On Christmas, we finally named our sweet baby in China! Her name is Vivienne Shan Yu. I fell in love with this name a while back. We went back and forth about whether or not to keep her Chinese middle name. In the end, we decided that it will be nice for her to have the name she was called for most of her first year of life. It will also be a piece of where she is from.
Our Article 5 was delivered to the Chinese Consulate in Guangzhou this Thursday! It will be issued and sent to the CCAA on February 10th, after Chinese New Year. We will be officially waiting for Travel Approval as of the 10th!!! That usually takes an average of two weeks to get TA. We hope to travel in late March, but that's still anyone's guess! We ordered her finding ad and got this sweet picture of her from when she was only four days old. We got the actual newspaper that she was in sent to us as well. We found out that she was left in a flower bed at a tea factory. You see, in China, sadly, mothers do not have the freedoms that women in America have. If they cannot afford to pay a fee keep their second child, they are often abandoned. In some provinces, they are easing up on this rule. They also need to have a boy to support them when they are elderly. At the same time, it is against the law to bring your child you cannot keep to an orphanage. That is why the mother has no choice but to abandon the baby. It is a brave choice. She chose life for Vivienne. I cannot imagine how hard that must have been for her.
This ad was posted in the newspaper and it is a picture of her when she was only four days old on the day she was found. It is so nice to have, because it might be the only baby picture we get of her. And she has hair!!! We can't wait to meet her!
