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.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Happy Easter

We went to the egg hunt at church Fri evening.
Leila didn't do quite as well finding the eggs at this one, as she did the one at school.
Maybe because all along, she thought she was just finding eggs for 'fun'.
After the last egg hunt though, she discovered that there was CANDY inside the eggs.
She just couldn't seem to stay with the task of 'finding more eggs', because she wanted to open each one as she found it, to see (and eat) what was inside.


Sunday was a fantastic day.
We didn't make it to sunrise service because it's hard enough on Leila to get up in time for church - much less any earlier. (She doesn't normally get up until 9:00-10:00)
We did get up a little earlier than normal though, to see what the Easter Bunny had brought.


After church we had 15 people here for Easter diner.
The weather was beautiful, the company was great, and the food was delicious.





The boys are on a much shortened spring break right now.
It was originally supposed to be 3 days longer than it is now, but it was cut short due to snow days.
Those were fun (and worth it) at the time, but not so much now.
I spent today putting away Easter things, and the boys spent it mowing the lawn.
Yep, it's that time of year again - already.

1 comment:

Nicole said...

Happy Easter!
I love the picture of Leila with her arms crossed, too cute !

April 5, 2010 at 8:33 PM

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