Introducing our daughter......

Name: Sun Huai Ping (孙怀平), now Anna M. D.
Birthday: 02/01/2006 (2006年2月1日)
Located: Hangzhou Children's Welfare Institute (浙江省杭州儿童福利院)
http://journeytomyanna.blogspot.com/2008/09/we-got-daughter_5054.html

Timeline
05/05/2008: Applied with Adoption Agency #1
08/25/2008: Switched to Adoption Agency #2
09/17/2008: Referral! - Connected with little Anna
09/18/2008: LOI; 09/23/2008: PA; 10/23/2008: I-800A approved;
10/31/2008: DTC; 11/07/2008: LID!!!
02/09/2009: LOA!!!!!; 03/16/2009: TA ;
03/23/2009: Gotcha Day; 04/01/2009: CA; 04/03/2009: Home

China Adoption Acronyms:
LID - Log in Date; DTC - Dossier to China
SN - special needs; NSN - non special needs
LOI - Letter of Intent (used in the SN process)
LOA - Letter of Acceptance, the document that allows you to officially accept a referral;
TA - Travel Approval; CA -Consulate Appointment

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Day 4 - Visiting the Orphanage



今天上午我们去公证处领取了小安娜的公证材料, 然后去福利院参观。 杭州儿童福利院去年刚刚搬迁到新址, 很大很漂亮, 到处都非常干净整洁。我们都得穿上鞋套才能进入他们的卧室。我们参观了大厅,会议室,游乐场,还有她的起居室。安娜的班上有12个孩子, 男孩女孩大概各半, 都是两三岁的。 教室里有三个阿姨。安娜见到她的小朋友和阿姨特别高兴,马上跟他们抱在一起玩了起来。其中一个大眼睛阿姨特别喜欢安娜,抱着她问这问那,安娜跟她也特别亲。这个景象真令人感动。孩子们看起来都很高兴, 很健康,大部分都胖胖的。我们在她的教室里呆了大约20分钟,离开时,安娜挺痛快的就跟我们走了。走到外面,她嘴里念叨着阿姨,手指着要回去。我哄哄她就好了。福利院的负责人及所有工作人员都很亲切,路上见到不同的人,都认识安娜。福利院给了我们一个册子,里面记录了安娜的成长过程, 有她从小到现在的照片,真是太宝贵了。通过这次参观,我们得到了很多珍贵的信息. 看到女儿成长过的地方,我真是百感交激。这里毕竟培育了我们的女儿,和我们有着不解之缘。Today we first went to the public notary to pick up Anna's adoption materials and then visited Anna's orphanage. The Hangzhou Children's Welfare Institute was relocated to this new facility just last year. It is very big, modern and clean. We had to wear shoe covers to enter their nursery. We visited the hall, the conference room, the playground, and her classroom and nursery. There are 12 children in Anna's class. Half are boys and half are girls, and they are all around 2-3 years old. There were three nannies in the classroom and one of them was very excited seeing Anna. One hugged Anna and put Anna on her lap and started checking her and talking to her. I could feel that she truly loved Anna. For Anna, it was like being back home; she was running around and playing with her friends. It was very touching to see the people who took care of her and to see how comfortable she was. All the kids looked very happy and well cared for. Most of them are pretty chubby. We stayed for about 20 minutes in her classroom. When we left, Anna didn't seem to resist, but after we were outside, she started pointing to her classroom and called for her Ayi (nanny) and wanted to go back. I distracted her with a candy. The orphanage director and all the staff members were very kind and they all called her name when we passed by them. Before we left, the orphanage gave us a booklet which recorded Anna's growth information with a lot of pictures from the past two years since she entered the orphanage. This is very precious to us and we are very grateful to what they have done for the children. We have gained a lot of priceless information from the visit. This place is where our daughter was raised and we have a special connection to it.

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