Its' official -- we're now a family of four!!!! Chris, Debbie, Asia and Emily Bowden.
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Welcome to our family and friends near and far! This is the place to find out what's happening with us as we journey through life, travel to China to bring daughter #1 home, life beyond China and bring daughter #2 home. We hope you enjoy our blog site and visit here often. Sorry, our online photo albums are temporarily unavailable... You can comment at the end of each blog entry and/or sign our Guest Book -- we'd love to hear from you! Thanks for stopping by....
an ancient Chinese belief
An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break.
Debbie and Chris
Smile! - December 27, 2004
Year of the Snake (1965)
Chinese zodiac sign for both of us
Weather at home
Weather in Nanning, province of Guangxi (closest I could get to city of Guiping)
Weather in Beijing
Sorry, online albums temporarily unavailable
Map of China
Our little Asia is in the province of Guangxi
Emily's Adoption Timeline
- Jan , 2010 - submitted adoption application
Links to websites for:
Links to YouTube videos:
- Daughters of China (music video of April Pandas Then and Now by Tim Chauvin)
- When Love Takes You In (music video by Steven Curtis Chapman)
- My Name is Life - about Korean adoption but beautiful words about all adoptions
- China families meeting their children (added to YouTube on Feb 13/07)
- Chinese acrobats in Beijing (Dec 2005)
- Chinese children perform acrobatics (5 to 12 yr olds)
- CCTV 2007 Chinese New Year - Umbrella Dance
- CCTV 2007 Chinese New Year - Acrobatics
- CCTV 2007 Spring Festival Gala - Chinese children
- CCAA Guidelines for Adopting as of May 1, 2007 (2006)
Asia's Adoption Timeline
- June 7/07 - fly home
- June 1 - fly back to Beijing
- May 29/07 - Adoption/Forever Family Day
- May 28/07 - Gotcha Day (for Asia and us) in Nanning, Guangxi
- May 24/07 - fly to Beijing, China
- April 27/07 - CCAA issues our Notice of Coming to China for Adoption
- April 25/07 - our Province issues our Letter of No Objection
- April 18/07 - we signed the Child Proposal Acceptance form that gets sent back to the CCAA
- April 13/07 - doctor looked over medical information - all looks good!
- April 12/07 - we got The Call and our Referral info - Happy Dance Day!!
- April 11/07 - our referral arrived (Victoria); it's out for translation (Ottawa) - no info yet
- April 9/07 - CCAA update - referrals to Oct 26/05!!!!!
- March 7/07 - CCAA update - referrals to Oct 24/05
- Feb 1/07 - CCAA update - referrals to Oct 13/05
- Jan 3/07 - CCAA update - referrals to Sept 27/05
- Nov 30/06 - CCAA update - referrals to Sept 8/05
- Aug 28/06 - home study update done
- June 22/06 - CCAA update - dossiers reviewed to Oct 31/05
- Oct 25/05 - LID (Log In Date)
- Sept 26/05 - DTC (Dossier to China)
- Aug 15/05 - home study signed off
- July 25/05 - last home study visit
- June 28/05 - first home study visit
- June 8/05 - submit adoption application to our adoption agency
- Apr 9/05 - adoption info open house in Nanaimo put on by our adoption agency
Blog Archive
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September
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- hello from Beijing!
- Emily - a girl on the move - Sept 20, 2011
- Emily - Sept 20, 2011
- Sept 20, 2011
- Sept 20, 2011
- Sept 20, 2011
- Sept 20, 2011
- Sept 20, 2011
- Asia and Emily - Sept 20, 2011
- Forever Family Day - Sept 20, 2011
- Forever Family Day paperwork - Sept 20, 2011
- Forever Family Day paperwork - Sept 20, 2011
- Forever Family Day - Sept 20, 2011
- Asia photo - Sept 20, 2011
- Forever Family Day - Sept 20, 2011
- Asia photo - Sept 19, 2011
- Emily photo - Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- Emily photo - Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- Emily and Asia - Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- Emily photos - Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- Mommy's Gotcha Emily - Sept 19, 2011
- Emily photos - Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- More Emily photos - Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- Daddy with his two girls - Sept 19, 2011
- We Gotcha Emily!! - Sept 19, 2011
- a peek at Emily - Sept 19, 2011
- Gotcha Moment soon! - Sept 19, 2011
- start of Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- start of Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- start of Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- start of Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- start of Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- the start of Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- the start of Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- the start of Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- the start of Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- the start of Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- the start of Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- the start of Gotcha Day - Sept 19, 2011
