Trying to make good use of the wait

While I'm not expecting to hear any news of a court date for several more weeks, I'm keeping busy as there is still a long list of things that need to be done before our second trip. After having a great dinner with my cousin who's visiting from out of town, I came home and was pleasantly surprised to see the crib built. Yea! (Thank you again Gram for buying the furniture for the room. That was so generous, especially since you had already bought Dylan's crib for us.) I still don't have the bedding yet so I'll hold off posting any pictures for now.

Last week I purchased most of the gifts we will be taking with us for our agency and the baby home staff. My aunt very generously donated funds to help us out in doing this and my dad is giving us some ladies watches. We are so lucky to have such great family. I bought 10 pairs of shoes as well to donate to the baby home and we'll buy more diapers in Russia to give them. Next I plan on working on Thank You cards to attach to each of the gifts. I translated a small thank you phrase into Russian....very fun!!

I've also been putting together a photo album of our visit trip to take with us for the courts to see. I've been making digital scrapbook pages and for someone who really doesn't scrapbook, I think they're coming our very very cute. Of course the pages are of our little miss so how ever could they not be cute?? It did take me a few tries to get the formatting right, being a rookie and all (Thank you Costco for letting me return my mistakes!!)

I really am encouraged by all the families returning to Vladivostok for court dates. I am quite hopeful that we'll have her home by Thanksgiving.