Still waiting for confirmation from our agency that our on-line application got sent in. After that, we wait for our pre-approval (PA) which may take a few days, or up to a couple of weeks. In the meantime, we've requested updated medical records since hers are 9 months old. We've also requested either a CT scan or an MRI. I was crossing my fingers that we'd get one or the other until I got an interesting note from the international adoption doctor we're working with... I'll save that for a new post. Need to think through it first and talk about it with Parker.
Yesterday, I got the sweetest photos of the little girl in the mail. Thankfully I remembered one of the blogs or yahoo group posts about ordering the prints from our agency's website immediately as they take them down as soon as you commit. Whew! Got in there in the nick of time. Literally an hour after I placed my order, they were removed!
I've also been up to no good with my credit card. I've made a few girly purchases this week. Buying girl stuff is kinda fun! Coordinated outfits and shoes, oh my! I bought 2 adorable pairs of shoes on clearance at Target. This may sound absurd, but as much as I shop there, I've never even looked at kids shoes! Crazy, right. The main reason being this: My boys wear sneakers and/or crocs. Blah. Boring. AND they have high insteps so they have to have shoes that either come in wide, or have two velcro straps rather than 1. I figured out early on which brands and styles work for the big kid and I've just stuck to them. Mostly ordering 10 pairs at a time from zappos. I keep what fits now or will work in the coming months, and return the rest, free of charge. But this girl business is much more interesting. So many styles and colors and patterns and when they're so cute and small, how can a girl resist? The little kid even helped me shop and was bummed that I didn't buy more. I also bought her a few outfits when I was shopping for myself on-line. I'm co-chairing this big community event and we have to wear khakis for the day of.. and, well, I don't own any so I went on-line to buy some that I may actually wear again someday. I found some cute ones at the Gap. I couldn't help but click over to baby gap to check out the sales. Got a few hot deals. So she now has 2 pairs of shoes, 5 outfits, 2 pairs of jammies, 2 dolls, a couple of candy machine necklaces, some artwork from her brothers, a thousand board books and some hand me down singamajigs. Yay! Fun stuff. Fun stuff that takes my mind off the big stuff. Yay again. Actually, cheers!
Lastly, tonight I tried out the world's fancy danciest rice cooker. Whiz banger how do you do! It's so awesome!! My girlfriend gave it to me for my birthday. Way better than a vacuum cleaner, I'll tell you that right now! She stopped by yesterday with her little boy. A nice, pleasant surprise as she lives 2 hours away. I read through the instruction booklet and figured out that my rice was prewashed so I used the measuring cup for prewashed rice, added the right amount of water and hit the menu button. To start, it played twinkle twinkle little star. Then it did its thing and about an hour later, ended with another melody that I recognize but can't quite put my finger on. I opened it up and it makes the best rice ever! But I suppose that's kind of the point, right. As soon as the boys sat down to eat, the big kid said "Mom, I think you must be a sushi chef now because this rice tastes so perfect." Yes, thanks to my new fancy, shmancy rice cooker. I've now got 6 months to figure out how to make congee/porridge, which is what our little girl pretty much lives off of. The whole reason my girlfriend got this rice cooker for me is so that I can master congee without really having to master it! She explains that it's sort of like oatmeal, but made with rice. If the boys hadn't asked me at bedtime tonight if I'd make pancakes in the morning, I so would have been all over making congee! Maybe Saturday! So our little girl may have a lot of transitions to make, but hopefully with some good, traditional congee, it'll be one little taste of home that will help her through. Thanks, friend!
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