tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74782519825326458662024-03-06T14:42:47.878+08:00China LoveRandy and Rita Rippeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06622101498092412751noreply@blogger.comBlogger668125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478251982532645866.post-9839419853794677822013-12-19T23:50:00.000+08:002013-12-19T23:50:23.324+08:00<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">We've begun a new blog for our adventure in India if you'd like to continue following our family. It is </span><a href="http://unconditionallovefororphans.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;">unconditionallovefororphans.blogspot.com</a>Randy and Rita Rippeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06622101498092412751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478251982532645866.post-24629826450084859592013-10-20T13:06:00.001+08:002013-10-20T13:06:49.906+08:00Our Little BlessingsWe are very busy packing and making final arrangements for everything here. We took a few minutes to make this collage picture to bless Rose, Zoe and Camilla's new foster mama. It will be something she can cherish now and after they leave for their forever families. I'm positive this will also bless their new forever families some day. As an adoptive parent myself, who got NO other early pictures of our daughters, I know how much they will love getting these pictures of their daughters! New Day also has a copy of it so they'll be sure to get it. <br />
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We love and miss Zoe and Camilla soooo much! We have had a few reports from their foster mama who tells us they are doing very well. THAT just helps us so much to know!!<br />
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Camilla received this beautiful new dress and cape from a visiting mothers group from Beijing for her 2nd birthday. I've been wanting to do some nice outdoor pictures in it but just hadn't found the time or the weather hasn't cooperated. This morning was a beautiful day and we just said "We're doing it!" </div>
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Such a beautiful girl in a beautiful dress!</div>
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Beautiful Zoe in her beautiful dress!</div>
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Love this picture of the two of them!</div>
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For the past 10 days or so, Rose, one of New Day's nannies who has just retired, has been visiting Zoe and Camilla so they can all become more acquainted with one another. That's right, Rose will soon be their new foster mama! We couldn't be happier that the girls were able to be placed together in the same foster family and we were even more tickled that it was Rose! We have no doubt that they'll be in good hands and well taken care of. On Thursday, they will officially move to her home. The girls love her and are getting excited. <br />
Rose wanted to bless our family by making us some jiaozi (dumplings) today. <br />
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Here Zoe gets a lesson on how to properly wrap a jiaozi.</div>
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Then she tries one on her own. </div>
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Camilla gets a lesson from big sister Shawna. Though, what she really wanted was just to skip the lesson and dig into it straight away by herself!</div>
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She's admiring what a beautiful jiaozi her and Shawna made.</div>
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Look at that yummy stuff just waiting to be boiled!</div>
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Though this wasn't even all of it--there were a couple of other bowls full in the kitchen being boiled already, Rose must have thought we were VERY HUNGRY!! Elise counted the jiaozi and there were 164!! There were only 8 of us eating and two of them were little girls! That was enough jiaozi for 2 big meals! But alas, that's how it's done in the Chinese culture--always more than enough food when serving guests.Randy and Rita Rippeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06622101498092412751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478251982532645866.post-59394439933837259392013-10-06T15:53:00.000+08:002013-10-06T15:53:19.917+08:00More Beautiful Children!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Randy and Rita Rippeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06622101498092412751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478251982532645866.post-31961221944903213892013-10-06T10:29:00.000+08:002013-10-06T10:29:14.319+08:00Beautiful Children!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Over the holiday, we've done much packing and getting things ready to mail to India, things going to America, as well as give away stuff (mostly give away). However, there was one thing I've been wanting to do all summer and just never got around to it. One day we took time out just to do this--take some family pictures in our traditional Chinese outfits. The pictures turned out great. Getting everyone to cooperate, especially the two little ones, well........you know how that goes. But we did get some great pictures and that's all that matters!! Thought you all might enjoy seeing them and wanted to for sure post them for the little ones' forever families that we know will come along some day soon! Enjoy!!</div>
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Left to Right: Camilla, Shawna, Elise, Elizabeth and Zoe in front.</div>
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Zoe and Camilla</div>
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Zoe</div>
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Camilla, Shawna, Elizabeth, and Elise</div>
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I was taking the older girls' pictures and Camilla was sure she had to be in it too! </div>
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Left to Right back row: Elise, Shawna, Camilla, Elizabeth. Front row: Zoe and Austyn</div>
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One of the last shots taken and kids were clearly getting tired :)</div>
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We moved our family here to China more than 9 years ago, in August 2004, to work with orphans. It was in June of 2008, during the Olympics, that we moved from Dalian to New Day to spend more time fulfilling the purpose to which we knew we were called. After a year here, we began the Forever Home--a home for older special needs orphans. <br />
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People often told us of the blessing we were to these girls, but in all honesty, we felt more blessed by them! They have been such a joy to love and work with and we have been blessed beyond all measure at seeing the progress these girls have made. Our daughters have been such an intricate part of blessing these girls and have lovingly taken them in and made them feel such a part of our family. We are so proud of the love they have poured out onto and sacrificed for these precious orphans! They have continued to give of themselves when, many times, the circumstances have not always been easy. We couldn't be prouder of them and I know how much they have truly been blessed by these wonderful Forever Home girls!<br />
