Shopping with Grandma Shaffer was a lot of fun! We finally made it to Babies R Us, after an hour delay (they didn't open when they said they were going to!) and made a stop at JC Penny too. Then a yummy lunch at our favorite - Sweet Tomatoes! See the picture below for all the cute things we rounded up - plus a beautiful sweater and one of the blankets Grandma Shaffer made!I am keeping the little yellow t-shirt in hope that Leo will be able to wear it on the way home - it has the cutest airplane on it :-)
Alex sent the 14 pound care package off today - oh my, this chlid just may be a bit spoiled... :-) We figure that we will not send another (except maybe Christmas if he's not home yet...)
Here are some things we included:
- Too many clothes - in 3 different sizes, since we don't know how big he is!
- Socks
- a few stuffed animals
- a baby blanket and sweater made by grandma
- a small blanket, which Alex and I slept with all week
- Baby Photo album with pictures of our family - our chinese teacher so nicely translated some labels for the pictures
- A small tape player along with a 60 minute tape of our voices and songs for toddlers, extra batteries and a translated letter to the foster mom asking her to play the tape
- 2 disposible cameras
- Candies for our agency workers who will deliver the box
- Oil of Olay and body lotion for the foster mom
Too much stuff, but I hope it's useful to his foster mom, and hopefully she can keep the clothes for future kids she will foster!
Thanks for all of the comments!
Thanks to Uncle Pete for teaching me to write my name in Chinese - I'm only 30, I guess I should learn, eh? and congratulations Kupers on the birth of their new son!! Steve and Tashia, Sarah and Chris, and Jim and Katy are all next.....
2 comments:
Hi Katie!
Congratulations on adopting Leo - cute announcement! You know I never hear about anything. I didn't even know you and Alex were working on adopting. I hope the last parts of the process go quickly and smoothly. You will have so much fun, one year is right about the time I actually started to have fun with Olivia. Take care and keep us posted. And send me a new email address for you!
Sarah, Tim & Olivia
Spoiling is good, and that's a good collection of things... we have been trying to sleep with a blanket as well, but everytime we wake up, the dog has pirated it... what is this foster mom going to think of us when we send a blanket that smells like a dog?
Good luck... it's fun to FINALLY be able to buy stuff!
Kathy
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