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.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Riding Rides

We took Leila to our county fair.
(The boys went almost every night, but we only went a couple.)
She LOVED it!
She loved everything about it - the animals, the music, the people, the rides...
She liked the rides enough to ride by herself - and if you know Leila, that's saying something.


Then boys and I went to Kings Island with the church this past week.
We like going this time of year because most OH schools have already gone back, which means it's not crowded.
Although the weather is still hot, we got lucky and had a good day - not too hot, not too muggy.

I learned a few things that day:
I'm getting too old for some of the rides.
I take longer and longer to recover from each one every year.
It is possible to drag bottom on the log ride.
Some people REALLY do NOT like heights (Drop Zone).

Lots of fun - Lots of good memories though.


On another note, I would like to catch a break.
In fact - winning the lottery would be nice.
(Yes, I do realize that having a ticket would greatly increase my odds - but still ... )

We've had David's truck in the shop - not once, but twice in the past month.
Now, Austin's truck in there. And I'm scared to death to get a verdict on the repairs this time.
We have another water leak. (At least this one's small and not doing much damage though.)
And someone got David's debit card info!
I was checking the bank balance one morning last week, and found several hundred $'s had been charged to a French airline.
I blocked the card immediately, and we've filed to get our money back.
The bank assured us that we won't actually lose our money.
BUT in the meantime - someone (other than us) still has it, and is going somewhere that I might really want to go.

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