We Have A Son!

Hi All,

Well yes it is true we have a beautiful 16 month old son named Hong Jun Peng. His name means Red Truthful Drum beats. I looked that up today. His American name will be Jonathan Junpeng Lotspeich. We are so in love with him already. Today at lunch the kids were not eating their rice because Mom put something "weird" in it. I told the kids, "Did you know that Hong Jun Peng eats rice all of the time?" Joshua thought for a second and then said "Hong Jun Peng, oh yea, that's my brother." Needless to say he is an amazing surprise. Just last Friday we received our dossier back from the Chinese Consulate after being authenticated. On Monday we sent our dossier to Holt, our adoption agency. From there we were expecting the "normal" routine of Holt sending our dossier to China and then receiving a Log In Date from China. From there we would wait what we thought would be a least a few months before receiving a referral of a child.

This is what actually happened.

We sent in our dossier to Holt on Monday. On Tuesday I went to my Concerned Women For America meeting. Near the close of our meeting David called me on my cell. This was unusual because David never calls unless something happened. Now I am thinking, "Brace yourself, one of the kids got hurt." David says, "Are you sitting down? You better sit down for this." He sounded excited so I wasn't too alarmed. Then he said, "I just got off the phone with Beth Smith from Holt and she says that they have a little boy for us." From there the rest of the day was filled with waiting for the email referral and speaking to doctors about his condition. His left foot is a club foot. After MUCH prayer, we decided to proceed with little Hong and see what the LORD does. Well you know the end result and we could not be more joyful.

With all of the additional paperwork that still needs to be done we estimate that we will travel to China around Novemberish maybe a little later or the way things are going, a little sooner. Well thats about it. Please keep us in your prayers. There are still many, many things that need to be done before China.

Jennifer

P.S. The other day I was having a low mommy day. I was losing my patience with the kids and really having a low tollerance day and thought, "Why did God call me to be a mommy to another little one, I have a hard time with my three." At that moment He spoke to my heart and said, "I do not call the equiped, I equip the called." (Your thought for the day)