Sunday, July 20, 2008
Emma Claire is a Baby With No Teeth
That's what Chloe says a lot lately. She likes to talk about Emma Claire in China as if she were born. She doesn't comprehend that we still have another two years to wait before we even get to see a photo of Emma Claire. If the two year wait holds true, then that means that in a probability, Emma Claire is not even conceived yet.
But, Chloe likes to talk about her little sister. It confuses people and we often get the question, "She has a sister in China?". I have had to explain to people on several occassions that we are adopting again and waiting for a referral from China and that NO Chloe does not have a sister with which she communicates in China (right now anyway).
Even though it is a long way off, I don't mind Chloe talking about Emma Claire in the "here and now". It helps her process. Chloe asked me today if we would put Emma Claire in a baby carrier. I told her I didn't know but that we didn't use a carrier for her when she came home. She seemed offended and most adamant that she was in a baby carrier at some point in her life and told me, "I bet my birthmother put me in a baby carrier."
The wait for this adoption is hard for Chloe to understand, but as she gets older it becomes a springboard to talk about her adoption.
So, we continue to wait and to think of E.C. daily. We have said that we would like to have 3 children and are now considering a concurrent adoption. I have been calling and talking to agencies about different programs. Many agencies are now open to concurrent adoptions for people in the China program whereas only a year ago they would not allow it. One agency even told me that concurrent is a joke...we would be able to adopt, have the baby home for a year before our China adoption. In other words, it's not really concurrent.
As we check into options for baby #3 (who would technically be baby#2), we still wait for Emma Claire.
| posted by Shannon at 7:02 PM
