Welcome to 'Waiting for TJ'

We have a family blog about our two daughters, Jiejieandmeimei.blogspot.com. When we began the paper chase for a young man named Tianjun, we created a new web home for him. Since he will be about 7 years old when he joins our family, and not an infant as Jiejie and Meimei were, we want to give him as much history as we can as a member of our family, starting with our first look at a photo of him.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

A Brother for Jiejie and Meimei

It seems we have been waiting forever for Tianjun, who is living in Guangzhou, China, with a foster family. What do we know about him? He turned 7 recently, he likes to run and jump, likes superheroes and a Chinese cartoon called Xin Yang Yang, and, in answer to a question on the list we sent via the orphanage, he says he's not afraid of anything. (In answer to another question, he has no favorite animal, having never had a pet.)

We are adopting Tianjun, or T.J., through a new program called Hope's Journey for older healthy or special needs kids in China. China's international adoption focus is moving quickly in the direction of special needs only, and we're lucky that this recent addition is allowing us to add a child to our family.

We are waiting for completion of some fixes to our home study before the whole process really gets moving and we can start sending T.J. gifts and books and photos. In the meantime, T.J., this blog's for you.