After writing reams of paper to share our autobiographies with the agency, days of training and hours of interviews, you'd think we felt ready for this parenthood thing. We decorated a nursery, bought and counted diapers and bottles until our heads were spinning, and stocked the shelves with books and the bins with soft toys. Still, only one true test would let us know that our little ones would find their way to us and be happy when they got here...toddlers!
Yesterday was a very funny day. I picked up my parents from Houston at the airport and we're looking forward to a great, late Fall weekend with them in clear-sky Colorado. We were back at home, relaxing and getting them used to the altitude, when Josh's cousin called from the airport, stranded, with two toddlers in tow. Right about 3:00, our neighbor came over to hide in a room upstairs and do a phone interview in the quiet of our house while a sitter watched the most adorable neighbors in her house next door.
So, by 4:00 pm, we had a dad sleeping in the basement, a neighbor chatting with us on the couch and a family of four ringing the doorbell for a surprise afternoon playdate. Plan, Schman! It was really awesome. In the midst of the excitement, the agency was letting us know that they are still working with a couple of birth mothers who haven't made any decisions yet, but who are due in December!
I think we and all of our house guests sailed through the chaos of the afternoon. Thank goodness we never got around to raking up all the leaves in the backyard.
There was a family concert in the music room by early evening and the final test on our nursery's preparedness came just before our cousins departed to return to the airport and try to get to another family gathering in Kentucky.
At first, Averie was not pleased with the lack of enough International People Puzzle pieces to make their way around the circle rug (or grass as it's now known). But, she improvised and it seems we had all the parts required to encircle her in a good time in that cozy, love-filled kid room.
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| I loved the transformation of the circle from people holding hands to music shaker eggs to stuffed animals to books to one happy kiddo! |
