it's off!

Our i800 approval is off to China! We did get our approval late Friday afternoon. We had one more mail delivery situation that we had to work out at about 5:00 pm. But in the end, we were able to email a copy of the "missing in the action" form that needed to be sent with our i800. It was supposed to be delivered to our adoption agency by noon on Friday but never got there. Thank goodness for the reliability of email!

So, we're on our very last waiting time. We should have our Travel Approval in 2-4 weeks. There is a chance that we could get it very soon because our LOC is already in China. Oh, wouldn't it be nice to be on the short end of the expected wait. That hasn't happened once in the last 13 months so I won't be holding my breath. But there is a possibility!

The beds: We finally got the bed situation arranged for Nathan and Caleb's room. We were going to just use the white bunk beds that used to be for the girls but I just thought white was too girly for a boy's room. We had been looking for a few months at beds and were quite shocked at how expensive simple twin beds are (especially when you are buying two). I didn't want to buy new beds b/c the only ones we could afford were the cheap ones and I knew they wouldn't last through two teenage boys. I ended up finding a really nice handmade oak bed that matches Nathan's original bed pretty well. It was another big shuffle of furniture but ended up being such a good deal. We got rid of the bunk beds and moved Nathan's original bed (that Kara had been using) into the boys' room. We bought the oak bed from a really skilled wood maker that had made the bed for his son years ago. Then we had my parents bring their twin trundle bed over for Kara to use. Then, to top it all off, Andy's parents bought matching Star Wars comforters for the boys. Nathan was beyond excited. So we celebrated with him...