Cribs and strollers and highchairs, oh my!

We had a very exciting day today! We ordered the crib, armoire and changing table. They will take a couple of weeks to arrive. We also bought the stroller. They had a matching highchair so we HAD to get that too. It took us awhile to figure out how to put the stroller together but we did it. It also took me awhile to figure out the straps. There were so many and I couldn't figure out how they all fit together. Mario the bear was quite gracious allowing me to practice on him. I figured I better get it worked out now before Ming gets here. I'd hate to be fumbling with the straps with her giving me one of those "you have no idea what you're doing" looks. We had so much fun. I was wishing we had the camcorder set up taping us trying to figure out how to put the stroller together. That would have been hysterical to watch later. I can't wait until Ming is here to use everything.

Yet another anniversary

Today is yet another anniversary we never thought we'd be marking. We have officially been waiting 15 months today from LID. How depressing! We really thought we'd have our little Ming home by September of last year. Now I think we'll be lucky if we have her home by this September.

On a positive note, tomorrow is crib buying day. We're ordering the crib, armoire and changing table we picked out last week. It takes about 2 weeks to arrive. We're hoping we can get the painting done before it arrives. I'm so excited! I've been giddy all week thinking about getting a crib. I'm glad we waited as long as we did to start the nursery. I think it would have been depressing to walk past an empty nursery for a year and a half. This seems to be the perfect time for us to start getting Ming's room ready for her. Hopefully by the time everything is fixed up, we'll only have 2-3 more months to wait.

Ming's Nursery

We've held off on even thinking about starting the nursery since the wait was so long. Now that we're in the home stretch, we finally went looking for furniture last weekend. We picked out Ming's crib, changing table and armoire set. We also chose a stroller. It's the blue one in the picture. We're going back this weekend to order them. We can't wait!

Referrals

The CCAA hasn't updated their website yet but apparently referrals are on the way and they go up to October 24. That's only 11 days so it isn't great but there were rumors last week that they were only going to get up to the 19th or 21st so it could be worse. If they continue at this pace and don't slow down any further, we could still get our referral in June or July. We have 46 LID days ahead of us. We're in the home stretch!