With a 12 month old!

We've been in the process for adopting a little girl from China and found out today (my birthday) that we've been "matched" with a 12 month old beauty.

So now the process starts to get the paperwork from the US, China, and the Navy to go to China and pick her up.

8/6/2013 12:27:51 AM

congrats!

but what say does the navy have in adopting foreign children?

8/6/2013 12:29:23 AM

why would you have a real child and adopt one

I'm not seeing any logic there

all I can foresee is problems

8/6/2013 12:32:53 AM

^^ they can approve or disapprove my leave to go

and security clearance

[Edited on August 6, 2013 at 12:34 AM. Reason : yep]

8/6/2013 12:34:04 AM

so let me get this straight

in addition to adopting a year old baby from the nation of China, your wife is also 3 months past term with a baby in her uterus.

congrats X 2?

8/6/2013 12:34:43 AM

8/6/2013 12:44:34 AM

i want to go to china. i admire the chinese very much.

8/6/2013 12:57:46 AM

ohhhh so you're IN the navy... im stupid sorry

i was put under the impression that for some odd reason if any couple wanted to adopt the baby, the navy would be all like "YOU WANT A BABBY? YOU GOTTA GO THROUGH ME"

8/6/2013 1:01:33 AM

>mixing a Chinese girl with a white girl

8/6/2013 1:03:50 AM

Get it to build me an iPhone 5.

8/6/2013 1:04:19 AM

what are you going to name her? I grew up around a Grace, Pearl, and Ruby. Seems like they love these soft names.

[Edited on August 6, 2013 at 1:10 AM. Reason : soft may not be the right word im looking for]

8/6/2013 1:09:49 AM

Good luck and congrats!

8/6/2013 7:30:15 AM

Adopt an American baby

they sell domestic babies too, no need to travel

8/6/2013 7:38:02 AM

some american baby in a orphanage just smashed his glass of burbon against the wall in a rage and tearfully, angrily, distantly stares into the fireplace, hate festering in his little drunken baby heart

8/6/2013 7:39:24 AM

Say that reminds me, how'd you get that kid so darn fast? Me and Dot went in to adopt on account a' somethin' went wrong with my semen, and they said we had to wait five years for a healthy white baby. I said, "Healthy white baby? Five years? What else you got?" Said they got two Koreans and a negra born with his heart on the outside. It's a crazy world.

8/6/2013 9:19:48 AM

^
China is like the Wal-Mart of adoptions. You touch down at the airport in Beijing and they just start throwing babies and fortune cookies at you.

8/6/2013 9:35:36 AM

^^ I'd buy tickets.

8/6/2013 9:46:12 AM

close, but I'll allow it.

8/6/2013 9:57:17 AM

holla at shoot for more info. you know how he do.

8/6/2013 10:01:05 AM

It's not enough that everything we buy is made in China, you've got to go and adopt a Chinese baby too? You don't like to buy American? There are plenty of Made In The USA, American babies right here. Are the ones made in China cheaper? Their quality control isn't as good and they use third rate parts. Do you know how long the employees in a baby-making factory have to work? Those shifts are BRUTAL.

8/6/2013 10:06:50 AM

the ones made in china are essentially cheaper because they will make you a ton of money.

8/6/2013 11:04:08 AM

perhaps he just doesn't want to teach his child math as it ages

[Edited on August 6, 2013 at 11:11 AM. Reason : innate skills and all that]

8/6/2013 11:11:07 AM

i wonder if they're gonna call her a rescue

8/6/2013 11:12:06 AM

literally dont ask shoot for advice on anything

8/6/2013 1:56:53 PM

DAMMIT bigman

stop defeating me with your boozed up babies

8/6/2013 2:34:34 PM

i love this thread

love it dearly

8/6/2013 2:49:43 PM

Quote :

"I grew up around a Grace, Pearl, and Ruby. Seems like they love these soft names."

Rubies are very hard minerals, I'm not sure why you think it's a soft name

8/6/2013 4:20:49 PM

tell you what, I leave you guys alone for half a day and look at what happens


this is why we can't have nice things

8/6/2013 10:04:48 PM

congrats!

8/6/2013 10:08:37 PM

oh hey tww, whats going on in here

8/6/2013 10:15:19 PM

Does lead poisoning come preloaded, or what?

8/6/2013 10:19:23 PM