who had used them from their reference list. We met a really nice couple with one daughter from China who had used CCAI and they invited us to their potluck dinner for people who had adopted from China and who were in the process. Scott and I loved seeing all those cuties running around! I was working at the time and it seemed like an eternity until I would be a mother! I was dying to be a stay at home mom! We got the call in August 2000 to inform us about Le Pin! CCAI called me at the bank where I worked and I started crying! That was before all the computerized info so I had to wait for them to mail pictures. What a gorgeous little doll she was and still is! Lindsay was born in Jiangxi Province, PRC. She was almost 1 year old on Gotcha Day Nov. 9, 2000. What a wonderful journey to her. We traveled with quite a few other people. Around 30 in the group from all over the country. What special memories of having Lindsay handed to us. I ran around like a chicken with its head cut off when we got to the room because she started crying and of course I had never made a bottle. By the time our guide helped me with that, she was asleep. She slept all night and then sucked down 2 full bottles the next morning! Lindsay bonded right to us! She smiled and giggled a lot. We were in Love! We came home to the US to California to my friend's house on Thanksgiving Day! We were drunk with jet lag but had a good and very meaningful Thanksgiving. We flew to VA the next day. Boy! It was good to be home!
We knew while we were on the plane to adopt Lindsay that we would adopt again. In March of 2001 I was in the Drs office with Lindsay for a checkup. A pharmaceutical rep came in and saw us. She said that she was about to go and see a picture of her new daughter from Korea at her agency. I asked her when she began her adoption and she said January! I had to hear about that! She told me about her agency and I called them. We had to wait until Lindsay was home for 1 year to begin another adoption. We began our adoption for Eric in November 2001. The paperwork was a breeze! Very different than China. Anyway, I got a call in March to let me know we were matched with a son! Then he was escorted home to us in June! Wow! It only took 8 months! Eric was almost 5 months old when he arrived. What an adorable baby! His escort was from the US and Eric was his 3 baby to escort home. He actually cried when he handed Eric to us. The day before we were literally on the way out the door with diaperbag in hand when our agency called to say bad storms had caused Eric's plane to be diverted to MN. I was upset wondering how Eric was and if this man could take care of him! I spoke to the escort in their hotel room and he assured me that Eric was ok. We had to wait until the next day and that is how Eric's escort had become attatched so quickly. It is amazing just how quickly we can become attatched to a picture so I can understand spending a couple of days with a baby and how you would fall in love. Of course, we were all in Love immediately! Eric was such a good baby! Lindsay immediately tried to mother him and feed him. So cute! We were a family of four but we knew there would be more!
The moment Lindsay was placed in our arms.
Just after Eric arrived at Washington Reagan Int'l Airport.
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