Check Out This Photo!!
This is the most recent
photo we have of Kai's new little brother (Note: he's
Cam & Ben's little brother too!). This picture
was taken in October by a parent who was at the
orphanage in Xi'an to adopt their daughter. They
posted it online in an album of photos. They didn't
know us or that we were adopting this little boy when
they took the picture, or when they posted it, but we
are very grateful to them. We have 5 pictures of him
that we received from our adoption agency as part of
his file. In all of those pictures he has a pretty
sad little face, so it was really nice to get one of
him with a happy face!
And now, I'm tired of only using pronouns when
talking about him, so I'm going to tell you the name
we have finally decided on. His new name is Shen.
We will keep Yu-Heng as his middle name, just as we
kept Hui as Kai's middle name.
We had a harder time deciding on this name than we
did with Kai's name. My preference is for short
names. Cameron and Benjamin are longer names but they
have good short versions: Cam and Ben that they use
more regularly. We want to give him a Chinese name
that is not difficult or awkward sounding to
westerners. The Chinese character we chose for Shen
is
深. It means "deep" or "profound".

