Our crib bedding

This is the crib bedding that we have picked out-- We will be doing colors of cream, celery green and a nice soft brown. We hope to include lots of woodsy creatures like deer, birds and squirrels!

Our adoption story

On Saturday, January 31st, Brian and I handed in our paperwork for our adoption. This means that we are officially on the waiting list for our baby! It is a very exciting time for us, and we have a lot of work to do to get ready to be parents for the first time. After many bends in the road that we are taking to parenthood, we have decided to adopt a baby from Japan. We don't know exactly when we will get the phone call, it could be a couple of months or it could be a year. The Japan program with our agency is very unique and there are fewer than 20 families waiting to be matched with infants. We have submitted a "dear birthmother" letter and a photo album that we feel represents us... we hope(!) and it will be hand carried to Japan by a liason. Our liason "Taz" will work with the "bio moms" to make the perfect match. When the match is made, and the baby is born, we wil be notified by phone. At that point, we will need to get ready to travel to Japan within 3-4 weeks to pick up the baby. Our trip to Japan will be about 10-14 days-- WOW!

So at this point, we are just WAITING! it seems like we've been waiting for a long time already, so what's a few more months? We will be working on getting the baby's room ready, because time will be short once we get our call. We won't know if it is a boy or a girl until after the birth-- so we are making plans for gender neutral decorating! We have chosen two girl names and two boy names- the bio mom will choose the name for us. My mom is really hoping for twins-- so we'll see!

We are so excited to be at this point, and will try really hard to not bore everyone with our details!