On Friday Melinda turned in almost every last piece of paperwork that was needed. We are waiting for Criminal Background Check forms returned from three family members, our high school and college transcripts and one form from our insurance company. Melinda and I need to finish off our books and do our book reports, but that should be it!
Also yesterday, we used a gift card from a returned Christmas gift to get new curtains for both kids rooms plus curtain rods (and we STILL had $9.58 left on the card due to a massive sale on curtains). We also bought a Mrs. Potato Head to keep Mr. Potato Head company and got a fun floor lamp. We originally wanted overhead canned lights for the playroom, but the quotes came back too high. With the unplanned cost of the landscaping (we were going to wait until late Spring, but it was such an incredible price now) and the creeping costs of all the thousands of little safety things, we decided to cut lights and this was our compromise. It is not as much light, but it is still very cool. We love it.
Next Wednesday Melinda will drive down to Houston to pick up the baby crib from Christi. She will need to leave early Thursday so she can polish up anything that needs last minute touch-ups for the 4:00 PM Home Study!
In case you are new to the blog, it is Home Study that we have been preparing for over these last several months and it is finally here! Getting the home study scheduled basically means you are done with all the preparatory paperwork (which is immense). The Home Study is scheduled for 4 to 6 hours Thursday. They talk with us together and separately and re-inspect our entire house, covering everything that the Health Inspector and Fire Marshals have covered, plus much more.
We have talked with every adoptive / foster family that we know and asked them what all their Home Study covered. Every one of them was different. Of course, there are the questions that we already expect, but there seems to always be curve balls. It appears that most agencies (like Covenant Kids) keep these questions a closely guarded secret.
Today we also picked some audio books and music. I had a bunch of credits I had been saving from Audible.com (a site that I subscribe to for "New York Times" highlights each morning).
For the youngest children, we got an hour long narration of "The Best Known and Loved Mother Goose: A Collection of Favorite Mother Goose Rhymes Set to Music"
For slightly older, over 3 hours of Dr. Seuss!
- "Green Eggs and Ham" read by Jason Alexander
- "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" read by David Hyde Pierce
- "Oh the Thinks You Can Think!" read by Michael McKean
- "I'm Not Going to Get Up Today" read by Jason Alexander
- "Oh Say Can You Say?" read by Michael McKean
- "Fox in Socks" read by David Hyde Pierce
- "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut" read by Michael McKean
- "Hop on Pop" read by David Hyde Pierce
- "Dr. Seuss's ABC" read by Jason Alexander
- "The Cat in the Hat" read by Kelsey Grammer
- "Horton Hears a Who" read by Dustin Hoffman
- "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" read by Walter Matthau
- "Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?" read by John Cleese
- "The Lorax" read by Ted Danson
- "Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories," "Gertrude Mc Fuzz" and "The Big Brag" read by John Lithgow
- "Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose" read by Mercedes McCambridge
- "Horton Hatches the Egg" read by Billy Crystal
- "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" read by Kelsey Grammer
- "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" read by John Lithgow
- "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" read by Michael York
- "Prince Caspian" read by Lynn Redgrave
- "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" read by Derek Jacobi
- "The Silver Chair" read by Jeremy Northam
- "The Horse and His Boy" read by Alex Jennings
- "The Magician's Nephew" read by Kenneth Branagh
- "The Last Battle" read by Patrick Stewart
Plenty of books and music to fill our fun days ahead!
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