Adoption update

We had our final home study visit on Monday evening and it went really well! We passed with flying colors. Our adoption specialist should have our completed home study to us by the end of the month -- yay! We're still on track to submit our dossier to Ethiopia by the end of the year. Once that is submitted, we will officially be 'paper pregnant' and the waiting begins.

In the meantime, we'll be reading more about Ethiopia, Mark will be experimenting with Ethiopian recipes, and we'll continue to do a few projects around the house. We're looking forward to picking up furniture for the baby's room from my sister at Christmas time. (Thanks, Heidi and Thinh!) Tonight, Mark framed two photos of giraffes from our trip to the Indy zoo. We'll hang them in the baby's room. Our theme is giraffes/jungle animals. We've discovered that this is a very popular theme for infant rooms! We're looking forward to being able to put it all together after the holidays.