Shower!

There was a shower for us last weekend and we now have lots of great stuff - very cute clothes, toys, books, etc. Everybody was so nice and sounds like they can't wait to meet our little Will. His bedroom is getting full - it's starting to look like a little kid's room. Tad is having a hard time not using the softie that my parents gave him -he says that he thinks he should "break it in." As for me, see that little red container by the bookcase? That's all bath toys and you how much I value my 2 hour baths -I think that might have to change in the near future!

We showed the video to our families too and everyone is excited to meet him. We are/were worried because when they were calling his name in the video he didn't seem to be paying attention, but my sisters tell me their kids do this all the time and they hear just fine. We'll see. The doctor that we had review the video says it is hard to tell from it whether or not he has a hearing problem or if he is just delayed in language as is typical for children in orphanages. I guess we just have to wait and see and hope for the best.

We are of course STILL waiting to hear when we go. In the meantime, we found out that our homestudy is expiring, so now we have to get all that updated. We also need fingerprints for the state of MN (because they can't use the ones we already did for the US government -of course they can't, that would be too easy and cost effective) so we got fingerprints done. We also have to go to immigration on Monday morning to try to get them to let us get our fingerprints taken again for the US government (so even though we just this week had them taken for the state, now the state can't share those with the federal) because they will expire in December when we are (hopefully) in Albania. If they expire, we'd be stuck in Albania because the child we've adopted we couldn't bring home. Here's the catch, since they aren't expired yet, they don't want to do the fingerprinting until they are expired, and they aren't quite getting the fact that we won't be here when they do expire. They also say that fingerprints don't change, but that they expire after one year - it makes me wonder how they convict people on fingerprint evidence years after the crime, but I guess I have enough to worry about without starting on that.

Where's our little boy? We've got the room, the clothes, the toys, the blankets, the car seats, the little plates, cups & silverware -now we need the baby! We are so impatient to get him here and help him get settled in and get any help he needs for his eyes & hearing. I hope he likes us!