Lots going on..lots to do!

Daren and I just spent a weekend visiting friends and "nesting". On Saturday, we visited some new friends that we met on-line while researching about Kunming. They have a beautiful two-year-old that LOVED playing with Daren. They shared their adoption video with us and allowed us to borrow some great informational books. It was great to meet them and hear all about their experience and to think about all that is to come for us! We pretty much decided that we'll stay in the same hotel in Kunming that they stayed in, The Green Lake Hotel. After that, Daren was a good sport and allowed me to take him to Babies-R-Us to do some gift registry stuff. I actually think he even got into it a bit...testing out the strollers, etc.

I just found out that there are two baby showers planned for Lily, one given by close friends and family and one to be given by my co-workers. We are so fortunate to have so many caring, thoughtful people in our lives to do such things!

On Sunday we went to the the Christening of Baby Claire. We met Claire's parents last year while taking our mandarin classes and have fast become good friends. Rob and Carole brought home Claire from China in early June and she is such a cutie. Her big sister Caitlin is also a real cutie and such a helpful, good big sister! Rob and Carole have given us a lot of good China travel advice and are letting us borrow a lot of good baby travel gear for our trip. Sunday afternoon we pulled a lot more baby items out of the garage that were given to us by Cindy. We cleaned them up and put them in Lily's nursery. It's really starting to look like a baby room in there now...we just need to add one baby.

Today we made our doctor's appts. to get our travel medications for the trip (in case we get sick in China...which I hope doesn't happen!) and to have him look over Lily's translated medical information. Since Daren and I go to the same family doctor (that we love), and since he has a background in pediatrics, we've decided to take Lily to the same doctor. He will also prescribe antibiotics and other medications for Lily for us to take to China...just in case.

Anyway, lots going on and lots to do....this month is quite busy so hopefully the time until we travel will just fly by!