So we have spent several of the last few days mindlessly wandering the aisles at Target and Walmart and looking at all of the baby stuff trying to decide what two one year old children need. You would think I would know this stuff. It's not like these are our first kids. But for the life of me, I have early childhood amnesia.

It appears that Chris and I have become dumber since the last time we had a small child. This is probably not a good sign since we now will have two small children.

We spent a decent amount of time looking at the endless wall of sippy cups and trying to figure out what would be best. Baby food, formula, rice cereal, and those puffy snacks that taste like cardboard but kids seem to love. We've also talked to several families who have traveled and are home and basically pumped as much info. as we could out of them on what to expect.

Since we don't have any information as to how tall or how much our kids weigh, we have decided to go the safe route and get size 3 diapers. They cover a good range, and hopefully our kids fall into that range. We are bringing several different sizes of clothing and shoes, and are trying to figure out how it will all fit into 4 suitcases. Chris wants to pretty much bring the kitchen sink. Okay, not really. But he does want to bring one of those things that plugs into the wall and boils water and cooks things like oatmeal and rice, and ramen. And then of course, he wants to bring all of those types of food stuff with.

It sounds like we may end up at a hotel that is not near the embassy or supermarket area. So we will have to taxi anywhere we need to go, and getting groceries and items we may need becomes a lot trickier. (Especially since we don't speak French, and most of the people there don't speak English.) So, we are going to try and bring most of the things that we think we will need. If anyone has some great ideas on what we should bring, please, pretty please, let us know.

Still hoping to get out of the USA by Sunday. But we will have to see what happens with our visas to get into country. Oh.my.word. It's finally happening. After 21 months in the adoption process (not all in this program) we are finally bringing our children home.