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In all, we have been able to live with and touch the lives of 16 children, 6 of which were adopted and now have forever families of their very own. It was a time of great sadness when the first set of 4 of our girls were recalled to their orphanage due to a recent fire in another province, which then brought about changes in orphanages' policies. We had hoped that it would only be temporary and that perhaps after things settled down, we might even get our girls back. However, that did not happen and worse yet, another of our girls was recalled to her orphanage in April. It was heartbreaking for us when this happened and our biggest concern was for our girls and how it would affect them. <br />
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Still yet, we held out hope that perhaps things would settle down and change. However, that has not happened and we have had to face the reality that our work here as a Forever Home to these children was coming to an end. I have to admit, it was very difficult to see those hopes and dreams slowly fade away of us helping more and more orphans here know the love of a family. Just the thought of not being able to help more girls brought tears and great sadness.<br />
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In the midst of all this, we do know one thing, that He has a greater plan. Our time here has come to and end but the question was what was next for us?! While we could have stayed here and done other things offered to us, we knew in our hearts that it just wasn't right for us. It wasn't our passion and we had to go with what our hearts were telling us. <br />
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Though it has taken months of soul searching and research, we have felt the calling to continue with what we know He has called us to do, but in a new place. On October 22nd, we will be flying to the states for a 3 month visit to see our family and friends and do some fund-raising for our new adventure. Then in January, the exact date yet to be determined, we will fly to INDIA to begin working with older special needs orphans there. We've even already been assigned a specific group of 8 girls!<br />
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We will be working for an organization called Sarah's Covenant Homes <a href="http://www.schindia.com/">http://www.schindia.com/</a> or <a href="http://sarahscovenanthomes.blogspot.com/">http://sarahscovenanthomes.blogspot.com/</a> if you'd like to check it out. India has over 25 1/2 million orphans under the age of 17! Obviously there is a great need. We are very excited about the new adventure He has for our family there!<br />
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As awesome as that new adventure is, there is a sad part to all of this and that is leaving China. We have lived here for 9 years now and leaving is not easy, though we have no doubt that it is exactly the new path He has for our lives. We will miss so many things about China! But, <b>by far</b>, the <i>hardest</i> part of all this is having to leave behind our current precious foster girls, Camilla and Zoe. They have both been with us for almost a year. We love them so dearly and parting with them is not easy :(( However, we know that they will be well taken care of and are thrilled that New Day already has a perfect plan in place for our two special little ones. We are so thankful for His provision for them!<br />
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We will continue to post pictures of Camilla and Zoe until our departure so that future parents may have those precious early pictures of their girls! As adoptive parents ourselves, we know what a blessing that is!<br />
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In the meantime, we continue to pack and prepare for our departure. It's amazing how much a family can collect in 9 years!<br />
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We've also begun a new blog for our adventure in India if you'd like to continue following our family. It is <a href="http://unconditionallovefororphans.blogspot.com/">unconditionallovefororphans.blogspot.com</a><br />
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We wanted to thank each one of you for your many prayers, financial help, love and encouragement during our time and work here in China. We pray that you will continue to love and support our new work with the orphans of India and look forward to your continued emails, chats, and messages!<br />
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Zoe says, "I see you!"</div>
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Camilla has to reach through and touch her.</div>
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Camilla is often wanting to sit in Zoe's lap. Zoe is more than happy to accommodate her. Then what generally follows, I was able to capture on photo one day :)<br />
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Soon the giggling begins......</div>
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Camilla then gives Zoe a kiss, but oh....discovered I was taking pictures :)</div>
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Naturally, it's all sooo hilarious!!</div>
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One of our cooler afternoons, Elise decides to take the little ones out for a play in the square. There they go.<br />
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Camilla works on her badmitten skills.</div>
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Didn't take them long to get tired of this game. Perhaps it's a little to advanced for them, they they always want to try anyway.<br />
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Such a sweet picture! I just love this!</div>
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Camilla plays dress-up with a baby blanket.</div>
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Zoe really likes books.</div>
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Camilla is a climber! Every time you turn around, she's climbing on something. Not even two yet and she can pretty much get to anywhere she wants. Almost, that is!</div>
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Anywhere there's a little lip or place to put her little toes, is a good place to climb :)</div>
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Here, she climbs up to watch dad catch the two loose birds who escaped their cage.</div>
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Then there's the buffet, she likes to see if there is anything interesting up there that she can reach~normally off limits stuff, so definitely have to set it toward the middle or back now :)<br />
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Then there's the safety gates we put up. She's always standing and climbing up on those. Can hardly wait until she learns how to open them herself! I suspect it won't be long now though. Then nothing will be safe!<br />
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OH, <i><b>this</b></i> is probably her favorite! Gets up there and does the superman type move~balancing on her belly while spreading out her arms and legs like she's flying! Where <i>do</i> they learn this stuff?!Randy and Rita Rippeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06622101498092412751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478251982532645866.post-63169443058090604912013-07-22T19:48:00.001+08:002013-07-22T19:48:08.136+08:00Just Another Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two of Zoe's favorite things`--duplos and dollies! Recently Zoe got the idea that she could make her dollies their own personal chairs out of duplo blocks. And that's just what she did! She's a pretty clever girl :)Randy and Rita Rippeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06622101498092412751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478251982532645866.post-44852750595895702962013-07-17T08:00:00.000+08:002013-07-17T08:00:00.672+08:00Our Heritage Tour #2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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This is where the Chinese officials meet and make the laws.<br />
