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About Enick
 Let
me first answer a few questions, well, mainly one
question, and I only know what I know, so here goes. And
let me say our story is rare, not the normal, and I
believe God was the One who moved to make this happen.
Don’t walk away from our story and assume and think, hey
they did it we could too. You will first have to have an
agency who will advocate for you and let you, a social
worker who will approve you, and the CCAA who will then
allow it to happen. There are a lot of extra “hoops” to
jump through and as you read this story I believe you will
see how divinely orchestrated this was. Now onto Enick’s
story.
Why would China say yes? BUT really even before that, WHY
would we even ask? The answers are very similar actually.
I often visit our agencies yahoo group. I like to see the
children get a family, to see the word "matched" next to
their agency given names. You see there was one other
little guy still unmatched. WHY? He was still young, a
mere 5, his SN was repaired CL/CP. Why was he still
there? I was so drawn to him, taken with him a bit. Let
me back up a bit. When we did our homestudy this time,
USCIS messed with me a bit. Our I1-71h was still current
from our last adoption, they almost let me travel on it.
They made this blanket statement to me, "if your
homestudy had said you were approved for 2 children we
would have let you". I thought, well, I can play your
game, this time, my homestudy will approve me for TWO
children. I told my SW I wanted to be approved for 2.
She questioned me about it, I told her I wanted to "PLAY"
USCIS's game. I felt VERY strongly about having the
approval for 2, I thought it was to get at USCIS, I was
wrong. God had other plans. I REALLY always kinda
thought, gosh if we could bring home 2, but China NEVER
does that. My homestudy from the beginning approved us
for 2 children.
 Ok , back to the other part of the story. While checking
on this little guy, I sent an email, kinda jokingly to DH.
I attached his pic, and said something like, "he is 5, he
is still without a home, can we bring him home too?" He
replied right back to me, a one word answer, "SURE". Now
we kinda thought we were just joking, I mean China
wouldn't do that, right? That night when DH got home from
work he said, "Email our agency, see if they have ever
heard of bringing home two, it can't hurt to ask, right?"
I emailed them. It was a short email. Something like,
"I am interested in "the child's agency name". Have you
ever heard of anyone bringing home 2 before?". Seconds
later, my phone rang. It was our contact at our agency.
She basically said, yes, it's done. You are nuts. That
would be too much. Who do you think you are? Super mom?
She was hard on me, and I was FLOORED. I couldn't answer
one of her questions. I was SO TAKEN BACK with sure you
could do it, that I couldn't answer one of her questions,
not one. She is also a SW, she was doing her job. She
cared about him, she cared about us. So I walked away
from that conversation, with, oh my gosh, we could do
this?? I went and researched. I knew the answers to all
of her questions, I did. I just didn't answer her,
because of shock. I waited a couple of days and sent her
book of an email. I CAN do this. NO, I am NOT supermom.
I spelled out all of the reasons we could handle this, we
could do this. Approvals, no big deal, the only thing
that would have to change would have been our homestudy
for 2, but that was already done. Now mind you I never
told my SW we were bringing home 2 at the same time. I
had to talk to her about all this. ROUND TWO! ARE YOU
NUTS? I talked lots with our SW, she was in shock, that
China would even allow it, and rightfully so, I was too
initially and they don’t do it often if ever. Then when
she thought about it, yes, they could do it. People do it
all the time from other countries, like Russia, and
Ethiopia, it could be done. SOOO, we had the approval of
our agency and our SW. NEXT, China, would they do it? We
waited just over a week to find out, yes, they would.
WHY?
 There are a few reasons China would do this. One, is that
the boys are in the same SWI. Another is that the boys
are with the same agency. Most of the time when they do
these type of things, they are biological siblings, OR
they have the same SN. Neither applies to our boys. They
also have been known to do it in cases of older children,
older than our boys. My agency told me, it isn’t done
often if ever, but if and when it is the kids were never
as young as our boys and in all of the cases they had seen
the kids did have the same SN's. IT IS RARE, they DON'T
DO IT OFTEN!! I felt led to ask. He was supposed to be
ours. That is the only reason he was still there. I KNOW
it.
I tried to not "get attached" to him before we heard from
China. We named him. We framed his picture both on the
wall and in our kitchen next to Elijah's.
Elijah William and Enick Jude. It's good, God is very
GOOD. Really this is the ONLY reason this all happened
for us. GOD. He moved on the hearts of those here and
abroad. The CCAA does want good homes for these kids, but
I believe God was the one who moved on our behalf.
 So now, you probably want some info?? Ok here is a
little. I have triplets, virtually, quadruplets.
It looks like this........... for the four
youngest.........
Eden will be 6 in December
Enick will be 6 in January
Emmali will be 6 in February
Elijah will be 5 in March
Enick has repaired CL/CP. He is 5. I have been told he
will probably need some speech therapy but beyond this he
seems healthy and happy. He is in Tianjin too. We are
told this little guy loves chocolate and trains. Our
agency spent some time with him also back in February. He
seems to be an outgoing wonderful little guy and we cannot
wait to wrap our arms around him.
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