We are KNEE DEEP into it NOW

These past few months have been nothing short of WILD. We have started to tell more friends and family of our decisions to grow our family through adoption from Taiwan again. The outpour of support is amazing.

We are doing all the paperwork and can't believe we need to do so much again since we already went through it - somewhere in my little mind I thought it was going to be somewhat like an EZ pass to dossier document and well not so much :)

I have also noticed that having an almost 4 year old at home makes getting the paperwork ready a much longer process - I mean last time I had it all done in like 3 weeks I'm on the 2nd full month and I still have a few things left to do but not much :)

This past weekend we cleaned out what will be the babies room - ooooooo do we have one curious little SOphie she is so excited and talking about it a lot and also drawing pictures of her family that INCLUDES the new child as a little girl the size of a polly pocket named baby emma! She has been saying this since the bvery beginning. I keep trying to explain to her we don't know if it will be a girl or a boy but she says NO MAMA it will be a sister named Emma.

Mind you, Emma was never a name that made our list but of course now we are considering it if by chance it is a girl :)

So exciting going through thsi with her and allowing her to see what the process is like and what happens. It is also cool for her to see the excitement and the preparations - she keeps asking - did I wear these when I was a baby, did you do this when you came to taiwan to get me mommy? will you go a big fast train to get my sister (oh lord!) I correct her that yes we will travel on a fast train to get your BROTHER or SISTER...she is something else.

It is becoming very real now. THe feelings of what are we doing? are starting, the excitment, the wait and everything is starting to get to me.

I am such a control freak that this not knowing boy or girl is really exciting but driving me crazy!@ I had SOphie's name picked out, room painted, full wardrobe, toys etc already done and that helped me keep busy during the wait - but I guess I have SOphie to keep me busy and lord knows she certainly does.

Until next time...