Fuzhou Social Welfare Institute (SWI)

We did some research and found pictures and information about the Orphanage Emma is at right now. The Social Welfare Institute (SWI) in the city of Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, China. It's a modern building that can house about 300 orphans. I found this website with lots of Pictures.

http://tanowitz.typepad.com/photos/fuzhou/index.html

It looks much nicer than the dickinsonian place I had imagined when we first started the adoption.

Emma Grace Tobar

We got our referral November 5th 2007! Over 2 years of paper work and waiting is finally coming to an end! Emma will be 10 Months old when we meet her, around the end of December. We won't know the exact travel dates for 2-3 weeks. Sounds like we may be celebrating Christmas in China. Can you believe it? I hear they do celebrate the holiday in China somewhat. We were actually in Belize on our Honeymoon December 2005 too. Anyway, we are very excited about this new phase in our lives. I can't wait to see Emma and all her cousin's play and interact!

Welcome to our Blog

Inspired by my cousin Jennifers (http://jeninethiopia.blogspot.com/) very well done Blog, we have left our Yahoo Group, and will be only using this new web presence. Google is very Cool! Using Google's Picasa2 photo organizing software it's 10 times easier to update Web Albums and keep the site up to date. Our plan is to post pics of mildstones in our families life, Birthday's Holidays etc. If you click on the slide shows to the left, it will take you to all our Puplic Albums. If theres anything new I'll try to send an email letting everyone know. If not you can favorite the site in IE and check now and then. Don't expect much to change, maybe once every 2-3 months we'll have new pictures.