- late dinner in Nanjing - Sept 18, 2011
- Emily's papercut
- Little Miss Word Search - Sept 18, 2011
- high in the sky - Sept 18, 2011
- travel from Xian to Nanjing - Sept 18, 2011
- Xian city wall - Sept 17, 2011
- Xian city wall - Sept 17, 2011
- Bell Tower
- Drum Tower
- at the Muslim market area
- at the Muslim market area - Sept 17, 2011
- at the Muslim market area
- Muslim market area
- Asia - Sept 16, 2011
- Small Goose Pagoda - Sept 17, 2011
- Park at Xian Museum
- Small Goose Pagoda - Sept 17, 2011
- Small Goose Pagoda - Sept 17, 2011
- Big Goose Pagoda - Sept 17, 2011
- Big Goose Pagoda - Sept 17, 2011
- Big Goose Pagoda - Sept 17, 2011
- Big Goose Pagoda - Sept 17, 2011
- Local living in Xian - Sept 17, 2011
- Local living in Xian - Sept 17, 2011
- Banbo museum - Sept 16, 2011
- The Bowden family warriors - Sept 16, 2011
- Terracotta warriors - Sept 16, 2011
- Terracotta warriors - Sept 16, 2011
- Terracotta Warriors - Sept 16, 2011
- Terracotta Warriors - Sept 16, 2011
- Terracotta Warriors - Sept 16, 2011
- Squat toilet - Sept 16, 2011
- To the warriors! - Sept 16, 2011
- Debbie's Terracotta Warrior - Sept 16, 2011
- Asia and Mommy - Sept 16, 2011
- Little Miss Shutterbug - Sept 16, 2011
- For sale - Sept 16, 2011
- Inlay work - Sept 16, 2011
- Minus the head - Sept 16, 2011
- Adding detail - Sept 16, 2011
- Making Terra-Cotta Warriors - Sept 16, 2011
- Shopping for toothpaste - Sept 15, 2011
- Shower cap girl - Sept 16, 2011
- Asia's bed - Sept 15, 2011
- Our hotel room in Xian - Sept 15, 2011
- Asia and Mommy - Sept 15, 2011
- Iris Western Restaurant - Sept 15, 2011
- Grand Soluxe International Hotel Xi'An - Sept 15, ...
- Traffic in Xian - Sept 15, 2011
- Xian city wall - Sept 15, 2011
- Beijing traffic - Sept 14th
- Sleeping beauty - Sept 13th
- Lunch on the airplane
- Welcome to China!!
- BIG NEWS!!
- Sept 9, 2011 - Sunflowers!
- May 16, 2011
- June 2011 - Asia
- May 14, 2011 - my fisher guy
- May 14, 2011 - Asia and Charlie
- May 10, 2011 - A Fancy Nancy party
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Year of the Dog (2006)
Chinese zodiac sign for Asia
A referral photo of Asia
There's our beautiful girl!
Emily Lv Xin Ting
what we know.
A message to our daughters...
We didn't give you the gift of life but in our hearts we know...the love we feel is deep and real, as if it had been so...for us to have each other, is like a dream come true!...no, we didn't give you the gift of life -- life gave us the gift of you. -- author unknown.
Asia Jin Yu Fei ...
Asia was born on August 11, 2006. She is living at the Guiping Social Welfare Institute, Guiping city, Guangxi province, China.
At Jan 24, 2007, she was 61 cm in height (24 inches) and 6.7 kg in weight (14.74 lbs).
The meaning of her name: "Jin" is her last name. It comes from the first character of "Jin Tian Zhen" (Jintian town). Jintian is located in Guiping. All children at that SWI use "Jin" as their last names in memory of this town -- J intian, Guiping where the earthshaking event "Tai Ping Tian Guo" rebellion happened. "Yufei" means immaculacy.
What the proposal documents say about Asia: her reactions are quick; she is an active, lovable, bright and restless baby. Her eyes are bright. She likes toys with sound. She adapts easily to a new environment and does not like being alone. She is an extrovert and always has a ready smile.
At Jan 24, 2007, she was 61 cm in height (24 inches) and 6.7 kg in weight (14.74 lbs).
The meaning of her name: "Jin" is her last name. It comes from the first character of "Jin Tian Zhen" (Jintian town). Jintian is located in Guiping. All children at that SWI use "Jin" as their last names in memory of this town -- J intian, Guiping where the earthshaking event "Tai Ping Tian Guo" rebellion happened. "Yufei" means immaculacy.
What the proposal documents say about Asia: her reactions are quick; she is an active, lovable, bright and restless baby. Her eyes are bright. She likes toys with sound. She adapts easily to a new environment and does not like being alone. She is an extrovert and always has a ready smile.
3 comments:
I've been waiting and waiting for these photos! What a little doll Emily is. I cried this morning, so tears were shed :) Lili and Fei were hooting and hollering this morning and even Jia got in the action demanding to see the baby. We're so thrilled for you guys. She looks strong and healthy. Soooo nice to see her playing with Asia already! Congratulations family of four.
Great looking family!
Congratulations!!!
xoxo
This one is fantastic!!!!
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