Adoption

Hello, and welcome to my new blog about adopting from Vietnam.

My family and I are going to Vietnam in 9 days (yay!), to adopt a little baby sister. We've named her Maeve, an Irish name. We are Irish on both sides, so we thought it was appropriate.

I have started this blog as a sort of electronic journal to my sister, family, teachers, and maybe potential adoptees.

Maeve is coming from an orphanage in Ba Vi, a province in Hanoi, North Vietnam. She was abandoned at the orphanage June 15, 2006, making her 10 months old when we pick her up. The doctor said she was well taken care of, swaddled in a yellow towel, wearing a white blouse. She weighed 3.3 kilograms. The orphanage gave her the name Nguyen Thi Hoa and chose June 15 to be her official birthdate, as she was not very old.