The Babies' Room!

Here's the nursery! We have had so much fun decorating the room!In the corner above the glider we also hung these beautiful "balls" of lights. They are Christmas lights that we found at Frankenmuth, when we went there for our 8th anniversay last December. We hung 4 of them. Blue, orange, multi-colored and dark pink! The multi-colored one sparkes! I think the Alex and Kimi are going to love them! The only things that we are missing are bookshelves above each bed, one on the floor, a toy box, and some babies!!!

We are expecting a letter of invitation [to travel] from Kazakhstan, sometime in the next 2 months or so. We are so excited! I can only imagine, right now, how we will feel the day we get to meet him! It is going to be amazing!!! See the doll in Alex's crib? That is a little Mongolian Boy. We also found him at Frankenmuth, where we of course were looking for everything Kazak! We were wandering around the doll store looking for Asian dolls when I saw him! I just knew he was Kazak...he has the big cheeks! The "nurse" at the counter said "her" name was Mongolia... After we bought "her" we said to one another, "Mongolia is not a name!" So we named "her" Lily. When we returned home, I was showing "her" to Tissiana on the website (we frequently show each other stuff on line while we are on the phone), Tissiana suddenly says, "Its a boy!" We were mortified, as if he was alive or something, and we had mis-judged his gender! We searched online but couldn't find a Kazak name that we liked! Maybe that is because we can't pronounce any of them!We finally decided to call him Ivan, until we find out Alex's Kazak name, then we will rename HIM! Ha!

Because the room was done before we received the news that Kazakhstan was only allowing the adoption of one un-related child at a time, we will be leaving Kimi's bed ready for her until she comes home. Originally we thought we would be able to go get Kimi about 6-8 months after Alex came home, but recently the referrals have been taking 11-12 months from the day the Dossier logs in, in China, to referral. We are sad about that, but we think once Alex is home later this summer, time will fly! Because we will be having so much fun with him!