We’re David and Lois McBeath. We live in Point Pleasant, WV – a small town along the Ohio River on the western side of the state. We have 2 sons. Austin is 15. He’s a sophomore at Pt. Pleasant High School. Darrell is almost 12. He’s in the 6th grade at Roosevelt Elementary.
We actually began our adoption journey more than 10 years ago. I saw an ad in the newspaper about Chinese babies. We called about it, but it just wasn’t even feasible at that time in our life. All these years, it was always there, stuck somewhere in the back of our minds. I don't know why exactly – it just was. The thought never completely went away.
We also talked off and on about having another child. Our house was only 3 bedrooms, and we know the boys could have been in a room together, but we didn't want to do that if we didn't have to. In the spring of 2006, for some reason (I don't recall exactly what) - it came up again. We started thinking and talking - why not? So we started checking into it more. We did a lot of research online. The more we found out, the more we felt a calling, a desire and even a need to do this.
We started the adoption and added onto the house all at the same time. It took about 6 months to get the paperwork together. Then about another month after we sent it to China for them to translate it and 'log us in' (11/6/06). That's when we started to officially wait.
We finally got "THE CALL" on 7/13/08. It was a Sunday afternoon! After 2 ½ years, we are finally going to get our baby!


Leila Ann McBeath, formally known as Shun Xi Yi, was born on Oct 29, 2007. She had a cleft lip and cleft palate. The lip has been repaired, but not the palate. (We'll have to do that when we get her home.) She's in the Children's Welfare Institute of Shunde District of Foshan City, which is located in the Guangdong Province, in the southern part of China.

Shunde, the hometown of flowers, is one of four cities under the jurisdiction of Foshan City. Covering an area of 806 sq meters and with a population of 1.05 million, Shunde City is situated in the middle of the fertile Pearl River Delta, between Guangzhou and Hong Kong. It was set up as a county in the 3rd year (1452 AD) of the Jintai reign of the Ming Dynasy (1368-1644), and conferred with the administrative status of a city in 1992 by the State Council.

Foshan City is also where the actor Bruce Lee was from.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Wild Weekend

Wow, we surely had an exciting weekend.

I haven't been able to post until now though, because my computer crashed (again).
It's a good thing my husband works on a computers for a living, but on the downside - by the time he gets done with work - working on MY computer is the last thing he wants to do.
At this point, I'm partially up and running again.
I have some things back, but not everything.

Austin had a big wrestling tournament on Fri and Sat.
The team took 1st (again), and Austin took 3rd!
However ... in doing so - he got his top front tooth knocked out!
(And oh how 'wonderful', the kid that took out his tooth, also took 1st place in his weight class.)
Austin stopped the match for a minute and gave his tooth to the coach to hold so he could finish.
They put it in milk, and he brought it home that night.
(That's something everyone should know BTW: if you ever get a tooth knocked out, put it in milk. It will keep the nerves alive until you can get to the dentist.)
We went to the dentist first thing Mon morning and thankfully, he was able to reattach it! WOW.

We also had a pretty good snow come thru on Fri night.
We got up Sat morning to about 5 inches.
I asked David to drive me in to the wrestling, because I didn't want to drive in it. (My car's not 4-wheel drive, and I'm a chicken.)

Austin's youth group went black-light bowling on Sun afternoon, and Darrell and I went to a Christmas comedy play.
Daddy stayed home with Leila.

Due to the backroads still having snow and ice on them, school was cancelled on Mon.
We took the opportunity to go Mon afternoon and pick up our new puppy!
Yep, we decided to get him.
Maybe we're just crazy, but David and I are both suckers for dogs.
(And hey, it's cheaper than another kid.)
Meet Zeus:


He's a cute little fuzzball.
He turned 6 weeks old on Tues.
He's relatively small now, but he sure won't be for long.
His daddy's head came up to the hood on the truck.
Sable (the Alaskan Malamute) seems to be tolerating him rather well, but Bailey (the Cocker Spaniel) is not happy about the new addition at all.
He's probably thinking - oh no, not again!
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