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These are after show pictures as we weren't allowed to take pictures of the actual performance. It's a shame too, it was the one of the best performances we'd seen! We'd highly recommend it if you visit Beijing!!<br />
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We thought this show was put on by children. However, at the end of the performance, they had all of them say their ages. They were all in their 20's! They are "little people."<br />
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Elise and Shawna decided to make the trek to the top. Did we, nope! Once you've been there and done that, see no need to repeat it--especially with such a strenuous climb! Notice the sweat dripping from her hair.<br />
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Did they make it to the top??? Nope, they gave up after climbing most of the way. They've been to the top already too and it's quite the climb :0<br />
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Last week we went on a family holiday in Beijing. Yeah, I know..it's not very far, but it was very good and probably a once-in-a-lifetime trip for our girls. You see, back in January we heard about a trip to China, (yes, i know we already live in China, but!) from our adoption agency. It had been several years since our family had visited many of these places and Elizabeth had never gone to any of these. The tour was for adopted kids 10 years old and their parents. Since we had 3 girls in that category we inquired and asked permission to bring all 3 girls as it only seemed to make allowance for up to 2 adopted girls (though didn't say you couldn't have more). We got permission very quickly and then put in our application to be accepted to go. This was put on by the Chinese government and was for 6 days and 5 nights in Beijing. It was a heritage tour and they were taking them to all the sites in Beijing. The best part of all was that it was FREE!! That even included the hotel, tour bus, site entry fees, and all meals!! Can you imagine that! The <i>only</i> cost was a $200 fee to our adoption agency to set up the trip. <br />
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Our girls were soooo excited and greatly looked forward to this trip for many months!! We had a great time and saw many sites. We would leave the hotel at 8am and not return until 9 or 9:30pm! I think we walked a hundred miles or so, we were exhausted each night but it was a good exhaustion! We went to the Great Wall, Tiannamen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Folk Art and Show, Shao lin Kung Fu theatre show (awesome!), famous Beijing Walking Street (wangfujing), the Great Hall of the People (where they meet and make the laws) the Beijing Opera Performance School (where they even got to get made-up opera style) and toured The Peking University. <br />
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Though we'd have loved to brought our two foster daughters, Zoe and Camilla, it was not possible due to the fact that it was for adoptees 10 years and up along with parents. It meant 6 days away from them and I wasn't looking forward to that! It was a good time, but we missed our little ones soooo much!! Then to top it all off, they became sick while we were gone. Zoe was the first with a fever for a day or two, but then Camilla got sick with a fever the day before we returned. It was really hard not to rush back home!<br />
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We were oh sooo glad to see them when we returned. The feeling was pretty mutual!</div>
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A couple of weeks ago, one of our guinea pigs had two babies. The girls have been fascinated and entertained by them since! Camilla, well....she needs some guidance on how to properly handle them :) She tries to pick them up by their fur wherever!<br />
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Zoe clearly knows how to handle one!</div>
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The proud <strike>momma</strike> owner of these sweet little ones! It was her guinea pig who had them.</div>
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Zoe loves swinging!</div>
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Apparently Camilla does too!</div>
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The teeter-totter is pretty fun too!</div>
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Funny story....Camilla got on this rocking horse and then pointed to the other one and told dad to get on it. When he said no, he was too big, she showed her frustrations by slapping her leg and giving him a "humph!"<br />
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Toes in the sand, something new for Camilla--didn't seem to mind at all.</div>
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Zoe's excited about getting to swim!</div>
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As always, there's the dash to the mirror to check things out :)</div>
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Both girls now checking out their swimsuits in the mirror.</div>
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Camilla says, "Hey! Check this out! Mine has a pocket!!"</div>
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Camilla didn't have a swimsuit so we got out the tape measure to see the right size for ordering one off taobao (like amazon in the states). She thought that was pretty great and quickly grabbed the tape measure and ran over to the mirror, where she has to check everything out these days. Darn, missed the picture of her measuring herself in front of the mirror, but captured this one when she turned around after discovering we had a camera :)</div>
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Soon as it arrives, she'll be ready for some summer swimming in the new pool!</div>
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Guess who likes to play peek-a-boo?!</div>
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Oops, dropped her cookie :)</div>
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It's me, Camilla!</div>
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Zoe then decided she'd play a little peek-a-boo too!</div>
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Dad came home from the store the other day with this little pool. Of course, we had to blow it up and try it out right away. Although the weather has definitely been warm enough for it, it has cooled off the past few days or week. So........they just pretended for now. Soon, hopefully this weekend, we are hoping that it'll be warm enough to put water in it so they can try it out for real!<br />
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Looks like fun, huh girls?!</div>
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Just lounging in the pool! Soon girls, very soon!</div>
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