Poor, Poor, Papa...

Papa tangled in cords

More prep for the home study!  Well, another child means another room needed for keeping said child...which means Ken's office/music room is officially bye-bye.  Not that he gave it up begrudgingly (sweet, wonderful man that he is!), but the part that was a struggle was going through all of the stuff that needed to be relocated.  Hard drives and motherboards and tangled chords, oh my!  My guy is a collector of all things techy, so the good news is that he found LOTS of good garage sale fodder in all of his stuff.  And hey, what we sell means adoption money, but equally important is that we don't have to find space to store it. :)  Don't worry, I'm doing my share of pitching of clearing out and making garage sale sacrifices, as well, to be fair!  Of course you could hardly call it a "sacrifice" compared to what we are gaining... won't she be so cute peeking over the edge of that crib at us?????  :)  And by the way, the music and computer things are not all gone... we now have a drum set, etc., etc. set in our master bedroom...

Sweet Cheeks on the train with wonderful Blue Sippy

Oh, the adventures that await you, Green Sippy!

On another note we made a trip down to REI today, almost entirely to look for sippies.  Yes, I know Target carries them, too, but we found the cutest Nalgene sippy there when we were waiting for Mikhail to come home and thought how cute he'd be hiking with us with his own little hiking bottle like ours.  Little did we know that first night we received custody of our boy and whisked him away on the Trans-Siberian Express, that blue sippy would become one of the greatest forms of entertainment for all three of us.  The idea of full access to his own little pint-sized, spill-proof water source was just too good to be true!  Blue sippy barely left his sight until we got home and he opened the cabinet to reveal a whole HERD of sippies all just for him!  Anyway, we felt the need to repeat the REI trip in hopes of finding just the right sippy for little Miss Ana.  Yes, I know it's green and green is my favorite color, and yes, there was a pink one to choose from too, but honest, we let Mikhail pick.  And no, I wasn't disappointed.  Oh, how I can't wait to watch her enjoy Green Sippy!