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We are Jolie and Scott, and we are preparing to go to China to get our son. He is 22 months old and in Dianjiang Social Welfare Institute. Actually, he is in foster care associated with Dianjiang SWI.

One year ago, we weren't even considering another child. We have 2 biological daughters, ages 14 and 10, and one daughter from China, age 4.5. And yet, here we go!!!

Last November, we started talking about adding another child to our family, a boy. We felt drawn to China, as our 3rd daughter, Devyn is from China. Also, when we were there in 2005, I knew I wanted to come back for another child. It only took 3 years for me to convince Scott! We decided to apply to the Waiting Child program with the same agency we used in 2005. There are many boys in the Waiting Child program, and they do not have the chance at adoption that the girls do. For whatever reason, most American and European parents adopting from China want only girls.

On December 4, 2008, I sent an email to our adoption agency asking for the password to the Waiting Children list, and telling them we were interested in adopting a boy. The next day an agency representative called me at home; I was only home because I happened to have no cases that day. She said that she had the file of a 14 month old boy whom she had been trying to place for 2 months, and would we be interested in looking at his file? I don't think I've ever been so stunned in my life. I tried to write down his province, SWI, and birthday. I only got the birthday correct. I called Scott in from his studio and told him, which elicited maniacal laughter from him. We slept on it, and requested his file the next morning. Once we saw that picture, we were hooked!

Of course, we had not started one scrap of paperwork, so we frantically began that. Things were slower for us this time than they were when we adopted Devyn, so that was incredibly frustrating. Mistakes were made by our social worker and our agency. Homeland Security took 75 days this time, as opposed to the 8 days it took last time. But here we are! We received LOA/LSC on July 24, so we should be leaving in approximately 6 weeks. That means we will probably get Jon Wiley before he turns 2. Huzzah!

His Chinese name, Ai Qiang, means Love Strong. A great name! His new name was chosen for several family members: Jon is in honor of Scott's father, John. We spelled it with 3 letters because our middle daughter, Mia, is the only one of us with 3 letters in her first name. The rest of us have 5 letters, which has been noticed and commented upon by Miss Mia. We chose his middle name, Wiley, in memory of my grandfather, Jospeh Wiley True. We are planning to call him Jon Wiley, but his sisters are already calling him Jon-Jon.