Pea Ridge couple receives a special gift this season
Gifts of Christmas can often be generic and oubliables, but the gift of a pair of Pea Ridge won this year is permanent and valuable.Terry-free television and returned by a whirl wind trip to China Wednesday evening with a new baby daughter. The couple took 14 months Odessa Li Mei, after being abandoned by his parents in an orphanage.
After years of failed fertility treatments, which removes the international adoption process began in January. The couple’s adoption Dillon International, an agency of the adoption of Tulsa, Okla. that the adoption has opted for several families in the north-west of Arkansas. “We are delighted,” said a distance. “We hope that the baby for some time, and it is without doubt our own.”
The Remove spent two weeks in China, focusing on tourist attractions and meetings with his new daughter. They saw the Great Wall of China, the Summer Palace, Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, the study on Chinese culture, is now a part of their family.
Odessa Mei Li was not the girl of Chinese origin name but the name given by Terry and his remote control. “Odessa” comes from the word “Odyssey”, which means journey. “Mei Li” means, beauty and strength. Hence, the significance of his full name is “May your life is a journey of beauty and strength.”
The couple, together with five other Chinese families to adopt children, arrived in Guiyang, China, two weeks ago. It requires that it be completed paperwork Odessa and met for the first time. Given that the group led to the hotel to bring their children, they hope, the process is not last too long. The wish was granted, if they were received on officials and adoption of Odessa, without fanfare. “She said” Here, “Terry said.” It was a long night. She was not happy. “We were so excited, but this is only my heart broken, distance added. “He pulled everything she knew, and it was only a passer.”
Remote said that - after two long days - Odessa began to calm down. The three have stuck.
When they grow up, planning to remove, Odessa’s Chinese traditional heritage of American education. “She is American, and grow, USA,” Terry said. “But we do not want us to forget that the Chinese. As she is older, we, so they can tell the story.
“Sooner or later they want to maybe even go to his Chinese name, which is ordered with us.”
Terry said he and distance Odessa want to allow to tell their story of acceptance, if it is ready, and how she chooses.
Terry said she hopes some travel to China, as Odessa develops.
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