child number 2

well, i don’t think i’ve made it public yet, via the blog anyway….

we’re well underway with the process of adopting our second child from china.

today was our first of three home study visits. it was really a piece of cake. i think the fact that we’ve adopted before helped. our social worker observed us with darby, checked out our house, helped us go through some necessary paperwork, asked some questions about our parenting style, views on discipline, plan for communicating with darby and child #2 about adoption, etc. she’ll use all this information to write up a 15-or-so-page report about us that the CCAA will use to match us with a waiting child.

i promise i’m not bitter about it because i understand the need. but it’s odd to me that potential adoptive parents have to go through a fairly rigorous process to be deemed fit to be parents, whereas any two drunk idiots can jump in the sack and become parents with no scrutiny whatsoever. (did that sound bitter?)

anyway, with the wait times for chinese adoption referrals continuing to get longer and longer, we’re fully expecting it to be 2010 or 2011 before we bring child number 2 home. that’s a crazy long gestation period!

but, all i have to do is look into these beautiful eyes to remember again how well worth-it the wait is.