Introducing Luolin Elisabeth Webster (Long Luo Lin)

In early December we received a note from our agency asking if we would be interested in a little girl who is a "Waiting Child". This meant that she was a special needs child and would we consider adopting her. After taking one look at her picture, we said yes. The fun had just begun! Now there was frantic paper filing and more waiting. On Christmas Eve we got our preliminary adoption OK from the Chinese and on January 2, 2009 we got the official word that Luo was going to be joining our family!

We don't know too much about her, only what the orphanage in Shenzhen sent us.

She "was sent to the orphanage upon approval of the local civil affairs bureau on June 29, 2006. According to her development, the medical staff estimated that the girl was born in June 25, 2006. She was then named Long Luolin."

" She gets up at 6:00, takes a nap at 12:30, and goes to bed at 21:00." She has four meals per day and is regular on the potty. "The staple food is rice for three times ... crawls ... walks holding onto handrails ... bangs two blocks together... knows red color ... timid .. active ... fond of playing with toys ... talkative ... fairly extroverted, obstinate sometimes, impatient sometimes ... favorite toy: doll ..."

Since she is almost three, we decided to keep and combine her given first and middle names, Luolin, and add Elisabeth as her middle name.

We are all very excited to meet this little person and have her join our family! We shall see if she really lives up to what they say about her ...