Category Archives: Ella Grace Pass
Adoption Timeline
June 14, 2004-received packet from AWAA and decided to adopt a baby girl from China August 9, 2004-made contact with Lifeline Children’s Services out of Birmingham to conduct our Home Study August 25, 2004-fingerprinted for DHR, Alabama! September 1, 2004-sent first application to AWAA September 1, 2004-applied for certified copies of birth and marriages certificates …
What China says about her…
Fu Zhi Yuan’s Growth Report Fu Zhi Yuan, female, was born on December 13, 2002. Her birth parents abandoned her when she was about two months old. On February 12, 2003 she was brought into our orphanage until now. At the initial physical exam, her height was 52cm, weight was 3.1kg, head measurement was 37cm …
E-mail to Special Needs Coordinator 3/30/05
We were patiently waiting for a regular referral from China, when we felt lead to place our family on the “waiting child list” in case our little girl had some sort of special need-we didn’t want to miss THE ONE. This is the e-mail I wrote to the Special Needs Coordinator at our agency specifying …
Why Ella Grace?
Ella is from my great-grandmother’s name Isabella and Grace is when you get something you don’t deserve…and we feel like we are.