Late last week we received our FBI fingerprinting appointment letters. This is the next step after filing the I-600A form. Our appointments are now scheduled for July 14th. One bit of good news is that Grandmother won't have to have her prints done after all. It seems that people over 70 are exempt from the FBI fingerprinting requirement. It's nice that they had the sense to realize that a 97-year old woman is not a threat!!
As you can imagine, Rob and I are beside ourselves with extreme excitement mixed with a little nervousness. The kids will be arriving on Tuesday so this weekend we did some last minute shopping. We aren't exactly sure what sizes Olegs and Kristine are so we only bought a couple of clothing items like socks, underwear and some cute pajamas for the first night. We bought other things too like bed linens and toothbrushes, hairbrushes & combs, etc. We also made sure to pick up some stickers and markers so we can make a fancy welcome poster to take with us to the airport. We're taking some toys with us to the airport to give to them right away too. Rob picked out a soccer ball for Olegs and I found a cute plush bear (the kind you can write on and wash off....those markers better wash off :-)) for Kristine. We had a couple of Target gift cards given to us by some of our good friends (thank you SO much guys!!).
The next stop was the grocery store. We were fortunate to have a Publix gift card donated to us as well (you know who you are...thank you!!!). I went through each aisle looking at almost every single product wondering if they might like it. After hearing from other adoptive parents, we know that fruit will be a big hit so I bought lots of bananas, grapes, etc. We were told not to be alarmed if we give them an apple and they eat the entire core!! I'm glad they warned us about that because I would DEFINITELY be alarmed!!! HA! We also got chicken and pork chops to cook out on the grill. From what we've heard it sounds like we'll be safe if we just don't use too many strong spices or heavy sauces. I also got some fruit rollups and frozen fruit pops which I hope they'll like. We'll go back again when they're here so they can pick out some things they like.
I feel so excited...it brings back the days when I believed in Santa and couldn't wait until Christmas morning (that is, until my sweet older sister crushed my dreams by telling me the truth when I was 8-years old....I've long since forgiven her but it's still fun give her a hard time about it!! :-)). As Rob and I have said many times, we're just gonna take things as they come. Our only real plan is to have lots of fun, love on these two little people and savor the next four weeks.
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