Would you like to meet her?

Today is my birthday and instead of receiving, I would rather give.  For this birthday, I decided to introduce our daughter to you...if you want to meet her. 



So do you want to celebrate with me?

Do you want to meet her?

She's pretty cute and I want to share her with the world today.



OK, I'll stop drawing it out!  Her is our special gift...

OK, so that is a bit of a tease, but I cannot put her full picture online until she is legally ours so all of her identifiable features are covered.  Soon enough, I will be able to share a full picture of her, but until then, you can picture her little toes and pray for her by her new name. 

Meiying Hope Pavlansky 

Meiying means "beautiful flower" in Chinese and is a way to preserve part of her current name as well as hold on to her Chinese heritage.  We take naming our children seriously and spend a lot of time thinking over the meaning of the name and the power that name/meaning holds.  Sure, giving her a full "American" name would be easier on her at times, but we want her to be proud of her heritage and hold on to that special part of her...as her heritage is the only part of her past she has to hold on to.  Her Chinese heritage is something no one can take away from her...even if she is taken out of China.  We definitely want all of our children (adopted and bios) to embrace their heritage and culture...no matter where they are from.

Hope is her middle name and is a name that was heavily put on my heart during my miscarriage* back in September/October 2012...several months into the adoption journey.     I felt God was telling me to give this name to our next daughter...whether bio or adoptee.  

The definition of hope is: to want something to happen or be true and think it could happen or be true.  

While her current name means flower verse or poem, we know she isn't a thriving flower in her current situation.  Our HOPE is to provide her with what she needs (unconditional love, a family, a home, medical attention, support, nurturing...) to thrive, blossom, and bloom.  We want her to become Meiying, the beautiful flower we know God has called her to be; and we have HOPE that she will be.  She she will be rooted into our family with love and God will graft her into our family tree with His amazing grace.    

 *I will post a blog about that miscarriage, more on her name, and what God has shown me through that loss another day.