What a week! I had a trip to Anaheim to speak at the Alliance 2009 conference (Oracle Higher Education). Great trip, but a little nerve racking to leave knowing that the baby is due soon.
Britnei had an appointment on Thursday, things went very well. They had some tests to do (cultures, etc.) so she had a "full" exam. The doctor told her she is 2 cm dilated. Certainly not a sign that the baby will be here tomorrow, but a sign that things have started to move along and that we are certainly in the home stretch.
Thursday afternoon Todd and I had our meeting with Shannon, our adoption case worker. She was wonderful, and made us both feel very comfortable with the process. She asked a lot of questions, had a lot of forms to complete, and after 4 hours we both feel like we did a great job expressing to her why we want to be parents. I found some of the questions very hard to answer, but there was no real 'right' answer... Hopefully she found us suitable candidates and will quickly turn around our paperwork. She meets with Britnei next. Once that is done and the baby is born Shannon will continue to monitor us monthly and make a final report to the Court after 6 months. At that time the adoption will be finalized.
Though baby being born is the BIG event, our work does not stop there, but it is the #1 priority on our minds right now. Todd did an amazing job getting the nursery ready while I was gone. We sold the full size bed we had in there (thanks Craigslist!) and he put the bassinette into the room for now. We are still having a little challenge with the crib/changing table situation. Babies R Us discontinued our collection, but will not sell us the dresser we wanted. They are telling us it was due to quality (lead) issues, but the manufacturer is telling us something else. I am a little fed up, and not having great success finding something else we like of course. Small problems to have in the grand scheme of things I realize, but annoying none the less.
The next 2 weeks are insane for me at work, hopefully this little guy doesn't decide to come out early. Time will tell!
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