It could be worse....

We haven't had the greatest adoption paperwork week. We had some setbacks that aren't worth going into detail about, but were ridiculous and hopefully they are taken care of. Still no idea when our documents will FINALLY get to China, but in the interest of having a more positive attitude I decided to look up animals that have a longer gestation period than our adoption is taking. We started our paperwork in November 2012 so we're going on about 8 months and as shown below, it could definitely be worse!

1. Giraffes: 13-16 months, plus they give birth standing up and their babies have to survive the fall to the ground!

2. Manatees: 13 months

I especially love the look on the mama manatee's face as her baby is attempting to eat her arm.
Ahh the joys of parenthood!

3. Dolphins: 17-19 months

4. Elephants: 22-24 months

And finally the longest gestation period I could find (according to professor Google) is the frilled shark with a gestation period of 3.5 years. Seriously, 3.5 years???
Also, frilled sharks are really funky looking animals so I have substituted a picture that won't terrify young children.

So hopefully this post has given us all (mostly Brian and I) a little perspective.
We will return to regularly scheduled blogging when our file is finally on it's way to China!