WE ARE HAVING A GIRL - MEET GRACE ANN-XIN FISHER!

Well the big day has come! We have been matched with our precious daughter (2/3/10-my natural father's 62nd birthday!) and after much prayer accepted her on 3/2/10 and today officially were notified that China has approved us to be her parents so we can officially share with all of you! This has been one incredible journey. We will most likely be traveling to get her in June - we can hardly wait! I will try to make this short and sweet though I have so much to say, i know you want details and pictures!

So a little about her...she will be 2 years old in August of this year ...so we should be home to celebrate her 2nd birthday! She was born on August 25, 2008. She entered the orphanage on September 12, 2008. She was abandoned in the inpatient department of the Hospital in Pingdingshan City on on September 3, 2008. On December 1, 2008 she was moved to a foster care facility called "The Angel House" - no surprise there as I have been praying for angels to be sent to watch over her - God is so good!

So a little more personally about her, we are told she is a fairly smart child; her eyes are incredibly bright. She very much likes to make “yi yi ya ya” sounds to talk to you! She really likes to have people hold her. If she is being held, she will smile, but if she is not held, she will cry! She has good spirit! Funny here too....typically children in the orphanages are not held a lot so holding and bonding feels uncomfortable to them when you get get your child and yet so natural to us to bond. Our daughter LOVES to be held!

Our daughter has been diagnosed with bilateral submaxillary lump. She was admitted to the hospital on 9/23/09 and was discharged 11/23/09 - 61 days. During this time she underwent two surgeries. The surgeries went well and she left the hospital after her stitches were removed. Discharge condition was good spirits, stable vitals and healed incision! Doctors in China feel she will not need further surgery and that the cysts that were removed will not reoccur! This is a HUGE PRAISE report!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was a life threatening surgery with many possibilities for complications...we accepted her prior to knowing the results of the surgery because God was clear she was ours and if we wanted our miracle we had to step out in faith. After all Peter did not walk on water until he got out of the boat. One week after we accepted her as our own, we got our update - we got our MIRACLE!

Grace is developing great, she is sitting up and walking and can even climb stairs! She is babbling and can say mama clearly! She is beautiful! She is ours! There is so much more to tell you about how God's hand is on her and our journey over the past month, but I will save that for a later post and let you just sit in this for now.....

And and I know you all want to know about my sister Kelly....yes they were matched t0o....5 days after us, her daughter is from the same orphanage! That is surely God. Do you realize we had to be matched within days of each other and our children had to be from the same orphanage for us to travel together! HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How about giving up some praise here folks! Check out Kelly's blog to see details that she will share about her beautiful baby girl Lily Marie Waite!

I love you all and am so excited this day to share with you and introduce to you our daughter ...Grace Ann-Xin (Heart) Fisher