With the imminent arrival of Elizabeth Li we’ve begun the traditional nesting process. Unlike other families in our adoption group who had a crib before putting in their paperwork, we are just getting around to thinking about those kinds of things. Catherine and Christine went out Friday afternoon to register for a variety of things we need, like baby gates in triplicate, car seats in duplicate and many other items most of which make my head spin when I start to think about them.
Our friend and artist Sara Lee comes on the 29th to begin the mural painting. She leaves on the 1st so my guess is we’ll all be working a few extra hours getting the babies room ready for furniture. As part of the prep work we had the room’s windows restored and made lead safe. No colors have been picked out yet but there is talk of an animal scene possibly involving at least one naked mole rat wearing lederhosen. I’ll let Catherine explain that one.
In addition to working on the Lili’s room in the last 6 months, we’ve had our front porch rebuilt – it looks great, new storm windows through-out the house, a brand-new wood stove insert because our fireplace was just not safe, all the double-hung windows in the house either tuned or restored, 3 new storm doors are being built for us, the bay window on the side of our house raised, stabilized, braced, and a new surround built for it, plus who knows what else. It seems new workmen show up at our house on a weekly basis and checks fly out of our checking account almost as fast.
The online nesting is proceeding as well. The blog is up and seems stable. Everyone should be able to post comments although you do have to register in order to do so. If you can’t post, please let me know. We’ll be adding new features and other exciting things, as soon as we figure out how to do so, at least until we leave for China. Your thoughts and suggestions are welcome. Ciao.
Even though I have my own blog, I had to have a personal tutorial from Thom to figure out how to login. But at last, I can say congratulations from your family in Brooklyn! We are dying to meet Lili…so we can’t even imagine how you are feeling. Thanks for starting the blog so that we can follow your journey.