Happy Spring!

Just wanted to wish a Happy Spring to everyone from the Jones family! We just enoyed a wonderful vacation in Florida with my side of the family , so Libby was kept entertained by her nine cousins. It was so much fun to have everyone together! Todd and I have been busy with work and Libby has been with preschool. We only have about a month left of preschool but Libby is already anxious about next year's preschool. I am definately ready for summer vacation even though we still have a few more weeks left.

On the Ella Paige front, still not much to report. The wait is just killing us. We have been logged into the CCAA for almost 16 months now and the end is not even in site. CCAA just finished matching up to 1/9/06 LID and we are a 12/30/06. So we are almost a year behind where they are right now. We keep waiting for a speed up but not sure if we'll get one or not. Todd and I still feel as though Ella is through the regular China program although we are starting to pray about looking for a waiting child. We'll see what happens though. Please keep us in you prayers that if Ella is on a waiting child's list that we will know which one is her.

On the exciting front, our dear friend, Kathy D'Angelo, just got her referral for an adorable 6 month old baby girl waiting in Jiangxi province in China! Kathy is a single mom and has waited 27 months for her referral! Ellie Joy LuMing is a cutie and we can't wait to meet her and have her join the Savannah China aodption community.

Here are a few pictures of Libby I've been meaning to post. Enjoy!


~Todd, Kellie & Libby

Our princess

Libby not feeling so well and hanging out with Mom

Chatting to Aunt Kathy on the phone about her referral!!!

Somebody play with me!!!

I love riding turtles!!!

"Look Mommy, I'm a fish!!!"

Happy 3rd Birthday Libby Sofia LiHua!!!!!!!!!

We celebrated Libby Sofia LiHua's 3rd Birthday on February 1st!!!! It's SO hard to believe that she is 3 years old already! She is the light and joy of our lives and we can't imagine life without our little one. Libby was born on February 1, 2005, in the city of Guiping in the province of Guangxi in the People's Republic of China. She was matched with our family on October 4, 2005, and we met her on Sunday, December 11, 2005. Our lives have never been the same.

Now over 2 years later, we are eagerly anticipating the arrival of Libby's "mei mei", Ella Paige. Unfortinately the wait in China has dramatically increased since our LID of December 30, 2006. We have been logged in for over 13 months but unforinately we have at least another year of waiting before we see Ella's picture. The only positive is that we will most likely bring Libby along to meet her "mei mei" since she will be old enough by then!

Happy 3rd Bithday Libby!!!! Momm and Daddy love you VERY much!!!!!!!!!!!