Why China?

I get this question all the time. Why China? Why that country? Why not Russia, or Guatemala, or Columbia, or Haiti, or Ethiopia, or Korea, or even the US?

Well, it's complicated but not.

1. We want a daughter. After 2 boys, we really want a girl. Ah...PINK!
2. We did not want to be away from the boys for a long period of time.
3. Korea we had to go special needs for our country.
4. The other international countries just didn't "feel right" to us for different reasons.
5. The US, we are not 100% comfortable with the way domestic adoption works currently. I guess the media has scared us off from domestic adoptions. Plus you can not specify a girl.
6. We did not feel like we could handle the Foster to Adopt scenario.
7. We really like the Chinese culture, so integrating that into our lives will not be a huge problem.

So...that's mostly why. Now, aren't you glad you asked?