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 Here's a little boy who just one week ago was considered an orphan...but today he is a son, part of a family. Loved to no end and boy does he feel it.  He has grasped onto everyone of us as his family members.  He shares, loves, kisses and hugs.  He receives our love in return.  When a Chinese woman inquisitively asked how it was possible for me to be his mother, I could tell be the inflection in voice he meant what he said "These two people are my Mama and Baba!"  So thankful for his willing heart to accept us in our brokeness to be his parents.  We adopt in faith and God does the rest.  Adoption is not just all joy and smiles.  Every child grieves and hurts as they leave one life behind and enter the next with their new family.  We know he loves us, but he still is sad and grieves for what he is losing-friends, nannies, his country, his language--everything he knows.  In a sense this is what God is asking us to do when we truly want to follow him.  Give up all the comf

 We are some what of a tourist attraction to the locals here so we have learned to just go with it and call it our celebrity status.  I don't think it's our good looks-but purely the combination of children, hair and eye colors that have people really confused and guessing!  If we stay in one place for too long we have a a group of people surrounding us and taking pictures, so we have taken to taking pictures of them now too!  It gets most people smiling and everyone having a good time.  On a serious note- it's sad that people can not even imagine how our family could all possibly go together. We feel as natural as ever- God given and created with love.  Today when we left the orphanage and the nannies told our guide our family has so much love within it, and yes we do.  Only because we live for a God that loves us so much that we can live our lives serving him in obedience.  That's why we feel so loved! Today we went to the center of Chongqing.  This is kind of like th