GREAT news! We were LID on May 10th. That's 13 days from DTC. Now we await LOA which averages a little over 50 days.
While we wait we're finally able to do some fun stuff! We had a care package sent to Macey. (Photos below!) She should be getting it any day now and oh how I wish I could be there to see her receive what is probably her first gift ever! I'm sure some of the stuff, the clothes and whatnot, will not be at all exciting to her but I bet she'll love the candy and the toy. The package includes a couple of outfits, a pair of shoes, some hair clips, a toy, a bag of candy, a disposable camera and a photo album of us. It's so crazy to think she'll be getting her first glimpse of us, her forever family, any day now. I'm sure she won't totally comprehend it, but I hope in the coming months she'll be able to have a better understanding of who we are and that she'll get to come live with us. We are now Mommy and Baba to her.
The disposable camera that's included in the package is for Macey's Nanny's to use to take pictures of Macey with her little friends, of some of the nannies, maybe of her bed, the activity room, you name it. It will be important for her to have those memories and images to help her transition from her old life into her new life. Her new and improved life, I should say! Those pictures will also be unbelievably powerful for her to reflect upon later in life. I hope she'll look at them and be as thankful as I am when I look at photos of myself with a foster mother. There isn't a time in my 39 years when I haven't looked at a photo of me in the hospital or foster home and thought anything other than "Wow, I'm so lucky." Especially since I was born in 1973.
We also sent an assortment of donations to the orphanage. We sent some clothes, shoes, pajamas, underwear, socks, lollipops, you name it. We also sent quite a few cases of formula, which turned out to cost more to ship than what they're probably worth but we aren't sure how we could have otherwise gotten formula to them as part of the donation.
It feels great to be where we're at. Macey will start getting to know us any day now. And on our end, we're really starting to ramp up our Macey preparedness. I've been buying some clothes. I wasn't so sure about it early on, but now I'm having fun. Girls = outfits! Much different than boys. Boys = jeans, sweats, long sleeve t-shirts and short sleeve t-shirts... mix, match, mix and match some more! Also easy to buy in bulk. I wasn't too into the girly outfit business to begin with, but I've since found my stride. I still have a long way to go to complete her wardrobe, and thankfully, a lot of friends to help me supplement, which will be key considering we won't really know what size she is until we, gulp, meet her!
We're also slowly working on Macey's room, but first have to come up with a knock your socks off plan for the boys' room. They'll be moving into what is now our guest room and Macey will have their old room. I don't want them to feel like they had to move out of their room to give it to Macey, and instead want them to be so pumped about their new room that they can't wait to move out of the old one. Hence the need for a knock your socks off plan. I have a couple of ideas such as a built-in reading nook for our budding bookworm, or a secret hideout for the little ninja. I just need to figure out the paint color and overall theme. Right now they have a really lame attempt at a super hero room. I'm sure they would love a real super hero room but 4 small stretched canvas vintage super hero magazine covers do not make a cool little boy super hero room. Our big kid is really into Super Mario, Sonic and Angry Birds. The little guy is just wrapping up his super hero obsession. I'm thinking maybe cool paint with removable decals will be the way to go. Better get busy on Pinterest (which btw, I still have no idea how it works!) to get it figured out so I can begin the execution phase.
See folks, I promised you puppies and rainbows!
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