Adoption Stuff

I still can't decide if I should have two different blogs or what. But for now, I'm just mixing my adoption news in with general info about my family. Anyway, last week, just before we left town, we went to our last adoption class. Hurray! LDS Family Services has a series of 5 classes that everyone has to take before they can adopt. Most of the classes deal with the adoption application process, since it is very involved and usually takes people a few months to finish. The last class we went to was about caring for newborns. Most of it was stuff that people with kids already know, like carseat safety and how to swaddle babies. One part I found interesting was a lesson in infant CPR by a guy from the Red Cross.

Now, we wait. And wait. Until who knows when. Tomorrow, it will have been three weeks, which is still not very long. I know some people wait years, but I really don't think we will have to. We have had people looking at our profile, many of which were probably not birth moms, but we can hope! Basically, there is a big online catalogue of approved adoptive families, and the birth moms who are considering adoption read through them until they find one or two they like. The birth moms then have the option of meeting those families to try to choose who they will place their baby with. But of course, nothing official happens until the baby is actually born. So, we try to wait patiently and pray for "our birth mom" each day. Benjamin continues to play with his imaginary little sister, which is adorable to watch. One day, hopefully not too far in the future, he will have a real little sister.