I like orange :)

Happy Sunday!!! Just a few fun things to share today:

1. This website's got me wanting a girl real bad today, it's got all sorts of braiding styles and hair-conditioning tips I can't WAIT to try :) (PS-there are a hundred things that make me want a boy too, so I don't feel bad sharing one in one direction)

2. I got my birthday present from my sisters last week. It made me cry like a crazy person right in front of our apartment mail room :) It's a banner that keeps track of the months we'll spend waiting for our baby. My sisters are going to send me one month's worth of flags in the mail every month until we get our baby home. Isn't that the sweetest thing you've ever even conceived of in your mind?!?! I think it's perfect!! I'm so thankful...


3. I've been working on a little baby blanket for like 2.5 months, and it's finally finished!!! Yaaayyy!!! It's like 3ft by 3ft, just the right size for wrapping up and cuddlin' if you ask me :)

4. I've been looking on the blogs of people who have been going to meet their children recently, following the two-visit schedule, and it seems like they've been getting 3 one-hour visits with their children during the first week, not counting seeing them across the room in court, which may or may not be the last sighting of the trip. Blech. I'm starting to understand how difficult this process is going to be at the end, and it hurts my heart. I AM stoked about traveling twice to Ethiopia though. This week I bought a book to help me learn Amharic, which I do intend to do a good bit of, and we looked at a book that had some must-see spots in Ethiopia and we're now even more pumped if that's possible!!!

Boy or girl????

So, I made a tally last night off of the unofficial list, and found that for families in the last two years that requested "either gender", there was about a 4:1 boy:girl referral ratio. There's clearly a high possibility we'll be bringing home a boy (our little Habibi!!), but the girls are still holding strong there at 1/5 (oh, my sweet Habibti!!). It's funny cause if I were pregnant, I think I'd definitely want to know the baby's gender, I've never been much good at waiting on surprises if there's the option not to. But adoption has it's own set of rules, and we'll have to wait till almost the very end to know. It's all gravy though, cause honestly I just happen to like gender neutral colors (green and aqua and orange and yellow) better than your traditional blue and pink (though I do like a good peach), and more importantly, we feel really confident that we'll be equally as excited about either gender. I've even realized that (at least this time) if we'd requested one or the other it might have driven me crazy, I'd have been doubting the choice the whole time. This way it's not up to me, which is better (for me) :) But... I still can't wait to know who you are, my sweet!!!