looking at video cameras

I recently found my husband looking at ads. That's one of his favorite things to do! He compares prices, searching for the best deal!! He loves to do research about electronics and likes to know about all of the features! We are thinking about buying a video camera for the upcoming adoption. We thought it would be nice to have some footage of the first time we see our child and some of the other "firsts." We have a small handheld camera that takes shorter video clips too. 

Because we're living overseas we will need to go visit our baby before he/she goes through court in order to get a certain type of visa that allows the child to become an automatic citizen upon crossing US soil. We would love to have some video to bring back home with us as we wait for the court date. That will definitely be a hard time. The second time we go back for our child we'll leave Ethiopia with our child and go straight to the states to take care of the citizenship and visit family before coming back home.