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We just recently started the adoption process. We were looking for fun ways to document the journey. We are not a blogging family and so we are looking for other methods to share the adventure.
For our biological child, we were able to document the pregnancy, etc to share when he gets older. We want this child to feel just as special with something showing him/her the adventure we went on to find them.
What ways have you enjoyed documenting the adoption process?
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My wife and I just started the process ourselves, in fact we just turned in our application 1 week ago. However, she came up with an awesome idea that we are going to use to document the process. We are going to do what we call paper bump pictures. Pretty much the same thing that pregnant women do as the baby grows but, instead of pictures of a growing belly, we are going to take pictures of the growing pile of papers associated with the adoption process. You might also want to poke around on Pinterest. My wife found some really neat ideas on there, particularly ideas on adoption announcements.
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I made a book on shutterfly-children's book style-that tells about our journey. The cool thing with shutterfly (or any online photobook) is you can do a page or so, save it, come back to it later and pick up where you left off...we included photos of the social workers who worked with us, photos of things we and others did awaiting his arrival (like my mom helping put together a crib)...talked about being woken up at 3:54AM to find out his first mom was on the way to the hospital, and being in the drive through at McDs when he beautiful little face popped up in a text. It has a photo of his first mom and talks about how by the time we got there she knew every little birthmark and every hair on his head down to his curled up little toes...how much she loves him and how his name was chosen. It's in our bedtime story rotation.