Category: Adoption

Well at least she WILL BE one day. We are very happy to announce that we are going to adopt from China again. Here are the basics:

• We hope to have the adoption completed by next summer.
• It will be a girl because we would like Nadia to have a sister.
• We will be applying for a waiting child/special need child.
• What does that mean? We will be accepting a child with a mild to moderate medical need.
• We are nearly finished fulfilling all the requirements and gathering all the documents that the Department of Homeland Security and China need to adopt from China.
• Everything now has to comply with the Hauge Treaty for adoption. So each step has been a little bit different than what we went through with Nadia, but not drastically different.
• We are hoping for a child between 1 and 2 years old.
• Her first name will be Amelie (pronounced AM-uh-lee) and we will keep her Chinese name as her middle name, like we did with Nadia.
• Nadia is very excited, but said that we should name her Vulture instead, so that she can say, “Vulture, where aaaaare you? Come heeere Vulture.”