Strollers and car seats and carriers! Oh, my!

Yesterday Pete and I braved the wild world of baby stores for our first real shopping adventure. When I mention that I am thinking of buying something for the baby, many people ask, "Have you heard something?" The answer is no, but let me explain.

With an adoption, there is obviously a lot of waiting. In the early "paperwork" stage, there are many milestones to check off. This chunking of time and crossing-off of lists helps to pass the weeks and months along. Do you ever wonder what it looks like to get all of those things in order? Here's a picture of Gayle in all her organizational glory filling out homestudy and dossier documents back in May 2008:

So my point is, once the paperwork has been submitted, your fingers have been printed, and your home and psyche have been evaluated, there really is not a whole lot to do but wait.

We've decided that one of the fun things to help pass the time is to shop! If we buy something for the baby every month or so, we figure that will give us something to look forward to. Plus it will help spread out the costs, which is probably a good thing.

So that brings us to purchase numero uno... a stroller! We weren't really planning on buying a stroller when we went out yesterday, but we found a really nice one on clearance (2008 model) and we had a coupon- the perfect storm for a major purchase! Here's a picture of Gayle trying it out (I'm a natural, right?):