Hooray!

Hey Jen! This is definitely a great category to add to the forum and I'm glad to see you involved in it. Thanks also to Sarah! Don't have any experience with adopting two at once, but just wanted to drop by and say hi :) ! Lori

I think this is an awesome idea!!! Thanks for creating this forum! My name is Kim, my dh, Rob, and I adopted two infants (biologically unrelated) simultaneously from Guatemala. Our little girl just turned 13 months and is 6 weeks older than her younger brother who will be 1 next Saturday. So many people ask if they are twins or if it feels like raising twins. I have no clue what raising twins feels like so I can't answer that one! Right now, though, they are at very different spots developmentally so Londy, our daughter definitely seems older. But I'm guessing as Jeremy catches up, they may seem closer and closer in age. I can't wait to meet everyone! Kim

Hello all! We adopted William and Timothy from Russia June 26, 2004! They are 10 months apart and are 4 and 5 right now. They were best friends in the orphanage and we didnt go into the whole process knowing that we would adopt two (I had thought about it but really didnt know) until we went to meet William and he kept asking for Tim, his best friend. They were so inseparable and the conditions so heartbreaking there we just ended up adopting them both. Our whole process was very quick... 90 days from the first visit to the agency until they were home so we didnt have a lot of planning time and as a result, we struggled mightily for our first 5-6 months home. We felt like we were way in over our head... these were our first kids so we had no experience! We finally turned the corner around Christmastime and the boys are doing very well! :) I think we were expecting all roses and fun when we got home and it was a lot of hard work and not at all like our rose colored glasses had made us think that adopting two preschoolers would be. Now that we are more realistic, its a lot better. I just wanted to make sure to post that for those who might be struggling.... I felt like a freak when I wasnt as "thrilled" as other newly adopted moms! We all adjust at our own pace..... Here's a picture of my DH and boys last summer....

I am also glad they started this thread I have so many times in just the last few months wondered why I adopted both kids at them same time. I wasn't suppose to get both of my children together but she got caught up in the courts and he flew out. It has really been hard for me since she came home as a citizen and he was not ( we were going to see him when we picked her up!!! our agency kept telling us she was getting out soon!!!) I have had to do a lot more paperwork for him and every one of his documents takes forever to get back from the gov where as hers come back quickly. Thanks again for starting this thread