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.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Bible School & 4th of July

We had a busy, busy week last week.

Bible school was Sun thru Thur.

Leila liked Bible school. There were 8-9 kids in her class.
Although I didn't actually sign up to help (I figured I'd never be able to get away from Leila long enough to do anything) - me and another guy ended up in charge of her class anyway.
Darrell helped out with crafts.
Austin helped out in different areas. He was supposed to be the photographer, but Darrell and I both took pictures too. He actually ended up doing whatever they needed - pictures, games, etc.





And then David's brothers came to visit for the weekend. One came from MD, and one came from GA.
David's mother completely enjoyed having all 3 of her boys together for the 1st time in a long time.
My brother also came from TN.
The kids went wakeboarding and tubing in the afternoon.
Even Leila went tubing this time.
I had 18 people here for a cookout on Sat evening.
Then we all went to the regatta and to the fireworks.
You would think that with getting home around 11:30 after such a full day, everyone would have been beat. Yeah, but not too tired to go for a midnight swim.




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