About Nola

Nola was born on April 1, 2006 in the city of GuiYang, the capital of the Guizhou Province in the People’s Republic of China. She was abandoned at the gates of a factory on the day she was born and was found by a local woman that brought her into her home and cared for her for five days. This is the woman that named her Han Rui, meaning “cold, auspicious snow” (pronounced kind of like “hawn-ree”). After five days, this woman took Han Rui (Nola) to the GuiYang Children’s Welfare Institute (the orphanage) and she was then put into foster care. We understand she has been in foster care since this time. We hope that we will be able to meet her foster parents when we are in GuiYang so that we can thank them for everything they have done for our daughter. It is probable that Nola will never know her birth mother or father. All that we know of Nola we have learned from her brief medical reports and we have only these three photos of her. We know that when she was 7 ½ months old she weighed 15 lbs., which is around the 75th percentile for children in southern China. Compared to the American growth charts she’s around the 50th percentile for weight and the 75th percentile for height. She had her cleft lip repaired by the good doctors at The Smile Train in December 2006 and her physician at that time indicated her “sleep, pee and poop were normal” We like the sound of that! We also had her files reviewed by a well-known adoption medicine specialist before we wrote our petition, to make sure her special needs were indeed something we were up to addressing, and he gave Nola a clean bill of health. Her files indicate Nola “…is introverted, reasonable and quiet. She likes playing with other children, listening to music, watching cartoons, and playing outside.” She likes to take baths and her favorite toy is a doll with curly hair.

“Not flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone, but still miraculously my own. Never forget for a single minute, you didn’t grow under my heart – but in it.” -Fleur Conkling Heylinger


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