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, October 16, 2019

Spring 2019

Big news was that we found out in April that we're getting a NEW BABY!
Austin and Casey are expecting a baby boy in Nov. His name will be Caleb David.



David left his job with AGFA after 16 years to manage the IT Department at PVH.
We hope and pray he made a good choice.

Easter was pretty much normal for us this year.
Sunrise breakfast, church, lunch, nap.
Mandy, Jessica and I went to an adult egg hunt this year.
That was new.
We didn't win much, but we enjoyed it. More spending time together than anything.





I finally got to use my Christmas present from Austin and Casey.
They got me a gift certificate for an Escape Room.
(It took awhile to coordinate everyone's schedules to go.)
We did 'escape'! I think everyone enjoyed it enough to go again sometime.


May was crazy busy.
We traveled to TN for Leila's final cheer competition of the season.
They did a great job, AND we got to spend time with Darres and Juanita.
Austin also performed on the adult team, and he did super as well.


Volleyball and school both finished up in May too.


Our 'big' thing for May was Darrell's graduation from Marshall.
He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Business Management with minors in Entrepreneurship and Marketing.
He also worked full-time the entire time he was in school.
We're so very proud.

He's currently working at Toyota with Austin.
Having them able to ride together on the way home in the mornings after working midnights - helps ease my mind.

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