Adoption Number Two!

If you are not careful, adoption can become habit forming!  It has in our case and soon after adopting Bethany from Cambodia, we began to think of adopting again.  Our burden from the beginning was to adopt children who might be otherwise considered un-adoptable due to age/medical situation etc. So, since we now knew all about cleft palates, it seemed natural to adopt another cleft affected child.  We also had learned many people prefer to adopt girls, so we decided to adopt a boy with a cleft related condition.  This led us to a baby boy in the same orphanage in Cambodia where Bethany had lived.  Peter Todd came to our home at the age of six months.  What a precious, wonderful son God gave us.  Peter came with a full, unilateral cleft lip and palate, but thanks to wonderful medical services, you would not be able to tell he was born anything but the perfectly wonderful boy he is today! (One more jewel from the East.)

Peter, Bethany, and Mercy

Want to read more?  Find out about adoptions three and four!

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Click here to see "before cleft surgery" photos of Peter and Bethany.