Shopping and more

Our worker told us to start getting a collection of clothes for the kiddos. We headed off to the store to find some cheap outfits to get the kids through the first couple of days while they are with us until we can go shopping to get more outfits.

Shopping for little ones is hard. Add in that we don't know them, their sizes, what they like, what colors they don't like...that's a lot of pressure. We will be able to take children from the age of 0-10 years old. So that's a ton of different sizes and I don't know how big a 5 year old is. We ended up getting some starter outfits from itty bitty baby sizes all the way through outfits that might fit a seven or eight year old.

Looking at the outfits and trying to imagine the little people that will fit into them blows my mind. I can't believe that God is leading us down this path and that later this year there could be a little guy running/crawling/hanging out with us in these little outfits that we picked out today.

When I think about adoption my heart feels good. I konw

One more class

Sorry it's been slow posting.  We have one more class with our STARS group and then we are done.  We have two more meetings with our social worker and then she writes up our home study and we can start finding our kids.

Everything is going really well.  We both have been background checked, finger printed, and referenced three times over.  We just need health assessments, to finish our child profile and to have our house licensed.

The thing I am nervous about is how/what will Abby do with kids?  She seems interested in them but we haven't had a whole lot of exposure with them.  When we go on walks I will stop and let her watch the neighbor kids play, scream, and chase each other. One time we were walking past a yard and Abby let out a growl. There were no kids around but a snowman.  I think he creeped her out.  Abby growled at the snowman. She did get close with me to inspect it but from the street she did not like it.

I think the biggest thing will be supervision and making adjustments as needed.   Anyone with helpful hints would be greatly appreciated.

Also, we are going to start gathering things that we may need for when the kids come to our house.  We need to go buy two new twin mattresses, a baby monitor and to change out door knobs in our house.  Some of our doors only open from the outside.  Our friend Jason found that out while we were playing a game and he was shut into a closet for the whole game.

So a couple small adjustments to the house and we will be good to go.   Thanks for all the support.  Leave us questions, comments, and love~