Excited (but no news)
Yesterday marked the one month from our three year wedding anniversary. Why is our three year wedding anniversary so important? That date marks when we can officially be matched with a child. One of the requirements for being qualified to adopt from South Korea is that a couple has to be married for a least three years. We started our process in September of 2007. At that time we completed an application that put us on the list before we were paper ready. To be honest, we won’t be paper ready at the May 14th date. But it will be close to that. However, in any case, we are at the top end of the list which means we hope to be referred a child by the end of June.
Why is this exciting? Well, first let me explain our second important date for May. May also marks the two year anniversary for the starting point of our adoption process for China. This process requires that you become paper ready before you are placed on the waiting. Our paper chase took a little longer then we would like to admit. We were added to the China waiting parent list in February 2007. The original time frame from being put on the list and being referred a child was around 16 months. This would have put us traveling to China to greet out little daughter in September 2008. However, the China time frame keeps on slipping. In attempting to calculating this slipping timeframe, I have come closer in solving the time paradox.
So the reason that we are excited is that after frustration of the China process, we are please to be so close to bring home a little boy from South Korea this September or October. In this excitement we have become more engaged in are parent education, creating the perfect nursery and planning the shower for family and friends.
We have asked a friend to accompany us to the store to create a shower registry. So what does one ask for in adopting a baby. Turns out a lot of the exact same things any child would need (including a full New York Yankees uniform). As you can see from an earlier post, we have already been buying presents for our little one. So this is why we are excited!