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.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Pretty Dog

I sort of think we have too many dogs (3) some times.
I get very, very aggravated with the two bigger ones especially.
I get tired of giving Sable a bath every week.
I get tired of brushing off bags of hair and vacuuming and STILL having hair in the house and on the floor.
And yet - I still have to admit - they're pretty good with Leila and all she puts them thru at times.
Note the hair thing on Sable's head and the ponytail holder on her ear (and two others had already fallen off before I could get the camera).


Father's Day was pretty relaxing here.
We had gone to Charleston on Fri and spent the evening running around and went out to eat then.
The guys all went on a four-wheeler ride on Sat in Ritchie Co.
So Sun was spent pretty much as a normal day.
I thought I'd put a picture that has all my favorite guys though.


Sun night we took Austin to catch the bus to go to Kansas City.
So far, it sounds like he's having a really good time.
He'll be home sometime this weekend.
His teacher sent me a picture today that she must have taken during one of his competitions.


Darrell's been just a little bit lonely since Austin's been gone.
Not as much as he anticipated though.
He had a friend come to swim on Mon and Tues.
And he's been sick with a really bad ear infection since. Hard to miss someone when you feel bad.

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