IM Heading To China For the Olympics! And to get our DAUGHTER!
 

Some of you close to me in the Biz knew my wife and I were trying to adopt a daughter from China.. ITs been a very long and painful process for us both. Very long process.

As of today, It's official. Our China Adoption has FINALLY (after over a year and a half) been processed. We are heading to China during the Olympics to get our Daughter and to see the Olympics.

The wife is very very very excited. Myself like a typical guy, Im very excited, and Happy but im a bit scared as well. Was freaking out some yesterday. Im going to be dad.(again!) Its kinda scarry!


On the lighter side of things, my wife knows im a bit freaked so I just negioated for myself more guys trips!! (she knows freedom or lack there of scares me)
You should see the long list of negioations I got from her with our first born..

Anything else I should ask for? I got a green light for the World Series of Poker again too.

After that, we are Heading back to China!
The Mother Land Baby! Adopting from the same Village my grandparents were from. I cant wait to go.

Going to be a dad again. Pretty excited., happy, pumped up And scared all in one.


And here I thought I wasnt scared of anything!

I bet she will be awesome at math

Are you going to baptize her in the river? ;)

http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/...n-prob-002.jpg

haha..I'm very good in math too..

LOL... Probably not. She's going to be Americanized... We get her at 1 year of age... She wont know shit about math! Especially being my daughter.

And before someone throws out a Bukkake joke, thats not China, it Japan you fuckers.

Great news, congratulations.

Best of luck, and congratulations at the same time dood... big move.

Yeah man, thats why we are adopting her. If you only knew how bad it is over there.
And how they treat little girls it would make you cry.

They are treated like garbage. Literally.

The gooks over there are only allowed one child. They all want boys. Baby girls are killed, or left in dumpsters, or in rivers like that.

Our Daughter was left on the doorstep of the police station at 1 day old.

:(

ITs a horrible epidemic over there. And the closed media governement has been hiding it for many many years.

Mexicans are good at math?

It's so great you're doing that. I am trying to talk my wife into doing the same due to the research I've done on Chinese kids.

Plus I am cheap and I need someone to do my taxes.

Congratulations! :)

Our next door neighbour adopted a baby from China 10 years ago. She happens to be our 10 year old son's best friend.

Carol xoxoxo

Congrats and good luck with your "new" daughter :)

Yes it's very sad.. Sorry BP, wasn't trying to take a shot, just last night I watched an investigative reporting thing on the pollution in China, and how bad it really is. Mostly from mining plants apparently, and the government's antiquated ego where nothing matters to them but money. They're using that red water to irrigate their plants, then they eat the plants, get cancer, have growths all over them, it's nasty.

Also saw a study yesterday that suggests eating a good diet that's high in calories and potassium will cause a higher %% of boys to be born VS girls. Something like 57% to 43% in their study. Eating a few bananas every day prior to conception and during early pregnancy will highly increase your chances of having a boy apparently.

Good on you for doing all the necessary work to make this a reality. I have a 3 month old baby myself, and it's amazing! :)

Congrats on your new baby!

*hugs and kisses*

We also went the "special needs" route...

We were inspired by the "smiles" program, a program which helps children around the world with cleft lip or cleft palate.. In 3rd world coutries this easily fixable disease is left untreated and the children go on living lives with facial deformity.

IF treated at an early age it is almost undetectable as an adult.


With my healthcare background along with my wife's as well as having the ability to afford plastic surgery and healthcare for a child we chose to go the Cleft lip/palate route.

This girl will be a princess here with us.. In China she would be left behind and a circus freak.. (shit you not)

Her life would be unimaginable. Not just as a female Orphan in China, but as a girl with a deformed face.

1 year is the best to get a kid at. Still easily impressionable but most of the up all night crap is out of the way. Congrats man glad to hear your helping a child in need and your family at the same time.

Jesus Christ man. Just now hearing of this. This hit me pretty hard.

This girl just hit the Lottery. Maybe even something bigger than the lottery if you think about it. Very happy for you two. WOW.

What is the difference between Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate?

Very touching - I'm impressed. :thumbsup

Congratulations to you and your wife - your Little Princess is blessed to have two such loving and caring people welcoming her into their lives...

ADG

I remember this pic of the BP4L hitting the Great Wall of China for the first time.

Not even the Great wall a wonder of the world could hold back the BP4L.

http://a707.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...f106cf05b2.jpg

http://a826.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...0d05d3ece9.jpg

http://a403.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...80d6f2400a.jpg

Goofy Fucker

Actually you know what boneprone, let's do some business together man

I remember you were one of the first people I met that gave me some time and advice on the show floor in Vegas 2002... 2003? fuck.. :) as were Gary and Bob from YNot.

You're a good guy, I like good people. :) How can I contact you?

My e-mail is [email protected]
ICQ is... 437201916

I'm totally serial. Let's talk.

LOL. Looking at BP's Myspace pics.

Im suprised your wife was willing to go back to China!
The great wall hike almost killed her last time.

http://a857.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...577dd04498.jpg

Congratz BP!

MOre pics from Boneprone's myspace. (looks like hes posting pics as we speak)

http://a6.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...e5af0d7c35.jpg

The water is green there!

Congrats on the little girl..

and that river is disgusting.. if nothing else maybe the Olympics will shed light on how bad China actually is.

:1orglaugh
http://www.ryulion.com/images/b4after.jpg

some of my finest work. :1orglaugh

Congrats BP! My wife and I have been talking about this for a while. We want children, but I'm not a fan of the newborn stage. With her being full Chinese, she knows of what happens there to little girls. I'm slowly warming up to the idea, and we may do the same.

Congrats man. And good luck.

I didn't know this..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1506469.stm
:(:Oh crap:(

It is an amazing choice and I commend you to the up most degree. You and your wife are guardian angels. I wish you a lifetime of love shared.

Congrats on the adoption man, that's great to hear!!!

Congrats man, it must feel good!

Thats VERY cool man.. Much respect to you for it.

Yeah, they know how to multiply.

Congrats to you...

gringos know how to obey US laws..
:1orglaugh:upsidedow:1orglaugh

Impressive, great thing to do.

Calderon (the new Mexican president) apparently has a few family members living illegally in the USA, but won't say who they are or where they live.. ;)

Hey Man, congrats.

Did you get tickets to any of the events? I was just over there visiting my sister and a friend of theirs said that they were only selling them via lottery to people who are residents of China.

Also the one child policy can be avoided by paying a small tax apparently. But it's still a huge problem there obviously. You are a good man for adopting.

Congrats!

God Bless you all and safe travels!

Congratulations on the newest addition to your family... she's a lucky little girl to have such wonderful parents :)

that before/after pic is HILARIOUS :)

congrats

Thanks guys. Been busy with paperwork all day.

Big day for us.

LOL.. I had to really look at that for a while to figure out if that was Jason or not.

"i fucked her." - boneprone. :upsidedow

congrats

I dont know if I can reconmend it at this time. With the Olympics and with all the shit the government over there is trying to hide its backlogged the whole system. Its up to a THREE YEAR wait right now..

Horrible.

Id wait till after the olympics. Maybe next year this time and see if things have been speeding up. The whole system is on a hault right now.

Unless you are willing to go the special needs route right now, its a very long wait.

It used to be 1 year. Now its up to 3. However Im thinking that once the public eye is off China, they will start opening the doors again to the overpopulated hidden orphanages.

Old article from 2001...

ITs gotten worse................

Hopefully with the spolight on China during the Olympics some more light will be on this epidemic of an issue over there.

Wow, congratulations to you & your family on your newest addition!
Have a safe trip there & home :)