Howdy!

Hi everybody and welcome to Buffy: the Baby Blog.

For anyone wondering what's going on here, Karen and I decided earlier this year to adopt a baby girl from China.
We are both very excited and anxious about the prospect of becoming parents. Yeek! :)

Our current reading list includes Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care and Caring for Your Baby and Young Child by the American Academy Of Pediatrics.

As Karen said, we've already done a lot of the paperwork. If you look at the average wait times and baby ages, we should be getting a "referral" sometime in the Fall of 2007. That's where the officials in China match you with a baby and send you a picture. Then after another wait, we'll go to China for 2-3 weeks and should be back with Buffy around Christmas!
She will likely be 9-12 months old at that point.

We're using Great Wall China Adoption as our agency, and they're doing right by us so far.
Here are some photo galleries of kids that have been adopted through them already.
In about a year, we should have some pictures in there too!