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So, last week a mom posted pictures on the Luoyang Orphanage Yahoo group we’re members of.  She had sent a birthday cake to her soon-to-be daughter…there are organizations that allow you to do this, they deliver the cake to the orphanage and everything.  We’ll be doing that in July for Dylan’s 3rd birthday.  Anyway, she added the pictures to the yahoo site and told the other waiting families to check and see if any of our kiddos might be in the pictures. 

Well, I’ve looked through ALL the photos posted on that site, in the off chance I might recognize Dylan…even though the latest pictures we have are almost 12 months old.  (We have to wait until May for our agency to request new pictures and updated stats of him.)  In all those photos, none have ever jumped out at me as a possibility for Dylan.  Until…

I was looking through my friend’s pictures and I stopped at this one. 

He’s sitting beside the birthday girl (I cropped the picture).  Is that Dylan?  My friend thought so, after she compared this photo to our referral pictures.  And, someone else on the board posted that she enjoyed the birthday pictures and said “I see Donna’s son, too.”  I asked them why they thought so, and they pointed out…same hairline, eyes, ears (left one looks a little larger, like in our referral pics), and left eyebrow is a little more pointed, too (like we’ve seen in the referral pics). 

After checking other pictures on the Louyang site, I found that someone else had JUST posted a few more from this month.  They were in China with their daughter, and were able to visit the orphanage and take pictures of some of the kids.  And, there he was again…

Scroll down and compare these to our referral pics – understanding that he would have obviously aged quite a bit.  I really see it in his close-up with the red background.  What do you think??