Log In Date

We finally did get an official Log In Date from the CCAA. It is 10/10/2008 which is a week later than I had hoped, but I think I remember there being a holiday in China at the beginning of October so maybe that is why it was delayed. We are hoping for a letter of approval by Christmas and to travel by the beginning of February. It depends on how quickly our paperwork is approved.

Our other interesting event happened yesterday as I was comparing the Chinese documents to the English translations of Nora's medical and history reports. Turns out that she has two different birthdates listed one is January 26, and the other is January 16. There was an error in translation and she was actually born of the 16. We are glad that we caught this before we went to China and had discrepancies for passports etc. Looks like we can resolve it with a notarized letter stating the error and the actual birthday. (Sorry Owen, looks like she won't share the date after all!)

Liam is beside himself with excitement waiting for his sister. Today I mentioned that I saw a toddler bed on sale and maybe we should have a look. Well he got his shoes on and opened the garage door and was so so so excited. We got there and he was ahead of me going "there it is - there it is" I said it couldn't be because we were in the baby section, well he was right. He found this bed in about 2 minutes in a giant Kmart. He and Ryan carried it up to HIS room and read the directions as a bedtime story tonight. He is finally settling on Nora (not his choice) and we are no longer going through the mounds of suggestions which has included Bindi (as in the jungle girl), Molly (just change yours to Mary Jane, Mom), Kafryn among so many others I can't remember. He decided that Pumpkin was a Halloween name for our dog and that we should change it to Fig Newton, (Mom, what IS a newton?)

Darren has been potty training and has a huge fascination with stickers which has helped the process incredibly. He is absolutely adorable and has been dragging around his helium ghost balloon for over a week now. It has a clothespin end that he attaches to the potty when he goes and to his tall boy chair to eat. He walks around saying 'boo' and "go". He had it attached to a rubber boot today and that sent him into a fit of giggles. He also spent his time while I was making lunch unboxing the Christmas candle lights that I put in the windows and plugging them in the dining room sockets. He was using the tine on the plug end to pry the plastic coverings off...hmmm He is always very busy and very quiet. I find things tucked into places very carefully.