30 Nov

The Call: it’s a girl!

Jiangxi
12 pm: The Call! Our daughter, Cen Li Ning, was born 2/10/06 and is at Jiangxi Heng Feng Social Welfare Institute! We expect to travel end of January, early February. I won’t get more info or photos until Wednesday when our agency director returns from traveling and translates the info, so that bit of info will have to us through a wonderful weekend!
Her family name, Cen, is a well-known mountain in this remote area of Jiangxi, four hours from Nanchang and all children from this institution are given this name. Her given name, Li Ning, may mean powerful/beautiful tranquility/peace, but we’ll know more once we see the Kanji characters!

5 Comments

  1. 1 November 30, 2006 at 1:50 pm
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    Congratulations! A daughter! We hope you get to travel soon so you can bring your little girl home!
    Greetings,
    Mischa and Chantalle
    Heiloo, the Netherlands
    LID 10-24-05

  2. 2 December 1, 2006 at 7:04 am
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    Congrats on the referral of your baby girl, it is always such great news to hear the stork has delivered another baby to their forever family. We look forward to following along on your journey to China to bring her home.

    -Dannye (& DH Ray)
    Awaiting Chynna (LID 7/14/06 thru GWCA)

  3. 3 December 1, 2006 at 9:54 am
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    Congratulations on your referral. If you are interested in getting your child’s finding ad (which has a photo of her usually earlier than the referral photo), please let us know. We sometimes have actual copies of the newspaper with the ad in it also!

    Good luck, and safe travels!

    Brian Stuy
    http://www.research-china.org

  4. 4 December 2, 2006 at 9:39 am
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    Thank you all so much!

  5. 5
    Loraine
    December 3, 2006 at 4:01 am
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    Congratulations on your daughter.
    Our second daughter from China is also from Heng Feng.
    Have you considered joining the Hengfeng families group at hengfengfamilies-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

    We were able to go to HengFeng it is possible.

    Also when you get your daughter back it is advisable with children from Hengfeng to get their lead levels checked they have been high in the past but I think the problem has been fixed.