3 Months Down!

Ken and I have officially been waiting three months for our referral! We have had many highlights over the past month. First of all, tax season is over, and I have my husband back, I think this is the best of all! Its finally spring, and just two days ago, the last of the snow melted off of my front lawn. And, its April vacation for me, and the weather has been unseasonably gorgeous, I am no longer jealous of all of my colleagues who went away on vacation.

There is not much to report on the adoption front. We still have a gut feeling that we will be traveling for our first trip this summer sometime, but other than that, there is no new news. I keep wanting just to go out shopping for our future children, but not knowing ages or genders, it has been hard to justify any retail therapy. A few weeks ago, though, we did make our first children purchases. Target was having a sale on preschool games, so we picked up candyland, memory and chutes & latters, all for a very cheap price! Other than this, I just daydream at the children's sections of most stores.

We were told that its a good idea to leave our children photo albums on our first trip, so that they can learn who we are while waiting to be brought home. So, we have made two photo albums. I had a hard time not being too crafty with these, but we were advised to make them simple, as they may not be returned to us. Here a just a few pictures from the books.

Papa

Mama

sabaka - dog

home

I spent a whole Sunday afternoon working on my Russian alphabet so that I could correctly write labels for each picture. I would get one word done then ask Ken if it looked right, etc... It was quite the process until he told me hours later that I can make labels on my computer - he told me that he thought that I wanted to hand-write them so he didn't tell me sooner! The computer is much more efficient at making labels in Russian than I am.