Introducing The 4th Chinese Clover

Introducing: Pan, Jun Jie (Handsome Hero)
DOB: 7/10/06
Orphanage: Kunming, Yunnan
To be known as: Brogan David Junjie

We have been very blessed with our other three lucky Chinese Clovers that we decided that we would take a leap of faith and bring one more clover home!

A few weeks ago I was perusing the Children's House International (CHI) list when I happened upon a little face that I could not believe was still waiting for a family. Richard and I had spoken about one day bringing a brother home for Pierce and in my mind I was drawn to Kunming, Yunnan where Pierce is from and was hoping for a similar SN. Here was a boy that was 18mths younger than Pierce, born with a urogenital deformity like Pierce and was also from Kunming, Yunnan. He had been on their list about 45 days and nobody had shown any serious interest in him until we came along. Although the medical information is at best sketchy, with what we had we checked with our local pedi-urologist and felt comfortable that we would be able to provide what he needed. We have requested some additional testing from China and are hopeful that they will provide at least some of the results so we can more accurately determine a treatment plan but China has become much more difficult these days to get information from and Kunming as we know from experience has not been giving updates on SN children.

The photos are from when be was about 4-5mths old and he is now 9 mths old. Based on how long the paperchase took last time and China's turn around of processing the paperwork our best guess is that we will travel by the end of the year. This is a new agency for us and we looking forward to working with their very compassionate waiting child staff. We turned in our Letter of Intent (LOI) last week but it has not left for China yet. It will hopefully go out to China this week and then we wait on Prior Approval (PA).

Heavy into the paperchase its just never seems to get easier even the 4th time! We have completed half of the homestudy process, criminal background checks, employment letters, adoption petition, and financial statement. We are waiting on a NY birth cert, and our marriage cert before sending them through the certifiaction/autentication process. We have filed for the I600A (before the prices go up) but they won't act on it until we submit a homestudy which won't be probably until May sometime.

In the meantime we plug along with the paperwork with the goal of getting the Dossier to China in June.

Stay tuned!

Holly