Congratulations everyone for an awesome fundraising effort! CCAI informed me that we raised $1,280.00 for Xinyi SWI!!!!! The next step is that CCAI will...
Hi All, I am Lauren Camardo, DH Robert, DD Sophie (8-bio) I have just joined the group, as our referral finally arrived yesterday!@!!!!! Our daughter has been...
I'm always happy to learn of new Xinyi referrals! Your daughter is precious. My Julia (now 5 yrs) is a very thoughtful child. She occasionally asks, "Will...
Congrats Lauren and family, Your sweetie is gorgeous!!! We have had our daughter Allison for just over a year now. She was very well loved and taken care of,...
Thanks Cindy!! Allie is soooo cute and looks so happy! All the babies I have seen coming out of Xinyi look very healthy and well cared for, which is amazing!...
Hi, My name is Julie Gusman and I also just got my referral for my beautiful daughter who is the Xinyi SWI. Her name is Claire Hongwang Gusman and she looks...
Hi Lauren, Robert and Sophie and congratulation to your daughter. When I saw the pictures I had to smile. The red dress your daughter wears on the pictures, we...
Hi Maritha, Wow!!! The legend of the "red thread" is soooo true!! In a strange way it even connects you and I!! Well, it is a beautiful dress and they are...
Hi Maritha, When we received updated pictures of our daughters (over a year ago), about half (out of 9) were wearing the red dress, and we jokingly called our...
Maritha, That is so funny, our group got our referrals on Jan 5, 05 and the babies in Feb 06 and most of them had pics taken in that red dress for referral...
Lauren, It would still be good to send a care package, cause of course you send gifts to the nannies and I really believe that the photo album we sent of our...
Actually Cindy, that is exactly what I decided to do. In fact, Sophie and I were going to go shopping at Target after school today but she is not feeling...
I know Ryleigh wasn't shown her photo album because we had stuck a little piece of paper in there (like a bookmark) and it was in the exact same spot. ... ...
Hi Lauren, Stacey and Cindy It warms my heart to read your storys about the red dress. We actually bought four of them, and kept one for our daughter. Now it...
Hi Julie - Congratulations on your referral. It's an exciting time. Our daughter Lucie came home from XinYi in Dec 1999 at 21 months. We got to talk briefly...
Hi Laurie~ It sounds like our daughter was probably with your daughter in Xinyi. Emmie was born in 05/98. We didn't adopt her until 2003, though. We also...
It seems like a life time ago that we were heading to China to get Samantha. We traveled in February of 2000. I had sent a disposable camera ahead of time...
Looks like since 2000, all the kids have the same surname and first name. I know Xin is for the SWI, is Hong the name of the Director that took over in 2000? ...
Congrats to all the new Xinyi families! We've been home 3 months with our Lilly and she is doing GREAT. She's healthy, bright and beautiful like all the Xinyi...
Hello all, If you're traveling soon to adopt a child from Xinyi, and you'd be willing to take a letter with some pictures to give to the orphanage staff, would...
Hong means red in Mandarin and red is a lucky colour. A friend who has written a very big book on Chinese (i.e Mandarin) says that Hong is a very good name. ...
I had to dig through the archives, but I think I found what I was looking for. If I am reading this wrong please tell me. Hong is apparently not for the...
... Jack, that's been my understanding. We, too, adopted a Xin Hong (Lu, in our case) from Xinyi in 2003. There were thirteen girls in that group....all Xin...
... According to their website (http://www.halfthesky.org/work/wherewework.php) they do not have a project anywhere in the vicinity of Xinyi, which is in the...
No, my dad has done several trips with HTS and at that time they were not allowed in Guangdong at all. That has since changed but they have not worked in...
How Interestng. Our daughter was adopted late February 25 2000 her name is Gou Yxin. I wonder if there are other Gou Yuxins? roza Mom to Celeste (Guangdong)...
Our daughter born in 1998 was name Guo Yu Qing. Similar.. _____ From: Xinyi@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Xinyi@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of yuxinus Sent: Friday,...
Happy Friday everyone!!!! I just received the below e-mail from CCAI regarding our Xinyi Yahoo Group, Fundraising Project. Xinyi SWI has requested several...
