Our Journey To Nicholas

As you know Frank and I have adopted Audrey and Meili from China. Audrey from Hunan in July 2002 and Meili from Guangxi in June 2004. We began our process to bring Nicholas home in May 2005 after seeing his picture on CCAI's Waiting Child List. CCAI is the agency that has helped us bring home Audrey, Meili and now Nicholas. CCAI is a wonderful agency and they seem like part of our family. Nicholas was on a Waiting Child list because he has had a congenital heart condition, a ventricular septal defect, repaired and his right ear is smaller than his left with a very narrow canal, he cannot hear normally inhis right ear but does hear normally in his left. He was born Jan 2, 2004 and abandoned Jan 25, 2004 in a hospital outpatient waiting room in Beijing. He was cared for at a police station for nearly 2 weeks before they took him to the orphanage in Beijing. The orphanage nannies named him Jian Zhong. He had his VSD (heart condition) repaired in May 2004 and was then placed with a foster family. His foster parents have a teenage daughter and are very fond of Nicholas, Jian to them, and that is all the information we have about them. We hope to meet them in China when we receive Nicholas on Nov. 22, 2005!